Parma, OH Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

025 makes it illegal to take recyclables that residents have already set out for the City's collection contractor. The ordinance defines "recyclable materials" narrowly: glass bottles and jars, plastic soda bottles and milk, juice, and water jugs, aluminum and tin food and beverage cans, and newspapers, but only when enclosed in a designated recycling container. Anyone other than a City employee, contractor, or agent implementing the curbside program who removes those materials from a public street or alley violates the section, regardless of the item's value; the offense is complete the moment the container is set at the curb for pickup.

025(c) points to the citywide misdemeanor penalty schedule. 01 within the Department of Public Service and staffed by a Recycling Manager, a Recycling Supervisor, and other Council-designated employees. C. Chapter 5311, cooperative apartment corporations, and cluster-home dwellings under Chapter 1156 to the City's recycling and trash-hauling programs, but only after those associations sign an agreement with the City and its hauler, one that also holds the City and hauler harmless for street or road damage caused by servicing the properties.