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Seaford council opens first reading on garbage rule requiring secure bags; recycling definitions to be added

5465060 · July 23, 2025
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Summary

Council heard a first reading to amend municipal code to require garbage placed in secured plastic bags inside approved containers; members asked the building official to add definitions clarifying recycling exceptions before the second reading.

City staff presented a first reading of a municipal code amendment that would require all garbage and refuse to be placed in secured plastic bags and inside approved containers.

The proposed change to Section 10 (Refuse — General Provisions) was introduced as a tool the code department suggested to reduce litter from loose trash and overflowing commercial containers. “We are seeing throughout the…

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