Mono County, CA Property Maintenance: Trash Bin Storage (2026)

Mono County does not operate its own residential garbage collection. Two franchise haulers, Mammoth Disposal and D&S Waste Removal, provide curbside cart service, while residents who do not subscribe self-haul municipal solid waste to one of six County transfer stations. Where a household subscribes, the hauler supplies or specifies the container. D&S Waste Removal offers a Regular Service plan in which customers provide their own 32-gallon cans, a Waste Wheeler plan with a company-provided 96-gallon cart, and a Bear Protected Waste Wheeler plan with a bear-resistant cart, reflecting Mono County's mountain wildlife environment. D&S requires that the waste wheeler, cans, and any additional bulk be placed at the curb or side of the alleyway to be collected, and that trash be set out the night before or by 6 a.m. on the pickup day. The County Code does not publish (in the sources reviewed) a specific maximum number of bins or a fixed setback for container storage in unincorporated areas. However, refuse that accumulates, overflows, attracts vermin or wildlife, or is stored so as to create a public nuisance can be enforced through the County's nuisance abatement process (Chapter 7.20) and administrative citation authority (Section 1.12), on a complaint basis. Residents storing trash on-site between self-haul trips should keep containers secured against bears and wildlife.