Pasco County, FL Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

Code of Ordinances Sec. 90-50 requires each licensed hauler to collect all designated program materials placed at curbside in county-approved recycling containers, consistent with the weekly minimum set in Sec. 90-47, which requires haulers to offer and provide curbside recyclable collection at least once per week. Haulers must inspect containers for non-conforming materials and place an educational notice on any container where more than 20 percent of the contents do not conform; that container will not be collected until the resident removes the non-conforming material.

If a customer places significant non-conforming material in their recycling container on three or more occasions, the hauler must notify the county and send the customer a compliance letter, and may eventually request authorization to stop collecting that customer's recycling. Recyclable materials placed at curbside in county-specified containers, or placed in county-owned bins, become the property of the county the moment they are set out. Because of that ownership rule, Sec. 90-50 makes it unlawful for any person to scavenge in, or remove any recyclable materials from, containers set out at curbside or otherwise used to store recyclables for hauler collection; a violator is warned and cited under Sec.

1-6 of the Code. Haulers must also submit an annual recycling education and promotion plan to the county by January 1 each year, distribute promotional and educational recycling materials to customers at least twice annually, and report tonnages delivered to recycling processors by January 30 each year when the county has assigned the hauler ownership of the collected materials.