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Refuse Rate Setting Process
The 2025 Refuse Rate-Setting process is now complete. In June 2022, San Francisco voters passed Proposition F to reform the City’s refuse rate setting process. The Refuse Rate Administrator has released application materials for Rate Years 2026 - 2030 and Recology has submitted an application for 2026-2028. Members of the public participated by sending written Prop. F objections to the Refuse Rates Administrator and by commenting at the public meetings listed below. New rates were approved by the Refuse Rate Board on June 25, 2025 and will go into effect October 1st, 2025.
The Rate Board has ratified the Rate Order for Rate Years 2026, 2027, and 2028
The Refuse Rates Administrator has issued a proposed rate order:
2024-2025 Refuse Rate-Setting Application Materials For Rate Years 2026-2030
Public Comments, Objections, and Protests
Please click here to submit your public comments or objections for San Francisco's proposed refuse rates.
Please click here for instructions on submitting Proposition 218 protests for San Francisco's proposed refuse rates.
Recology's Application for Rate Years 2026-2028:
Recology Rate Application Narrative for Rate Years 2026-2028
Recology Rate Application Summary of Assumptions for Rate Years 2026-2028
Rate Setting Application Materials:
2024 Refuse Rate Application Instructions for Rate Years 2026-2030
2024 Rate Application Forms for Regulated Entities:
2024-2025 Rate Setting Calendar for Rate Years 2026-2030
9/3/2024 - Initiation of Rate-Setting Process and Application Instructions Released
9/30/2024 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing
1/3/2025 - Rate Applications Due
1/6/2025 - Proposition F Written Objection Opportunity Begins
1/30/2025 - Refuse Rates Administrator's Hearing #1
2/4/2025 - Commission on the Environment Hearing with item on the refuse rate-setting process
2/7/2025 - Refuse rate application true-up. Recology will update their application with RY24 4th quarter actuals.
2/21/2025 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing #1
3/20/2025 - Refuse Rates Administrator's Hearing #2
4/1/2025 - Refuse Rates Administrator's Hearing #3 (if needed)
4/24/2025 - Streets and Sanitation Commission Hearing with item on the refuse rate-setting process
4/22/2025 - Proposition 218 mailer sent to ratepayers
4/28/2025 - Commission on the Environment Hearing with item on the refuse rate-setting process
5/1/2025 - Refuse Rates Administrator's Report
5/9/2025 - Proposed Rate Order released
5/30/2025 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing #2
6/25/2025 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing #3
7/14/2025 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing #4 (if needed)
7/29/2025 - Refuse Rate Board Hearing #5 (if needed)