City Code Section
- A. Waste prevention and recycling requirements.
- 1. To achieve the City’s waste prevention and recycling goals as set forth in Section 17.102.010, all businesses within the City must comply with waste prevention, recycling and composting requirements as set forth in the administrative rules established by the City Administrator. The following recycling requirements are in effect:
- a. All businesses and multifamily complexes must recycle 75 percent of the solid waste they produce;
- b. All businesses must recycle all of their paper and containers. For the purposes of this Section, containers means all recyclable metal, plastic and glass containers;
- c. Covered food scraps generating businesses must separate their food scraps for collection.
- d. For all building projects within the City where the total job cost (including both demolition and construction phases) exceeds $50,000, the general contractor must ensure that 75 percent of the solid waste produced on the job site is recycled. In addition, certain materials generated on the job site must be recycled in compliance with administrative rules established by the City Administrator. For an affected building project where there is no general contractor, this requirement applies to the property owner is the person responsible for ensuring compliance with the recycling requirements.
- 2. Commercial customers that provide garbage collection service to business tenants as part of their rental/lease must provide recycling and, where appropriate, compostable collection systems that will enable the business tenants to recycle in compliance with administrative rules established by the City Administrator.
- 3. All multifamily complexes within the City must establish recycling systems for their tenants’ use, in compliance with administrative rules established by the City Administrator.
- 1. To achieve the City’s waste prevention and recycling goals as set forth in Section 17.102.010, all businesses within the City must comply with waste prevention, recycling and composting requirements as set forth in the administrative rules established by the City Administrator. The following recycling requirements are in effect:
- B. The City Administrator may monitor compliance with the requirements of Subsection A. by reviewing available information including, but not limited to, information reported by the customers on their recycling activities, as well as onsite inspections.
- C. Any business or any other person may sell or exchange at fair market value its own recyclable materials that are source-separated for reuse or recycling. This Chapter and any administrative rules promulgated under them are not intended to limit the ability of any person to compete openly to provide recycling collection service to businesses within Portland.