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Mandatory Program: Every establishment covered by the County's multifamily residential definition must provide a recycling program serviced by a permitted hauler or appropriate governmental agency.

Five Minimum Material Categories:

• Newspaper, without plastic delivery bags.
• Clear, green, and brown glass containers.
• Aluminum cans.
• Steel cans.
• Designated PET and HDPE plastic containers.

The property's receiving processor may accept additional recyclables. Confirm the actual approved-material list and sorting instructions before implementing service.

Responsible Party: The property owner is generally liable for failure to provide a compliant recycling program. For condominium and cooperative buildings with qualifying associations, the association bears the responsibility specified by §15-2.2.

Containers and Access: Maintain accessible recycling collection locations and adequate capacity. Review approved site plans, collection areas, and any local placement requirements, particularly for multi-building and high-rise communities.

Applicability: Use the County's multifamily establishment definition and applicable municipal rules. Do not confuse a City's residential-cart threshold with the County recycling mandate.

Miami-Dade Code §15-2.2 · County Multifamily Recycling Guidance

County Code §15-2.2: Failure to provide the required recycling program or approved modified program can trigger the following scheduled civil penalties.

Daily Exposure: Miami-Dade advises that penalties may be assessed daily until compliance is achieved.

Separate Violations: Illegal dumping, unauthorized waste collection, accumulated waste, unsanitary enclosures, blocked collection access, or improper bulk disposal may trigger other enforcement provisions.

Local Enforcement: A municipality may enforce an equivalent or more stringent recycling ordinance. Do not automatically apply the County's penalty schedule to every municipal citation.

Property Management: Document contracts, recycling locations, notices, rejected loads, corrections, and any modified-program approvals.

County Civil Penalty Schedule · Recycling Enforcement Guidance

City of Miami Service: Larger apartment and condominium properties generally require a City-approved commercial waste collection provider.

The City's published pages use different unit thresholds when describing private-hauler eligibility. Properties at the four- or five-unit boundary should obtain written classification confirmation.

Required Authorization: Use a hauler with the applicable City non-exclusive franchise or other authorization for the services performed. Confirm County permitting where applicable.

Separate Recycling: A garbage contract does not by itself demonstrate compliance with the County's required five-material recycling program. Review recycling service, collection frequency, processor acceptance, and container access.

High-Rise Operations: Coordinate trash chutes, recycling rooms, compactors, elevator access, resident signage, and bulk staging. Do not combine separated recyclables with ordinary waste.

City-Approved Commercial Haulers · City Collection Account Eligibility

Miami-Dade Code §15-2.4 permits property-specific modified recycling programs when approved by the County.

Potential alternatives may include:

• Documented self-hauling to a recycling processor.
• Substitution of recyclable materials based on demonstrated waste composition.
• A reduced required-material selection supported by appropriate documentation.
• Qualifying collection and post-collection separation through authorized facilities.

Written Approval Required: A community may not independently eliminate required materials, substitute another stream, self-haul as a compliance alternative, or rely on mixed-waste processing without an applicable approval.

Records: Retain the approved application, written conditions, hauler or recycler contracts, receipts, composition studies when required, and periodic reports.

Modified Recycling Application · County Program Requirements

Countywide Baseline: Miami-Dade Code §§15-2.2 and 15-2.5 apply across incorporated and unincorporated areas, subject to applicable municipal enforcement arrangements and equivalent or more stringent local recycling ordinances.

Priority Multifamily Markets:

• Miami: Confirm City commercial-hauler authorization, property classification, and required recycling service. City Hauler List .
• Miami Beach: Verify licensed private haulers, condominium recycling, chute procedures, enclosure access, and bulk service. Commercial Haulers .
• Doral: Confirm its separate municipal recycling requirements, approved collection provider, and any authorized modified-program arrangement. Doral Solid Waste .
• Hialeah: Local franchise requirements establish additional multifamily container and service-frequency obligations. Verify garbage, recycling, bulk, and compactor schedules. Franchise Program .
• Coral Gables: Confirm duplex/multifamily collection arrangements, recycling, and scheduled bulk and appliance removal. Multifamily Services .
• Sunny Isles Beach: Multifamily recycling is mandatory; coordinate condominium collection, high-rise access, resident instructions, and approved waste streams. Recycling Requirements .

Additional Incorporated Municipalities: Aventura, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Biscayne Park, Cutler Bay, El Portal, Florida City, Golden Beach, Hialeah Gardens, Homestead, Indian Creek, Key Biscayne, Medley, Miami Gardens, Miami Lakes, Miami Shores, Miami Springs, North Bay Village, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Opa-locka, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, South Miami, Surfside, Sweetwater, Virginia Gardens, and West Miami.

Property Management Rule: Confirm the physical parcel's municipality and folio, residential versus commercial account classification, permitted or franchised provider, recycling contract, bulk procedures, and actual enforcement agency. A mailing address alone is not sufficient.

Miami-Dade Recycling & Municipal Services · County Code Chapter 15

Source Separation: Maintain separate trash and recycling streams during doorstep collection, internal transportation, and central consolidation.

Collection Bags: Use blue or clear bags for internal identification only when approved by the doorstep provider, hauler, and receiving processor. Where loose recyclables are required, remove materials from collection bags before placing them in the recycling container.

Waste Sorting: Keep household chemicals, rechargeable batteries, electronics, propane cylinders, and other prohibited materials out of ordinary trash, recycling, and compactors.

Bulk and Move-Out Items: Use approved staging locations, scheduled removal, and documented resident notices. Do not block fire lanes, hallways, stairways, emergency exits, or accessible routes.

Resident Versus Business Waste: Separate eligible resident-generated household hazardous waste from property maintenance, landscaping, contractor, and commercial waste.

Documentation: Retain resident education, material lists, hauler directions, contamination reports, service exceptions, and Proof of Pickup® records.

Miami-Dade Waste Sorting Resources · County Home Chemical Collection