Under Adams County Ordinance No. 17 (effective Feb 17, 2024), every licensed trash hauler serving unincorporated homes and businesses must offer curbside recycling collection. The county's goal is to raise recycling and diversion from about 16% in 2022 to 40% by 2034.
Ordinance No. 17 requires that any hauler providing regular landfill collection to residential, multi-family or commercial customers in unincorporated Adams County 'shall offer curbside recycling collection services,' at minimum for the materials on the county's Minimum Recyclables List, on a recurring schedule. Haulers must also notify customers annually that recycling service is available. The mandate is on haulers to offer the service; residents are not fined for declining to recycle, but the service must be available. The county adopted this to lift unincorporated recycling and waste-diversion rates from roughly 16% in 2022 toward a 40% target by 2034. Recycling-only or compost-only haulers pay the lowest licensing tier.
Directed at haulers: failing to offer required curbside recycling or to provide annual customer notification violates Ordinance No. 17 and is subject to the ordinance's enforcement and penalty provisions.
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