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Mandatory Business Recycling
Ordinance No. 07-25
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The Solid Waste Division has a limited amount of 4 gallon indoor recycling containers available. The containers are blue in color and feature the recycling logo; they are approx. 14 inches tall and 10 inches wide. Price each is $4.00 plus tax.
18 gallon recycling bins (similar to those used for curbside residential collection) are also available at $6.00 each plus tax.
Call the Solid Waste Division at 533-8000 to order.
The Board of County Commissioners on September 11, 2007, adopted Ordinance No. 07-25 relating to Mandatory Recycling of Commercial and Multi-Family Residential Solid Waste, and Construction and Demolition Debris.
What You Need To Know:
 Who is affected by this Ordinance?
Businesses and Multifamily Dwelling Units (Condos, Apartments, etc.) in
unincorporated Lee County and the City of Bonita Springs
What material am I required to recycle?
The recyclable material that by weight takes up most of your solid waste
stream of the following:
1. Fiber (office paper, cardboard, newsprint, magazines, junk-mail, fiberboard boxes, phone books, etc.)
2. Commingled containers (plastic #1-7, container glass, aluminum, steel, tin cans)
3. Ferrous metal
4. Non-Ferrous metal (aluminum)
5. Wood
6. Other (by Solid Waste Division approval)
When does this Ordinance become effective?
This ordinance becomes effective January 1, 2008
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