Refuse Rate Hearing Notice

The City’s Refuse Rate Board has received an application from Recology, the San Francisco refuse collection and processing company, for an increase in residential refuse collection and disposal rates for trash, recyclables and compostables (black, blue and green bin services). Recology is requesting an average increase of 21.51 percent, or about $6.60 a month for a single-family home. As part of that rate, Recology’s proposal would impose, for the first time, separate charges for the collection and disposal of recyclable and compostable materials. If the rate increase is approved, the City and Recology anticipate that the new rates would go into effect no earlier than August 1, 2013.

The Director of Public Works will hold a series of public hearings on Recology’s application in San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, as follows: 

May 20, 2013, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Room 408 

May 22, 2013, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Room 400

Your Right to Protest the 2013 Rate Application (Proposition 218 Information)

Any customer may submit a written protest against the 2013 Rate Application to the Hearing Officer by sending it to:

Refuse Collection Rate Hearing Officer


c/o Department of Public Works 


1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place 
City Hall, Room 348 


San Francisco, CA 94102

 Each protest must identify the subject premises and include the signature of the customer submitting the protest.  Faxes and emails are not accepted.

For more information, visit: http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=737