A. To prevent contamination of recycling and organics at processing facilities, the city and city-contracted collector will identify recycling and organic collection containers with visible contamination. For any contaminated container, the collector shall place in a prominent location a notification tag that identifies the specific problem(s) and may reject the materials for collection or have the materials dumped as garbage. The collector will also notify the city in a reasonably prompt manner of any contaminated containers and will provide the city with the same information included on the notification tag.

B. When containers are identified as contaminated, the customer may be charged a return trip fee by the city-contracted collector pursuant to the applicable contract or may be charged a contamination fee by the city in an amount established by the annual fee resolution approved by the city council.

C. In the event any contaminated container is dumped as garbage, the customer will be responsible to the city-contracted collector for the cost of dumping materials as garbage.

D. The public works director or designee may order the city-contracted collector to remove the recycling and/or organics container(s) from a customer who recurrently places contaminated container(s) out for collection. (Ord. 2260 § 4, 2018).