DC set a floor for privately collected trash — and put the condo credit under review
DC set a floor for privately collected trash — and put the condo credit under review
2026-09-09 · District of Columbia · Compliance
A District of Columbia association that pays a private hauler now has a statutory service floor to hold it to: at least 32 gallons of solid waste container space per residential unit, and collection at least twice per week. The CLEAN Collections Amendment Act of 2024 took effect March 21, 2025.1
The Act also does something quieter that matters more in the long run. It puts the condominium and cooperative trash collection tax credit under formal review by the District's Chief Financial Officer.
The service floor
The requirement, added to the District's solid waste provisions at §§ 8-1031.01 and following, is stated in units a board can check: 32 gallons of container space per residential unit, and collection twice per week at minimum.
That is a standard against which an association can measure what it is actually receiving — and, where the service falls short, a basis for a conversation with the hauler that is not merely a complaint.
The credit under review
A new § 47-872(f) directs the Chief Financial Officer to report, in its Tax Expenditure Review, on “[t]he estimated percentage of the cost of waste collection services covered by the condominium and cooperative trash collection real property tax credit,” along with the median commercial trash cost reported by apartment buildings.
The credit exists because most District condominiums and cooperatives do not receive District trash collection. They pay a private hauler, while their owners pay the same property taxes as households that do receive it. The credit is the District's partial answer to that.
A formal CFO review is where a change to a credit originates.
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