A. It shall be unlawful to dispose of residential or commercial yard debris by commingling yard debris with the garbage or recycling set out at curbside for collection by a service provider(s) under contract with the city.

B. Compostables carts are provided for residential and commercial recycling of compostables and ease of curbside set-out for collection by the city-contracted service provider(s). Compostables will not be accepted for pickup by a city-contracted service provider(s) if placed in plastic bags at curbside, or if the plastic bags containing compostables are placed in other approved containers for collection. Plastic bags are considered a contaminant and are noncompostable. Once the compostables cart is full, approved containers for compostables collection, including plastic or galvanized garbage containers no larger than 32 gallons in size and heavyweight brown paper bags, may be used for overflow volumes of compostables, excluding food scraps. Customer-owned containers used for the collection of overflow volumes of compostables shall be labeled with a durable sticker that clearly identifies the container’s contents as compostables. (Ord. 6367 § 5, 2011; Ord. 6160 § 1, 2008; Ord. 6139 § 1, 2007; Ord. 6069 § 1, 2006; Ord. 6054 § 1, 2006; Ord. 5968 § 1, 2006; Ord. 5622 § 1, 2001.)