Broome County, NY Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

Section 317-28 of the Mandatory Source Separation Law carves out a separate rule for multifamily and lodging properties that don't get individual curbside pickup. Apartment complexes, condominium complexes, cooperative apartments, hotels, motels, and bungalow or resort colonies must establish a private dropoff program so residents and guests can source-separate recyclables for pickup and transport to a recycling facility. The duty to provide and maintain that dropoff falls on the building's owner or manager, who must keep it in a neat and sanitary condition and stocked to receive every category of recyclable material the county requires under section 317-26, from paper and glass to metals and plastics.

Where a condominium association runs the property, the association itself takes on that maintenance responsibility rather than any individual unit owner. Tenants and residents still carry their own duty: it's on them to separate designated recyclables from their household trash and deposit them at the dropoff the way the property's management directs. This section sits inside the same Article IV that makes source separation mandatory countywide, so a landlord who skips the dropoff program, or lets it become unsanitary or unusable, is out of compliance with the same law that penalizes any other generator's failure to separate recyclables.