Trash & Recycling
Berkeley residents, businesses, and multi-family apartment/condo property owners can take advantage of waste services to dispose of compostable, recyclable, and landfill materials.
The City of Berkeley’s Zero Waste Division provides waste collection services for City residents, multifamily properties, and businesses. Community members’ participation in the City’s recycling and composting collection services and diversion programs is crucial to achieving the City’s goal of zero waste to landfills.
Public Notice of Proposed Five-Year Rate Schedule and Majority Protest Process for City of Berkeley’s Zero Waste Services
The City of Berkeley is proposing to increase rates charged for both residential and commercial Zero Waste services, including garbage collection, transfer and disposal, recyclables collection and processing, and organics collection and composting. The proposed rates for the five-year rate schedule would fund all costs to deliver these services, including operational, maintenance, financial, and capital expenditures. The proposed rates are calculated based upon the cost to provide Zero Waste services to each customer based upon each customer’s volume and frequency of collection. Berkeley property owners have a right to submit a written protest to the proposed five-year rate schedule and its rate changes. For more information, you can check out the Proposition 218 notice and Staff Report, including the adopted Resolution at Attachment 1 with the full rate schedule at Exhibit A.
