Miramar, FL Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Section 18-76 of Chapter 18, Article IV governs the city's curbside recycling program for single-family homes and multi-family buildings that receive curbside service. The accepted recycling stream is limited to newspapers; clear, brown and green glass; aluminum beverage containers; tin cans; plastics numbered 1, 2 and 3 such as two-liter bottles, milk jugs, and shampoo or detergent bottles; and non-waxed cardboard boxes. Material outside that list, along with anything the code separately defines as Recycling Contaminates, does not belong in the bin. Recyclable Materials must be segregated from garbage and other waste and placed in the city-issued Recycling Bins or Roll Carts, and set out curbside or in a designated area only on the collection day the city or its Franchise Hauler has scheduled; recyclables put out under a Special Collection Service outside the normal schedule are billed separately by the hauler.

The section also protects the material once it is placed for pickup: it is a violation of Article IV for any person, firm or corporation not authorized by the city to collect or remove recycling that has been set out for the scheduled collection, and Section 18-82 puts enforcement of that scavenging ban in the hands of the appropriate city department. Section 18-76(d) leaves penalties for unauthorized collection or noncompliance with the recycling program 'to the extent permitted by law,' which in practice routes enforcement through the city's general code enforcement process under Chapter 2, Article XI, including fines that can accrue separately for each day a violation continues.