Single Family (Municipal) Solid Waste Charge

Single-Family Properties Located in Towns

This page applies for all single-family homes located inside "INCORPORATED AREAS" - Towns or municipalities

Disposal fees | Base Systems Benefit Charge | Incremental Systems Benefit Charge | Refuse Collection Charge | Leaf Vacuuming Charge | Municipal Solid Waste Charges

Disposal Fees:

• ZERO; not applicable to municipal households. (Instead, haulers pay "Tipping Fee".)

• If the household's refuse collector brings its waste to the County's transfer station, a "Tipping Fee" is charged to the refuse hauler there based on the amount of waste delivered.  That charge may be passed along to the household by the hauler.  The municipality may be the refuse hauler.

Base Systems Benefit Charge:

• Paid by all properties via tax bill: $55.77 per household.

• Covers the portion of the County costs of providing basic solid waste services for single-family waste that are not covered by the Disposal and Tipping Fees.

• These are the programs and facilities necessary to fulfill the County's legal obligation to manage all single-family solid waste generated within the County. They include: overall solid waste program administration, solid waste enforcement activities, fulfillment of the “Dickerson Facilities Master Plan”, general program development, Division management personnel, general engineering and technical support, waste reduction programs, operation of the Resource Recovery Facility, and County debt service on the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station, Oaks Landfill, and the Recycling Center.

Incremental Systems Benefit Charge:

• ZERO; not applicable to municipal households.

Refuse Collection Charge:

• ZERO; not applicable to municipal households

Leaf Vacuuming Charge:

• ZERO; not applicable to municipal households

Municipal Solid Waste Charges:

• On behalf of the municipalities of Garrett Park, Gaithersburg and Washington Grove, the County collects municipal solid waste charges via the County tax bill. 
• Direct questions about these municipal solid waste service charges to the appropriate municipal officials.

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• Single-family homes
• Single-family homes (municipalities)
• Multifamily properties
• Nonresidential properties
• Transfer Station and Recycling Center fees