Lewisville, TX Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

City Code § 12-2 defines the residential recycling system: an 'Acceptable Container' for recyclable materials means 'a city-owned 64-gallon cart,' and a 'Residential customer' is defined as a resident of a single or two-family dwelling, including condominiums and townhomes, that sets out household solid waste in one-way containers or 39-gallon trash cans and recycling in that city-owned 64-gallon cart. Section 12-24 (Residential containers) governs how the cart must be used: all recyclable materials must be placed inside the container, and recycling containers are strictly limited to acceptable recyclable materials as determined by the city, meaning residents cannot use the recycling cart as overflow trash.

on collection day, set out no more than 24 hours before and removed within 24 hours after collection. Section 12-3 separately makes it unlawful to meddle with, pilfer, scatter the contents of, or scavenge materials from a recycling container, and bars placing waste in someone else's residential recycling container without the occupant's consent. Damaging a city-owned recycling cart is its own offense under § 12-24(e), and residents may not remove a city-owned cart from the address to which it is assigned; missing or damaged carts must be reported to the city.