Residential recycling in St. Johns County is offered, not mandatory. Fla. Stat. §403.706 puts the duty on the county to run recycling toward the state's 75 percent goal, and the county supplies a single-stream cart, but no ordinance fines a household for skipping it.
Florida's recycling duty runs to the county, not the resident. Fla. Stat. §403.706 makes the governing body of a county responsible for operating solid-waste disposal facilities and implementing recycling programs aimed at the state's 75 percent recycling goal. St. Johns County meets that by providing curbside single-stream recycling through its franchised hauler: paper and flattened cardboard, plastic bottles and jugs, metal cans, and glass go loose and unbagged into one cart, collected on the household's scheduled day. Participation is voluntary for residents, so no code officer cites you for putting a bottle in the trash. Contaminating the cart with bagged trash or non-recyclables, though, gets it left at the curb.
Residential recycling is voluntary, so skipping it is not a violation. Putting bagged garbage, food waste, or non-recyclables in the cart contaminates the load and results in the cart being left uncollected until corrected.
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