Hutto, TX Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

Section 24.03.006 reaches beyond ordinary garbage to name recycling materials specifically: it is unlawful for any person or business, except a duly authorized city agent or employee, the owner disposing of his or her own waste, or a person who has contracted with the city or received a city license, to handle or remove garbage, rubbish, recycling materials, or solid waste from any refuse container or other receptacle. The section sits inside Article 24.03, Solid Waste, immediately after the residential and commercial collection rules in §§ 24.03.004 and 24.03.005, and it backs the city's franchise system in § 24.03.007, which makes collecting refuse from Hutto establishments without a city franchise unlawful and sets the franchise fee at ten percent of gross revenues, payable quarterly.

Because § 24.03.015(a) bills every occupied residence for citywide recycling service whether or not the household uses it, the anti-scavenging rule in § 24.03.006 protects the value of that stream for the city's contracted hauler by keeping cans and recyclables intact from curb to truck.