Everett, WA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Applies to
- apartments/condos/trailer parks, 5+ units
- Service level
- matches single-family yard waste program
- Cost
- extra/auxiliary, additional charge
- Jurisdiction
- City of Everett, Snohomish County WA
- Source
- EMC 8.14.040
Summary
Everett requires franchised haulers to offer yard debris pickup to apartment buildings, condos, and trailer parks with five or more units, matching the single-family program, but it's an extra, additional-cost service, not free.
Collection of yard debris will be made available to apartment buildings, condominiums, and trailer parks with five or more units. Program material, collection schedules, and services will be consistent with the Everett single family yard waste recycling program. Service providers will use the term yard debris in educational materials promoting this service. Collection of yard debris will be an extra or auxiliary service with an additional cost to the property owners.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4194-26, passed July 29, 2026).
Full Breakdown
Everett requires its franchised recycling haulers to make yard debris collection available to multifamily properties, apartment buildings, condominiums, and trailer parks, with five or more units, matching the schedule and materials of the city's single-family yard waste program. It is not automatically bundled into base garbage or recycling service: EMC 8.14.040 classifies it as an extra, auxiliary service that carries an additional charge to the property owner. Properties under five units fall outside this specific mandate. Snohomish County, Washington and neighboring cities run comparable hauler-franchise yard waste programs under state solid-waste law, but this section governs only inside Everett city limits.
Violations & Fines
The chapter sets no fine: it's a service standard, not a citable offense. Disputes over yard debris service levels go through the hauler and the city's recycling program review, not code enforcement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Everett collect yard debris for free at apartment complexes?
Do single-family homes in Everett get yard debris pickup too?
Sources & Official References
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