Sahuarita, AZ Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Mandatory subscription start date
- September 1, 2025
- Recycling collection frequency
- No more than once a week
- Residential service fee
- $22.75/month
- Additional cart fee
- $6.49/month
- Service reinstatement fee
- $50.00
Summary
Every covered Sahuarita residence has had to subscribe to weekly town-contracted waste collection since September 1, 2025, and the contractor collects recycling no more than once a week. Failing to subscribe brings enforcement under STC § 8.05.160.
Effective September 1, 2025, covered residences are required to subscribe to a weekly solid waste collection service provided through a contract with a contractor as awarded by the town council and the residents thereon shall pay the cost of such collection services to the contractor. ... Residential solid waste shall be collected at a minimum once per week, but no more than twice per week. Recycling shall be collected no more than once a week.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4745395; v0 updated 2025-12-08; through 12-08-2025).
Full Breakdown
160. 050(B) for homes with a pre-existing HOA collection contract, until that contract expires, and under (C) for properties of two acres or more that maintain a valid commercial solid waste collection contract. 090: residential solid waste is picked up at least once and no more than twice a week, while recycling is collected no more than once a week, and the contractor may run recycling and trash on the same day. 00 service reinstatement fee if service lapses. 120: the town notifies each responsible party in writing of the subscription requirement, and failure to subscribe is pursued by certified and first-class mail with quarterly reporting to the town manager. 030 to include newsprint, paperboard, wood, metals, plastics, glass and cardboard, subject to the contractor's published acceptable-items list.
Violations & Fines
A responsible party who fails to subscribe to the required weekly collection service, which includes recycling collection, faces enforcement under STC § 8.05.120 and § 8.05.160, beginning with certified-mail notice and escalating through the town manager on a quarterly basis; a service reinstatement fee of $50.00 applies once collection resumes.
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