Supervisors approve 9% hike for West Marin waste collection customers starting April 1

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News March 11, 2026March 10, 2026

A Recology waste management truck empties a bin on the side of the road in Inverness on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. The Marin County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a 9% rate increase for waste collection services in West Marin. (George Alfaro/Bay City News)

The Marin County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a 9% rate increase for waste collection services in West Marin, affecting customers served by Recology Sonoma Marin.

The increase will take effect April 1 and applies to residents in West Marin, Muir Beach and communities along the Marin Coast. The change does not affect Bolinas or Stinson Beach, which operate their own waste collection services.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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