Unincorporated Weld County does not mandate recycling; it is voluntary through private haulers and drop-off sites. Greeley's 2025 refuse-service-provider ordinance requires licensed haulers to deliver and report on recycling and food-scrap/yard-trimming collection.
Recycling in the unincorporated county is voluntary; residents use a hauler that offers recycling or take materials to area drop-off sites, and the county publishes a Greeley-area recycling guide. Home-rule Greeley strengthened its rules with Ordinance No. 19, 2025, which renamed its hauler chapter 'refuse service providers' and requires each licensed provider to report annually the specific manner in which trash collection, recycling services and collection of food scraps and yard trimmings have been delivered in compliance with the chapter. The mandate falls on providers to offer and document these services; individual residents are not fined for declining, but the services must be available. Confirm accepted materials with your specific hauler.
Directed at haulers: failing to file the required annual report, or operating without the refuse-service-provider license, is unlawful under Greeley Section 8-373. Unincorporated county recycling is voluntary with no penalty.
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