


The reason for this penalty charge is to encourage recycling because the City better contains its costs with recycling. The City will charge an additional monthly fee of $7.50 to any residential account refusing to accept a recycling container.The City reserves the right to provide a larger trash or recycling container to any resident that continuously evidences insufficient container capacity as exhibited by container overflows, spillage and/or litter. Residents shall be responsible for paying a $50 fee for multiple container size changes made within a year.Containers are assigned to a specific address and marked with serial numbers. Containers belong to the City – not to residents.Customers will be charged $7.50 monthly for each additional trash container.Customers can choose from 95-gallon and 65-gallon containers for both trash and recycling when signing up for service.They will issue a notice to residents in an effort to inform and educate if they find non-recyclable materials in the recycling container. DID YOU KNOW? Every day, city recycling inspectors travel to neighborhoods in Goodyear to check bins for non-recyclable items.
