Its allowed. If the homeless are allowed to do it why can't others. Berkeley does not allow it and will ticket you, Oakland doesn't.

It is more than just pne person with a shopping cart. It is. Truck with several people taking the recyclables. This is one reSon recycling pick up fees are WAY too high. When it is a truck it is illegal. Can't do anything about the individuals, but can do something about those who are making it a business with "employees." In the end, your opinion is irrelevant. The City will decide what to do.

Under the Oakland Municipal Code, it is illegal. Whether or not one cares is up to each person.

Technically, the recyclables become the property of California Waste Solutions from the moment you put them into the recycling cart so (subject to limited exceptions that don’t apply to most people) you don’t even have the legal right give away the recycling after that point.

Under Section 8.28.030 (“Collection of recyclable materials”), “[i]t is unlawful for any person other than the RR [residential recycling] collector or those persons employed by the RR collector to collect or transport any recyclable materials from SFD [single-family dwelling] or MFD [multi-family dwelling premises within the City” . . . .

https://www.municode.com/library/ca/oakland/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT8HESA_CH8.28SOWACODIRE_8.28.030COREMA

Under Section 8.28.040(B) (“Ownership of materials”), “[t]itle to materials collected by the RR [residential recyclables] collector under the terms of the RR contract shall pass to the RR collector at such time as said materials are placed in a container and/or set out for collection provided, however, title to unacceptable waste shall remain with the generator unless expressly accepted by the RR collector.”

https://www.municode.com/library/ca/oakland/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT8HESA_CH8.28SOWACODIRE_8.28.040OWMA

James Li
Attorney

Oakland allows it, I didn't say it was legal or illegal.

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And just to relieve you of any misconception, I am a liberal.

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