Buena Park, CA Property Maintenance: Trash Bin Storage (2026)

Under the Solid Waste Collection chapter (Buena Park Municipal Code Chapter 8.12), every person in charge of a residential unit or commercial premises must source separate all solid waste into the appropriate green (organics), blue (recycling), or gray (trash/refuse) wheeled container provided through the city's franchised hauler. The code provides that except when temporarily placed for pickup, all such containers must be located or screened so as not to be in public view, keeping carts out of front-yard sightlines on non-collection days. Buena Park's Property Maintenance and Use Standards reinforce this by requiring that storage of materials, including trash storage receptacles, building and automotive materials, landscape tools, equipment, debris and inoperative vehicles within side yards be screened by approved walls, fences, storage buildings, or landscaping from view of abutting property and public and private streets and rights-of-way. The front yard and any street-side yard must be kept free of trash storage receptacles entirely. For collection, containers are placed in the street with the wheels positioned in front of the curb and the lid arrows pointing toward the street; green-waste carts are set at least two feet from trash carts.