San Angelo, TX Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Sec. 031(a) makes curbside recycling part of the mandatory residential collection package: every residential customer inside the city limits must subscribe to the commercial solid waste and recyclables service under contract with the city, and the containers used, including the recycling cart, must be the ones the contracted provider supplies. Customers must store both the solid waste and recyclables carts inside a garage, carport or similar structure, or just outside it, and keep them closed so contents cannot scatter or attract insects and rodents. Sec.

031(a)(6) puts the contamination duty squarely on the resident: recyclables placed in the recycling cart must not be contaminated, and if the contracted hauler will not accept the load, the solid waste administrator has discretion to pull the recycling cart from service; reinstating it is also the administrator's call. Placement is time-limited under Sec. on collection day, and must be retrieved by noon the following day. The solid waste administrator, appointed by the city manager under Sec. 002, inspects streets and alleys and issues citations to any customer, firm or corporation that violates these duties, commanding the violator to appear in municipal court within ten days.

Sec. 033 lets the administrator approve a deviation from these placement and storage rules on a case-by-case basis, but no separate recycling permit or opt-out procedure exists in the article; participation rides on the same subscription that covers trash pickup.