Okaloosa County, FL Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

706(2)(a) obligates every Florida county, Okaloosa included, to implement a recyclable materials recycling program with escalating statewide goals: 40 percent recycled by December 31, 2012, climbing to 50 percent in 2014, 60 percent in 2016, 70 percent in 2018, and 75 percent by December 31, 2020, with counties and municipalities encouraged to cooperate on joint programs. Subsection (2)(b) separately requires each county to run a program specifically for recycling construction and demolition debris. Subsection (2)(c) reaches new development: any multifamily residential or commercial property that received its certificate of occupancy on or after July 1, 2012, must provide adequate space and a receptacle for tenant and owner recycling, though this only applies where the county already has an established recycling program supplying receptacles and regular pickup.

Subsection (2)(f) requires programs to recover a significant share of at least four listed materials before disposal: newspaper, aluminum cans, steel cans, glass, plastic bottles, cardboard, office paper, and yard trash. Okaloosa County meets the mandate through its own franchised residential recyclable material collection service under County Code § 11-191(c), which runs weekly and, where possible, on the same day as regular garbage pickup, collecting newspapers, cardboard, mixed paper, aluminum and tin cans, plastics marked SPI codes 1 through 7, glass, and polycoated cartons.