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Trash & Recycling in California (2026)

1489 rules on the books across California, 198 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.

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Pickup Rules & Schedules

Trash and recycling collection days, what time to put bins out, and rules about sorting materials for curbside pickup.

Alameda

Significant Restrictions

Only Alameda's franchised hauler, or a permittee under a narrow list of exceptions, may pick up trash, recycling or…

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Alameda County

Significant Restrictions

Only haulers the Board of Supervisors has franchised, permitted, or otherwise authorized may collect trash, recycling…

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Chula Vista

Significant Restrictions

Chula Vista requires garbage to stay inside sturdy metal or plastic containers with tight-fitting lids, bans putting…

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Compton

Significant Restrictions

Every home and business in Compton must subscribe to the City's three-container organic waste collection service under…

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Downey

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family household in Downey must subscribe to the City's organic waste collection service and sort waste…

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Hemet

Significant Restrictions

Every property in Hemet must be signed up for city-franchised solid waste service: going without pickup arrangements…

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Inglewood

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family home in Inglewood must subscribe to the franchisee's three-container weekly service and sort food…

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Merced

Significant Restrictions

Every Merced property that generates solid waste must use the city's own collection service under Municipal Code Sec…

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Santa Ana

Significant Restrictions

Santa Ana's own contractor holds the exclusive right to collect, transport and dispose of all solid waste generated in…

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Tulare County

Significant Restrictions

Only the authorized County Franchise Hauler, or someone with the hauler's written authority and the Solid Waste…

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Westminster

Significant Restrictions

Only the Midway City Sanitary District franchisee may collect refuse and recyclables in Westminster; scavenging…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Anaheim residents must set out Solid Waste, Recyclable Materials and Organics carts at the curb, parkway or alley only…

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Antioch

Some Restrictions

Republic Services is Antioch's franchised hauler. Collection days are assigned by address, typically once weekly for…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

City-authorized collectors pick up Bakersfield discarded materials on predetermined, regularly scheduled days set by…

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Baldwin Park

Some Restrictions

Baldwin Park bans letting refuse pile up past seven days (30 for non-combustibles like glass and metal) and requires…

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Bellflower

Some Restrictions

Only the city's franchised hauler, the City, or another person the code specifically authorizes may pick up trash or…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley Zero Waste Division provides weekly curbside collection of refuse, recycling, and compost. Carts must be at…

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Bishop

Some Restrictions

The City of Bishop does not codify a mandatory municipal refuse-collection ordinance; residential trash and recycling…

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Bostonia

Some Restrictions

Bostonia's trash and recycling collection is provided by private non-exclusive franchise haulers, not the County…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Brentwood Disposal Service provides weekly curbside collection for trash, recycling, and organics throughout Brentwood…

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Burbank

Some Restrictions

Trash, recycling, and organic waste collected weekly by the city Monday-Friday, 6:30 AM-3:30 PM. Three containers…

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Butte County

Some Restrictions

If a licensed hauler misses your scheduled collection, Code section 31-35(C)(13)-(14) gives you a free special pickup…

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Camarillo

Some Restrictions

Camarillo's solid waste collection is regulated under CMC Chapter 9.04 (Integrated Waste Management). The city…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Carlsbad collects trash, recycling, and organics weekly through a city-contracted hauler. SB 1383 makes the green…

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Carson

Some Restrictions

Carson requires weekly trash and recycling pickup for every residential address and bars collection before 7 a.m. or…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico limits when trash and recycling bins may sit at the curb: no more than 12 hours before pickup, and they must be…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Chino residents may set solid waste and recycling containers at the curb no earlier than noon the day before pickup and…

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Citrus Heights

Some Restrictions

Republic Services is the exclusive residential solid waste, recycling, and organics hauler for Citrus Heights under a…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

Contra Costa County requires every home and business in the unincorporated area to subscribe to organic waste…

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Corona

Some Restrictions

Corona bars its solid waste franchisee from collecting trash before 7:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. anywhere in the city…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

New occupants in Cupertino have ten days to start solid waste collection service on their own, and Section 6.24.040…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Davis collects gray, green and split blue carts from individually serviced residences once a week under Municipal Code…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin, California bars its franchised hauler from beginning residential or adjacent-commercial collection before 6:00…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale limits how long trash, recycling, and organics containers can sit at the curb: Municipal Code Section…

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El Cajon

Some Restrictions

EDCO Disposal provides weekly curbside collection of trash, recyclables, and green waste for El Cajon residents…

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El Dorado County

Some Restrictions

El Dorado County property owners must keep non-recyclable waste from sitting out more than seven days, per Code Section…

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El Monte

Some Restrictions

El Monte single-family homes receive curbside pickup of trash (brown cart), recyclables (blue cart), and organics/green…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Elk Grove bans scavenging through anyone else's garbage cart and dumping waste on public or private property without…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido requires weekly trash, recycling, and organic-waste pickup at every dwelling under Municipal Code Section…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield Municipal Code Chapter 9 makes residential subscription to garbage collection service mandatory, except for…

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Fillmore

Some Restrictions

Fillmore provides weekly curbside collection for trash, recycling, and green waste through a franchised waste hauler…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Republic Services is Folsom's exclusive franchised hauler for residential solid waste, recycling, and organics…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Republic Services is the exclusive franchised hauler in Fremont and provides weekly curbside pickup of garbage…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno Municipal Code § 6-206(a) makes trash, recycling, and organics collection service mandatory for every residence…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

Fresno County requires residents to sort refuse, recyclables, and green waste into the separate cart or bin their…

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Fullerton

Some Restrictions

Fullerton requires every residential and commercial property to have its solid waste removed at least once a week…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale provides curbside trash, recycling, and green waste collection. Residents must separate waste into appropriate…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Glenn County requires garbage, rubbish, and refuse from dwellings to be removed at least once a week. In…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford limits when carts can sit at the curb: no earlier than 7 p.m. the night before pickup, and they must be back…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne requires weekly collection service for every property and controls exactly when bins can hit the curb…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward residents receive weekly solid waste, recycling, and organics collection through Waste Management of Alameda…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Huntington Beach residents may only put refuse, recycling, and yard-waste carts out where the public can see them from…

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Indio

Some Restrictions

Indio residents must use the city's authorized hauler and cannot leave a garbage container in the street or alley more…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Irvine guarantees at least weekly trash pickup for every occupied property and keeps trucks off residential streets…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Every owner of single-family, multi-family or commercial property in unincorporated Kern County must keep…

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Kings County

Some Restrictions

Licensed haulers serving unincorporated Kings County must keep a regular collection schedule and give the county and…

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Lake County

Some Restrictions

Boarding houses, restaurants, hotels, apartments and dwellings that subscribe to commercial garbage service in…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood requires residents to use only the City-issued wheeled carts for trash and recycling, keep them clean, and…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Lancaster's refuse contractor cannot begin residential collection before 6 a.m. under Municipal Code Sec. 13.16.060…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

State law, not city ordinance, sets the numbers behind Livermore's organic-waste pickup service. Health and Safety Code…

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Lodi

Some Restrictions

Lodi residents must subscribe to weekly garbage and organics service through Waste Management (the city's exclusive…

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Los Banos

Some Restrictions

Los Banos limits residential trash cans to 30 gallons with a tight-fitting, watertight cover under Los Banos Municipal…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Madera requires collection containers to sit at the curb on the travelway side, at the travelway edge if there is no…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca makes it illegal for anyone but city crews or the property's own owner or occupant to remove or collect solid…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.060 requires every residential generator in the unincorporated county to subscribe to the…

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Mendocino County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Mendocino County, every owner or tenant must arrange satisfactory refuse removal under County Code…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home, multi-family building, and business in Menifee must either subscribe to franchised trash…

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Merced County

Some Restrictions

Merced County restricts when refuse trucks can operate in the unincorporated area: collection in residential districts…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto collects the black trash and green organics carts weekly and the blue recycling cart every other week (odd/even…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey bars anyone from putting waste into another property's collection container without the owner's or tenant's…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Waste Management provides franchised residential trash collection in Moorpark between 7 AM and 7 PM, Monday through…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley requires weekly trash pickup at every residence and business under Municipal Code Section 6.02.060, with…

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Mountain View

Some Restrictions

Recology is Mountain View's exclusive hauler for garbage, recycling, and organics. Containers go out no earlier than…

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Murrieta

Some Restrictions

Murrieta requires every single-family generator to subscribe to and pay for the city's three-container collection…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach limits how long waste can pile up on a property: Municipal Code Section 6.04.110 caps solid waste, green…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk restricts when trash and recycling collection can happen. Municipal Code Section 8.48.320 bars any collection…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Oakland owners must have solid waste, recyclables, and organics collected at least once a week by the City's contracted…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Waste Management provides weekly automated curbside collection for recycling, organics, and landfill in Oceanside. Bins…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario requires the City's Integrated Waste Collector to pick up non-organic waste, recycling, green waste and other…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Residential trash, recycling, and organics in Orange are collected by CR&R Environmental Services. Collection occurs…

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Orange County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Orange County, OC Waste & Recycling franchises specific haulers by community: Waste Management, CR&R…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

Pacifica Municipal Code Section 6-5.105 requires the scavenger to empty garbage containers at least once each week, and…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Palm Springs bars putting trash, recycling or organic waste out in the street, alley or sidewalk except in proper…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale's franchised hauler must collect trash and recyclables from every occupied home at least once each calendar…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Pasadena provides curbside trash, recycling, and green waste collection through the Public Works Department. SB 1383…

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Perris

Some Restrictions

Perris property owners may not stockpile trash: Municipal Code § 7.16.110 requires all refuse kept on a property to sit…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Petaluma requires residential garbage and rubbish to be collected at least once a week, and only between 6:00 a.m. and…

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Pittsburg

Some Restrictions

Garaventa Enterprises (operating as Pittsburg Disposal) is the city's franchised solid waste, recycling, and organics…

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Placer County

Some Restrictions

Garbage and other putrescible waste must be removed from any Placer County property at least once every seven days…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Every occupied home, business and industrial building in Pleasanton must have solid waste, recyclables and organic…

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Pomona

Some Restrictions

Pomona bars trash, recycling and green waste pickups from commercial, industrial, institutional and multifamily sites…

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Rancho Cordova

Some Restrictions

Republic Services provides weekly curbside collection of garbage, recycling, and organics for Rancho Cordova residents…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

The City of Redding collects single-family trash once a week on a route-based day. Find your day by address using the…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Redlands must subscribe to city trash, organics and recycling service under City Code…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Redondo Beach limits when trash carts can sit at the curb: not before 11:59 p.m. the night before pickup and not after…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Redwood City requires refuse service at every occupied premises under City Code Section 14.2, with the charge set under…

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Reedley

Some Restrictions

Reedley's residential trash collection is provided exclusively by Mid Valley Disposal under a city franchise agreement…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Every premises in Rialto must dispose of accumulated solid waste at least once a week through the city's franchised…

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Richmond

Some Restrictions

Republic Services is Richmond's exclusive franchised hauler and collects trash, recycling, and organics weekly on a…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Riverside's Public Works Department requires every hauler serving residential property to collect solid waste at least…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Riverside County Ordinance No. 745 makes solid waste collection compulsory in designated unincorporated areas. Every…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park requires every occupied premises to subscribe to regular collection service with the city's authorized…

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Roseville

Some Restrictions

Roseville lets residents set containers out the evening before collection, but every cart must be off the curb again…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires every residential and residential mixed-use property to subscribe to city garbage collection…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Subscription to garbage, recycling, and organics collection is mandatory for improved parcels in unincorporated…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas guarantees at least weekly collection, with residential pickup running 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday…

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San Benito County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Benito County requires solid waste to be collected and disposed of at least once a week, and the…

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San Bernardino

Some Restrictions

Only the city's franchised hauler may collect garbage, recycling and organic waste in San Bernardino, and Municipal…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Bernardino County requires solid-waste collection service through the County's franchise system. The…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente bans solid waste collection in residential zones between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and in commercial or…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

San Diego provides weekly residential solid waste collection per SDMC §66.0127 and the Waste Management Regulations…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated San Diego County, private companies operating under non-exclusive franchise agreements (NEFAs)…

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San Francisco

Some Restrictions

San Francisco's Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance (Environment Code Chapter 19) requires all residents and…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Joaquin County contracts residential solid waste and recycling service through franchise haulers…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

San Luis Obispo County Code Section 8.12.230 sets collection windows for franchised trash and recyclables haulers. Each…

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.150 requires occupants to set gray, blue and green containers at the curb…

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San Mateo

Some Restrictions

Recology San Mateo County provides weekly curbside collection of trash, recyclables, and organic waste. SB 1383…

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San Mateo County

Some Restrictions

In the unincorporated Service Area, County Code Chapter 4.04 establishes mandatory minimum residential collection…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

Waste Management of Alameda County / Contra Costa is the exclusive franchise hauler for San Ramon, providing…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

Regular residential trash pickup in unincorporated Santa Barbara County must happen at least once a week and only…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara bars refuse collection before 7:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. at residential properties under City Code…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Residential and nonresidential premises in unincorporated Santa Clara County must subscribe to the County's…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Burrtec provides exclusive residential trash and recycling collection per SCMC 15.44. Transition to Burrtec occurred…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Trash and recycling carts in unincorporated Santa Cruz County can't sit uncollected indefinitely. County Code §…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.14 tells residents exactly where carts belong: behind the required front yard…

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Santa Monica

Some Restrictions

Santa Monica's Resource Recovery & Recycling team collects trash, recycling, and organics weekly on your assigned day…

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Santa Paula

Some Restrictions

Santa Paula provides weekly curbside collection for trash, recycling, and organic/green waste. Collection is managed by…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.120 and § 9-12.130 require the contractor to remove accumulated garbage and organic waste…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Simi Valley Municipal Code Section 6-3.13 requires households and businesses to prepare discards for pickup exactly as…

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Solano County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Solano County, garbage, recyclables and green waste containers must be nonabsorbent, leakproof…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

The City of Sonoma will not let trash pile up between pickups: Sonoma Municipal Code § 7.08.150 requires businesses to…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires weekly curbside collection of trash, recycling, and organics through the county's…

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South Gate

Some Restrictions

South Gate's zoning code requires every new development to build a screened trash and recycling enclosure with a…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton limits when carts can hit the curb: containers cannot go out before 6:00 p.m. the night before collection and…

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Tehama County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Tehama County doesn't run curbside pickup itself: it requires any commercial hauler collecting solid…

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Temecula

Some Restrictions

Temecula caps residential and commercial refuse pickup to Monday through Saturday, six a.m. to five p.m., with…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Thousand Oaks provides curbside trash, recycling, and green waste collection through a contracted waste hauler…

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Torrance

Some Restrictions

The City collects trash and recycling once a week, Monday through Thursday, by 7 a.m. on your assigned day. When a…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy's franchised hauler, not the resident, controls container types and repairs. Under Tracy Municipal Code section…

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Truckee

Some Restrictions

Truckee requires households, multi-family buildings and businesses to keep food scraps and yard trimmings out of the…

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Tuolumne County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Tuolumne County uses a franchised-hauler system under Title 7, but curbside pickup is optional…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland requires households to use the standard cart the authorized collector supplies for solid waste, recyclables, and…

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Vacaville

Some Restrictions

Vacaville's franchised hauler, Recology Vacaville Solano, collects garbage, recycling, and organics weekly on one…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.48.020(C) tells residents exactly how and when to set out solid waste, recycling, and…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

In Ventura, carts can go to the curb no earlier than 4:00 p.m. the day before your scheduled pickup and must come back…

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Ventura County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Ventura County has weekly curbside collection of trash, recycling, and organics by County-franchised…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista requires every property owner to maintain mandatory solid waste collection service under Vista Municipal Code §…

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Walnut Creek

Some Restrictions

Republic Services provides weekly trash, recycling, and organics collection in Walnut Creek under an exclusive…

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West Covina

Some Restrictions

West Covina's hauler Athens Services collects trash, recycling, and organics weekly on your assigned day. Confirm your…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento's contracted hauler must collect garbage, recyclables and organic waste at least once a week from carts…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier only lets residents and businesses set out trash, carts or bulky waste during a fixed twenty-four-hour window…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Yolo County residents may not put trash carts at the curb before 5 p.m. the day before collection and must pull empty…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City limits what can go out for collection: Municipal Code Section 6-3.12 sorts refuse into organic waste, solid…

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Alhambra

Light Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.180 lets solid waste subscribers order special collections for bulky goods, brown and…

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Buena Park

Light Restrictions

Buena Park, California limits residential trash pickup to the hours of seven a.m. to seven p.m., and lets commercial…

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Clovis

Light Restrictions

Clovis collects your gray trash, blue recycling, and green waste toters weekly on the same address-based day. Find it…

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Long Beach

Light Restrictions

Long Beach provides refuse collection to approximately 118,000 accounts under LBMC Ch. 8.60. Refuse collection vehicles…

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Los Angeles

Light Restrictions

LA Sanitation collects black (trash) and green (organics) carts weekly and the blue recycling cart every other week…

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Los Angeles County

Light Restrictions

Residential waste collectors in unincorporated LA County must collect trash at least once per week and are prohibited…

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Oxnard

Light Restrictions

Oxnard provides weekly curbside collection of trash, recyclables, and green waste through its contracted waste hauler…

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Palo Alto

Light Restrictions

GreenWaste of Palo Alto collects garbage, recycling, and compost weekly on assigned routes. Residents must place carts…

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Port Hueneme

Light Restrictions

Port Hueneme contracts with a waste hauler for residential trash, recycling, and green waste collection. Pickup occurs…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Light Restrictions

Burrtec Waste Industries is the exclusive residential hauler in Rancho Cucamonga. Weekly pickup includes trash…

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San Jose

Light Restrictions

San Jose collects garbage, recycling, and yard trimmings weekly on the same day. Find your day with the city's…

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San Leandro

Light Restrictions

San Leandro uses exclusive franchised haulers (Alameda County Industries and Waste Management of Alameda County). Carts…

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Sunnyvale

Light Restrictions

Sunnyvale collects garbage, recycling, and organics weekly on the same day. Look up your day with the city's 'How to…

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Union City

Light Restrictions

Union City's franchised hauler must pick up residential trash weekly, organic waste every other week, recycling weekly…

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Visalia

Light Restrictions

All Visalia properties are required to subscribe to city refuse service, with a minimum of one pickup per week for each…

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Bin Placement Rules

Where to position trash and recycling carts, when they may go to the curb and must come back, and the screening or enclosure rules for where bins live between pickups.

Costa Mesa

Significant Restrictions

Placing solid waste collection containers on public property in Costa Mesa without a city permit or agreement is…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Alameda homeowners cannot leave trash and recycling carts at the curb around the clock. Municipal Code Sec. 21-2.4(a)…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Alameda County bans leaving trash, recycling, or green-waste carts out for more than 24 hours in any…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.160 caps curbside containers at 65 pounds, bars setting them out before noon the day…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Anaheim tells residents exactly when carts can hit the curb: Municipal Code Section 10.10.070 allows Discarded…

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Antioch

Some Restrictions

Antioch residential customers must wheel trash, recycling, and organics carts to the curb no earlier than 6 p.m. the…

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Apple Valley

Some Restrictions

Apple Valley residents must keep trash, recycling and organics carts on their own property except on collection day…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Bakersfield tells every household exactly where to put its trash, recycling and organics carts for pickup: against the…

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Baldwin Park

Some Restrictions

Baldwin Park caps each trash cart at 150 pounds, bans setting it out before 8 p.m. the night before pickup, and…

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Bellflower

Some Restrictions

Bellflower requires properties with multiple residential units or planned developments to store refuse in a fully…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley requires residents to wheel City garbage, recycling and organics carts to the gutter on collection day and…

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Bishop

Some Restrictions

Bishop Municipal Code 8.28.030 requires trash and recycling receptacles to have securely fitting lids and to be handled…

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Bostonia

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Bostonia, County Code requires residents to place solid-waste and recycling containers so they do not…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Brentwood residents must set trash, recycling and organics carts at the curb with wheels in the gutter and the handle…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Buena Park residents may not put solid-waste containers out for collection earlier than sunset the night before pickup…

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Butte County

Some Restrictions

Butte County Code section 31-50.1 bans setting a trash, recycling or organics cart where it blocks a street, sidewalk…

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Calaveras County

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Calaveras County requires solid waste customers to set containers within twenty feet of where the hauler's truck can…

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Camarillo

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Camarillo trash and recycling carts cannot go to the curb before 4 p.m. the day before collection and must be out by…

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Carlsbad

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Carlsbad requires residential trash, recycling and organics carts to sit wheels-against-the-curb, or within five feet…

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Carson

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Carson, California residents must set trash and recycling carts at the curb no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the day before…

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Ceres

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Ceres requires carts hidden from street view except on collection day, when they go curbside from 6 p.m. the night…

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Chico

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Chico requires trash carts to be stored out of public view at the side or rear of the home between pickups, and limits…

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Chino

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Chino requires refuse and recycling bins to be screened from public view and limits when carts may sit at the curb.

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills residents may set carts at the curb no more than twenty-four hours before their regular collection time and…

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Chula Vista

Some Restrictions

Chula Vista requires every garbage generator to store waste only in containers supplied by the City's Authorized…

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Citrus Heights

Some Restrictions

Citrus Heights does not have a generally-applicable municipal code requirement to screen residential trash and…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Clovis property owners on alleys must use the alley for garbage, rubbish, and greenwaste pickup and put containers out…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Compton limits when trash carts and bins can sit at the curb: not before noon the day before pickup, and gone again by…

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Corona

Some Restrictions

Corona requires residential garbage, recycling and green-waste carts to stay off the curb, alley or right-of-way until…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino residents may not set carts out more than 24 hours before pickup and must pull them back within 24 hours…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Davis residents must set their gray, green and split blue carts in the gutter next to the curb, never on the sidewalk…

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Delano

Some Restrictions

Delano Development Code §20.10.290.3 requires outdoor trash receptacles for multifamily and nonresidential uses to be…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Downey bars residents from wheeling a trash, recycling or green-waste cart to the curb before 6:00 p.m. the night…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin requires collection carts to stay out of travel lanes, be pulled back out of street view by the day after pickup…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale bars trash, recycling and green waste carts from the public right of way more than 24 hours before pickup and…

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El Cajon

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El Cajon caps standard household waste carts at 96 gallons and bars storing them in the required front yard setback…

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El Dorado County

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El Dorado County requires trash and recycling containers to stay out of view from the street except on pickup day. Code…

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El Monte

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El Monte bars storing waste and recycling containers in the front or side yard setback, sidewalk, or right-of-way…

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Elk Grove

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Elk Grove residents must screen trash carts from street view, keep them off public property, and follow strict timing…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido residents must set their trash, recycling, and organics carts at the curb in front of their property for…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield residents must roll carts to the curb in front of the home, spaced two feet apart and six feet from any fixed…

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Folsom

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Folsom requires garbage, recycling and organic waste carts at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on collection day, wheels in the…

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Fontana

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Fontana limits when residential trash, recycling and organics carts can sit at the curb: no earlier than 24 hours…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.150 requires residents to pull empty collection carts off the curb within 24 hours…

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Fresno

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Fresno Municipal Code § 6-205(c)(10) bars storing a trash, recycling, or organics container in a front or side yard…

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Fullerton

Some Restrictions

Fullerton owners, tenants and occupants may not set a trash, recycling or green-waste cart at the curb or in the public…

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Garden Grove

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Garden Grove Municipal Code Section 9.32.200(B)(4) bans keeping trash, garbage, or refuse containers in front or side…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale Municipal Code Section 8.44.081 requires automated trash, recycling and green-waste carts to be set at the…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Glenn County requires anyone whose property generates garbage or rubbish to keep it in a covered…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford, California curb-service customers must set gray, green, and blue carts out between 7 p.m. the night before and…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne requires every trash, recycling and organics container to sit somewhere accessible for pickup, never blocking…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward tells single-family households exactly when garbage carts can hit the curb and when they must come back in…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Hemet limits when residents may roll carts and bins to the curb: no more than 24 hours before pickup, and containers…

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Hercules

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Hercules Municipal Code Sec. 5-2A.07 requires every owner or tenant supplied a garbage receptacle to place it at the…

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Hesperia

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Hesperia residents may set trash carts at the curb no earlier than sunset the night before pickup and must remove them…

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Imperial County

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New residential development in Imperial County's unincorporated area must screen trash receptacles from off-site view…

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Inglewood

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Inglewood residents and businesses must set refuse containers at the curb or alley along their collection route, never…

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Irvine

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Irvine caps how long trash, recycling and organics carts can sit at the curb: Sec. 6-7-405(C) bars setting a bin or…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Kern County, containers set out for franchise pickup must sit at the curb, alley or another spot the…

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Kings County

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Leaving garbage cans or similar containers visibly stored in a residential front yard on non-collection days is a…

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Lake County

Some Restrictions

For commercial and multi-family properties in unincorporated Lake County that qualify for a Refuse/Litter Control plan…

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Lake Forest

Some Restrictions

Lake Forest homes must keep trash bins out of public view on private property except on collection day, and bins must…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Lancaster residents must set refuse containers at the curb fronting their property, and Section 13.16.040 caps how…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Livermore's franchise waste ordinance spells out exactly when and where carts go: at the curb, not before sunset the…

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Long Beach

Some Restrictions

New development and remodeled commercial, multifamily and mixed-use sites in Long Beach must enclose trash receptacles…

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Los Angeles

Some Restrictions

Every owner and occupant of commercial and residential premises in Los Angeles must provide covered, nonabsorbent…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Madera Municipal Code Section 5-3.24 requires containers to come off the curb and be stored on the property between the…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca residents may not roll their trash cart to the curb before sundown the night before pickup, and it has to come…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.100 requires every property owner and occupant to store garbage, recycling and organics in…

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Mendocino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Mendocino County requires refuse carts to be kept closed and sanitary, set out no more than 12 hours…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee Code of Ordinances § 6.30.040(C) caps curbside cart time to a 24-hour window before pickup and 12 hours after…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Merced requires curbside carts to go out no earlier than 4 p.m. the day before collection and be pulled in by 9 p.m. on…

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Merced County

Some Restrictions

Carts in unincorporated Merced County are set out per the franchised hauler's rules. Gilton customers face containers…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Mission Viejo limits when carts can go to the curb, how much they can weigh, and requires them out of public view…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto Code § 5-5.121 tells residents exactly where garbage, recycling, and organic-waste carts must sit for pickup…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey limits when a residential cart can sit at the curb, no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the evening before pickup and no…

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Monterey County

Some Restrictions

Every owner of premises in unincorporated Monterey County where solid waste is created must keep enough approved…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Moorpark bars putting trash, recycling, or organics carts out before 5:30 p.m. the day before pickup, requires…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley bans setting a trash cart at the curb more than 12 hours before pickup and requires it back off the…

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Mountain View

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Mountain View requires garbage, waste, and recycling containers to be pulled to the street sidewalk line no more than…

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Murrieta

Some Restrictions

Murrieta requires trash and recycling containers to be stored behind the front-yard setback and screened from public…

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Napa County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Napa County, any owner or occupant of premises where solid waste accumulates must place and keep…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach controls when and where trash and recycling carts sit under Municipal Code Section 6.04.120: containers…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk tells residents exactly where and when their trash, recycling and greenwaste carts belong. Municipal Code…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Oakland requires single-family households on curbside collection to set mixed-material, recycling, and compost carts at…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Section 13.28 sets Oceanside's cart placement window: close containers and put them curbside no earlier than 4:00 p.m…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario Municipal Code Section 6-3.308 tells residents exactly when and where to put out trash, recycling and green…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.29.200(A) requires homeowners to keep trash carts out of public view in a side or rear…

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Orange County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Orange County requires trash bins and dumpsters to be enclosed or screened from public view, bans…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Oxnard limits when and where collection carts can sit outside under City Code § 19-192. Carts may go out no more than…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

Pacifica Municipal Code Section 6-5.106 requires garbage receptacles to stay in a protected area on the property except…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Palm Springs residential waste containers cannot sit behind locked gates or doors, or inside a fenced area also used to…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale households must set solid waste and recycling containers at the curb, never more than 24 hours before pickup…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Pasadena residents may not put regulation trash carts at the curb before 7 a.m. the day before pickup and must pull…

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Perris

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Perris requires refuse receptacles to be galvanized metal or plastic, hold no more than 35 gallons, weigh under 60…

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Petaluma

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Petaluma requires garbage and rubbish receptacles to stay covered except when in use, and placed within five feet of…

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Placer County

Some Restrictions

Placer County Code § 8.16.160 requires refuse containers to sit at ground level on the property, out of the public…

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Pleasanton

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Pleasanton requires every residence and business with mandatory collection to keep garbage, recyclables and organic…

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Pomona

Some Restrictions

Pomona requires every solid waste container to stay lid-closed between pickups and bars storing bins on city streets…

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Rancho Cordova

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Rancho Cordova limits how long trash carts can sit at the curb and requires residential trash and recycling containers…

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Rancho Cucamonga

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Rancho Cucamonga sets exact placement rules for trash, recycling, and organics carts: curbside, at least three feet…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Redding requires automated refuse carts to sit within two feet of the curb on collection day, out no earlier than 12…

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Redlands

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Redlands dictates exactly where trash, recycling and green waste carts go on collection day under City Code section…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Redondo Beach's Solid Waste Handling Services Law fixes exact hours for putting carts at the curb and requires them out…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Redwood City must keep enough watertight garbage, recycling and organic-waste containers to…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Rialto residents may only wheel their solid waste, recycling and organics containers to the curb up to twenty-four…

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Ridgecrest

Some Restrictions

On collection day, Ridgecrest requires trash and recycling carts to be reachable, filled no higher than 'level full,'…

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Riverside

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Every Riverside property that generates solid waste must keep enough standard automated or manual containers on site…

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Riverside County

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Riverside County limits curbside trash and recycling carts to a 12-hour window before and after collection, and…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park limits how long a garbage can or refuse container may sit visible from the public right-of-way: only…

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Roseville

Some Restrictions

Roseville's Municipal Code sets exact placement rules for trash, recycling and green waste carts. Curbside residences…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires garbage, recycling and organics carts to be grouped at the curb, kept clear of obstructions, and…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sacramento County residents and businesses may only set carts and bins out within a 24-hour window…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas Municipal Code Section 14-01.03 requires the city's exclusive franchisee to supply every household and business…

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San Benito County

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Unincorporated San Benito County residents may not set solid waste containers at the curb more than 24 hours before…

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San Bernardino

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San Bernardino requires solid waste containers to stay out of the public right-of-way and out of sight except on…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

San Bernardino County limits how long trash bins sit at the curb: containers can go out no more than 12 hours before…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente requires trash, recycling and organics carts to sit at the curb no earlier than 5 p.m. the day before…

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San Diego

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San Diego property owners and occupants must keep enough covered, leakproof trash and recycling containers on site and…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated San Diego County, trash and recycling carts can't hit the curb before 6 p.m. the day before pickup or…

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San Francisco

Some Restrictions

Under San Francisco Public Works Code § 170, trash, recycling, and compost bins may be placed at the curb no earlier…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

San Joaquin County and its cities require trash, recycling, and organics bins to be stored out of public view between…

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San Jose

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San Jose limits how early garbage and recycling carts can hit the curb and requires them stored out of sight the rest…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro requires leak-proof, properly sized containers positioned where the franchisee can easily reach them, and…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

San Luis Obispo County requires garbage carts kept above ground and set within ten feet of the street or alley for…

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San Marcos

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San Marcos residents must set gray, blue and green carts at the curb for pickup and cannot leave them out before 6 p.m…

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San Mateo County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Mateo County residents may set carts out no more than 24 hours before pickup and must store them out…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael caps how long a trash, recycling, or organics cart can sit at the curb: only during a 48-hour window…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

San Ramon Municipal Code Section B6-11 bans leaving trash, organics, or recycling containers on any public street…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

Santa Ana requires curbside trash to go out in the city's official carts, placed in the street with the wheels touching…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

The county's Solid Waste and Recycling Storage Facilities standard, Section 35.30.170, does not set curbside pickup…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara requires refuse, recycling and organics containers to be kept in an enclosure or the side/rear yard, with…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Multi-family and nonresidential properties in unincorporated Santa Clara County must screen trash enclosures on three…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Santa Clarita bars putting trash, recycling and organics carts out early or leaving them in view. Municipal Code…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Rolling your cart to the curb early or leaving it out for days is a code violation in unincorporated Santa Cruz County…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.06 requires every occupant to keep refuse and recycling carts on the premises…

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Santa Monica

Some Restrictions

Trash and recycling containers may not be set out earlier than 4:00 p.m. the day before collection and must be removed…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.100 requires garbage, recycling, and organic waste carts to sit at least three feet apart…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Simi Valley bars residents from putting trash carts at the curb early or leaving them out late: containers may go out…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

The City of Sonoma tells residents exactly when carts can sit at the curb: no earlier than the day before pickup, and…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Sonoma County, single-family homes must set garbage, recycling and organics carts at the curb or…

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South Gate

Some Restrictions

South Gate requires every property owner to keep garbage, debris, and rubbish in an enclosed container so wind can't…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Stanislaus County caps how long a trash or recycling cart can sit at the curb: Section 9.04.110 bars containers from a…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton requires collection bins to sit on a hard, accessible outdoor surface and be kept inside an enclosure meeting…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Sunnyvale bins cannot sit on the curb around the clock. Municipal Code Section 8.16.050 bars storing mixed waste…

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Temecula

Some Restrictions

Temecula residents may not set a trash cart at the curb more than 24 hours before pickup and must pull it back within…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Thousand Oaks requires residential trash, recycling and organics carts to sit at the curb, rolled curb, driveway apron…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy tells residents exactly how to set out trash, recycling, and organics carts. Tracy Municipal Code section…

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Truckee

Some Restrictions

Truckee caps residential garbage containers at 32 gallons and 60 pounds with a tight-fitting lid, and every container…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City requires residential trash, recycling and organic waste carts to be screened from public right-of-way view…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland limits when carts can sit at the curb. Municipal Code Section 13.28.510 bars setting a container out before…

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Vallejo

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Vallejo residents must set solid waste, recycling and green waste carts three feet apart at the curb, not earlier than…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

Ventura residents must place carts in the parkway strip if one exists, otherwise at the curb, sidewalk, or in a paved…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Victorville tells residents exactly how and when to set out trash and recycling carts. Municipal Code Section 6.36.130…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista Municipal Code Section 13.16.150 tells residents where solid waste containers belong and when they can sit at the…

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West Covina

Some Restrictions

West Covina bars residents from setting out trash, recycling or yard waste carts before 5:00 p.m. the day before pickup…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento bars residents from setting garbage, recycling, and organic-waste carts at the curb before noon the day…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Westminster's zoning code sets exact rules for where trash and recycling carts sit on a residential lot. New…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier's automated trash, recycling and organics carts have to stay on private property, not in the street or alley…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Yolo County requires trash, recycling and organics carts at the curb only within a set window: no…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City requires refuse containers to sit at street level within 2 feet of the curb or sidewalk, out of the street or…

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Yuba County

Some Restrictions

Refuse containers can't be stored in a street or alley right-of-way in unincorporated Yuba County, except within a…

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Indio

Light Restrictions

Indio exempts single-family and small multi-family homes from a trash enclosure but requires garbage and recycling…

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Lakewood

Light Restrictions

Lakewood requires wheeled trash and recycling carts to sit curbside with wheels behind the curb, and limits how long…

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Los Angeles County

Light Restrictions

Trash bins in unincorporated LA County may not be set out before 5:00 p.m. the evening before scheduled collection and…

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Visalia

Light Restrictions

Visalia requires residential trash bins to be stored on the property, out of sight from the street, on all…

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Bulk Item Disposal

How to dispose of large items like furniture, appliances, and mattresses, including scheduled pickups and drop-off locations.

Hawthorne

Significant Restrictions

Hawthorne Code § 12.31.010 makes it unlawful to leave bulky waste, furniture, appliances, electronics or tires on any…

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Oakland

Significant Restrictions

Oakland gives its franchised hauler, the MM&O collector, the exclusive right to collect bulky goods, old appliances…

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Temecula

Significant Restrictions

Old furniture, appliances, and other bulky waste cannot go out with the regular cart or be set curbside in Temecula…

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Upland

Significant Restrictions

Getting a temporary bulky-waste container placed in an Upland street requires an encroachment permit first. Municipal…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Every residential customer in Alameda gets scheduled clean-up collection events through the city's franchised hauler…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra residents cannot set bulky goods like furniture or appliances at the curb without first scheduling pickup with…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Bulky items and other discarded materials requiring special handling aren't part of Bakersfield's routine weekly…

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Baldwin Park

Some Restrictions

Baldwin Park gives cart-service customers up to six free bulky waste pickups a year with 48 hours' notice, capped at…

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Bellflower

Some Restrictions

Bellflower residents get free bulky-item pickup by calling the franchised hauler at least 24 hours ahead; commercial…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Any Berkeley property that lets more than one cubic yard of waste build up between collections must manage it as the…

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Bishop

Some Restrictions

The City of Bishop Municipal Code has no dedicated bulky-item or large-trash pickup ordinance. Residents dispose of…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Buena Park requires bundled brush and tree limbs no longer than four feet or thicker than eighteen inches at the curb…

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Camarillo

Some Restrictions

Camarillo lets residents set bulky items at the curb on the same schedule as regular trash, but only inside a strict…

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Ceres

Some Restrictions

Ceres residents get two free bulky-item pickups per calendar year from the city's franchised hauler, plus a seasonal…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico's exclusive waste franchise must provide two free bulky-item pickups a year to single-family and two-family…

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills residents cannot set bulky items such as furniture or appliances at the curb without first arranging pickup…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Clovis handles bulky waste and excess rubbish through a request-based special haul, not free curbside bulk pickup…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Furniture, appliances and other large items in Compton go out only through the authorized hauler's on-call bulky waste…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino lets single-family households put uncontained large items too big for a regular bin out for a scheduled…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Downey will not let a couch, mattress or dead appliance sit at the curb on ordinary trash day. Municipal Code § 5242…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale residents cannot set furniture, mattresses, or large tree limbs at the curb without first arranging pickup…

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El Monte

Some Restrictions

El Monte bars leaving bulky items like furniture, appliances, or tires on any public street, vacant lot, or front yard…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Residents subscribed to collection service can set bulky items, used oil and filters, and Christmas trees at the curb…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido's Class I franchised haulers must collect large bulk items on 24 hours' notice, with the maximum charge and…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield residents scheduling a bulk pickup for oversized items like refrigerators, sofas, or mattresses, or yard…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Folsom's bulky waste program requires an appointment, caps piles at five cubic yards (7 by 6 by 3 feet), and limits…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno Municipal Code § 6-205(c)(5) requires customers with more waste than their carts can hold to order and pay for a…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

Fresno County residents cannot set bulky items like refrigerators, mattresses, carpets and furniture out with regular…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale Municipal Code Section 8.44.070 lets residential customers request free curbside pickup of bulky items and…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

Glenn County does not advertise a routine curbside bulky-item pickup. Large and bulky metal objects such as auto and…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford, California has no curbside bulky-item day; residents apply for a temporary city bin for short-term loads like…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward's Franchisee collects Bulky Items, furniture, mattresses, tires, appliances and similar large discards, on…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Hemet residents must arrange bulky-item pickup through the franchised hauler and cannot set items out before 7 p.m. the…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code Section 8.21.170 lets residents schedule special collections for bulky refuse that…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Furniture and other bulky items that won't fit in a standard cart must be covered and secured. Sec. 6-7-405(D) requires…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood provides bulky-item disposal only through City-designated "Clean-Up" programs under Municipal Code Section…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Lancaster's weekly curbside pickup does not take bulky items over four feet long or sixty pounds under Section…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Extra trash that won't fit in your Livermore cart doesn't sit at the curb for free. Municipal Code Section 8.08.040(K)…

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Long Beach

Some Restrictions

Long Beach residents can't just leave a mattress or old appliance at the curb. LBMC § 8.60.050(B) requires contacting…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Madera provides a special disposal service under Municipal Code Section 5-3.12 for refuse too large or too much for a…

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Madera County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Madera County, oversized items like appliances, furniture, tires, and mattresses are collected only…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca's solid waste division collects bulky items like couches and chairs through paid special pick-ups rather than a…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.010 defines "bulky waste" as oversized items such as mattresses, appliances, furniture, tires…

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Mendocino County

Some Restrictions

Tires, furniture, appliances, and other 'hard-to-handle waste' can't just go in a refuse container or a Mendocino…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee Code of Ordinances § 6.30.040(D) requires furniture and other large bulky items that don't fit inside a bin…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Items too large for regular containers must be removed through a special pickup arranged with Merced's solid waste…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Mission Viejo bars residents from setting bulky items like old furniture, appliances or mattresses at the curb until…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto runs a Residential Bulky Item Collection Program through the Public Works Director, letting residential…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Moorpark requires bulky items like couches and appliances to be set out behind the curbline or, on alleys, next to the…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley residents can order special collections for furniture, appliances and oversized yard debris too big for a…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach handles oversized trash separately from regular carts under Municipal Code Section 6.04.080: items too…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk residents get large household items like refrigerators, mattresses and furniture picked up through special…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Oceanside lets residents set out bulky items like appliances, furniture, tires, and mattresses as large landfill items…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario residential customers get four free bulky item pickups a year under Section 6-3.309, scheduled by appointment…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Every Oxnard residential account gets one free curbside bulky item collection per year, covering up to five household…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Palm Springs treats furniture, appliances and other large bulky items as outside the regular curbside cart system…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale residents must schedule oversized item pickup, like stoves, refrigerators, mattresses and furniture, through…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Pasadena residents get bulky item pickups through a director-run notice program, not on-demand curbside placement…

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Perris

Some Restrictions

Perris lets yard trimmings and other bulky refuse go out for collection if bundled and tied, capped at 50 pounds, four…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Cleanup, remodeling, and construction debris in Petaluma must go into a permitted debris box, defined in PMC §…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Some Restrictions

Bulky items such as refrigerators, sofas and other large furniture do not go out with a Rancho Cucamonga resident's…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Redding will not collect large household items such as refrigerators, washing machines, furniture, or appliances…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Large discarded items like furniture and appliances cannot go in Redlands' regular trash, green waste or recycling…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

You can't just drag a mattress or old couch to the curb in Rialto and wait for someone to grab it. RMC § 8.08.610 bars…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Riverside residents can request bulky-item pickup for large appliances, furniture and mattresses, but items must be…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires multi-family residential properties to subscribe to a bulky-item removal service for tenants'…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Businesses and multi-family properties in unincorporated Sacramento County must subscribe to on-call bulky-item removal…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas defines "bulky waste" as oversized items such as appliances, furniture, auto parts, and tree stumps that don't…

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San Bernardino

Some Restrictions

Large household items like furniture, appliances and mattresses are bulky waste under Municipal Code Section 8.24.010…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

San Bernardino County bars residents from setting bulky wastes like appliances, furniture, tree limbs, and stumps out…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

Bulky items like furniture and appliances don't have to go in a container under San Clemente's code, but Section…

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San Jose

Some Restrictions

San Jose residents can set bulky goods, old furniture, appliances, tires, yard debris, on the public parkway only…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro residents cannot set large items like furniture, mattresses, appliances, or tires out with regular trash…

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.080 requires occupants who need more frequent pickups, or who have bulky debris…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael routes oversize items like furniture and appliances to debris box service since they're too large for normal…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

San Ramon residents get large, bulky items like furniture, mattresses and old appliances picked up only through the…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

Santa Ana's solid waste ordinance defines bulky items, furniture, mattresses, major appliances, up to 30-gallon bags of…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara's clean-up campaign lets residents set bulky items at the curb only during a scheduled collection week…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Santa Clarita residents cannot set bulky items like furniture or appliances at the curb on a whim. Municipal Code…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

A business in unincorporated Santa Cruz County that stores discarded materials in large quantities doesn't get to…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Franchise haulers in unincorporated Stanislaus County must give every residential customer two free bulky-item pickups…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton bans setting large household or bulky items out in the containers used for regular garbage, recycling, and…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Sunnyvale residents can only set out large discards like furniture, appliances, mattresses or carpet rolls when the…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Old furniture, mattresses, carpets, tires and white goods qualify as "Bulky Waste" under Thousand Oaks code, and…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Tulare County residents get large discarded items like furniture, mattresses and big appliances hauled…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City's solid waste franchisee must pick up bulky items like appliances from single-family homes up to twice a…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo defines 'bulky goods' as oversized items like furniture, mattresses and appliances that don't fit normal…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Bulky items like appliances, furniture, rugs, and large tree trimmings cannot go in a regular Victorville trash cart…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista's weekly cart service does not cover bulky furniture, appliances, or construction and demolition debris, or waste…

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West Covina

Some Restrictions

West Covina caps loose bulky items and tied bundles at three feet long, one foot in diameter and fifty pounds under…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento's solid waste ordinance defines bulky waste and puts the responsibility for hauling large discarded…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Furniture, appliances, and construction or demolition debris don't go in the regular cart in Westminster. Municipal…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier bans bulky items and large appliances from automated trash carts and compactors under Section 8.12.110(E)…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Yolo County, only your county-franchised hauler may legally collect bulky items like mattresses or…

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Yuba County

Some Restrictions

Large items like appliances, furniture, rocks, concrete, and dirt aren't part of regular refuse pickup in…

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Carlsbad

Light Restrictions

Bulky items in Carlsbad go through special collection service, not the regular cart, under Municipal Code Section…

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Fremont

Light Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.280(j) entitles every single-family residential property to two free bulky goods…

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Los Angeles

Light Restrictions

Los Angeles provides each dwelling unit a standard trash allowance (one 60-gallon black bin, one 90-gallon blue…

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Orange County

Light Restrictions

In unincorporated Orange County, your franchised trash hauler isn't required to take furniture, appliances or anything…

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Rohnert Park

Light Restrictions

Rohnert Park's solid waste code carves bulky waste, appliances, furniture, tires, carpets, mattresses, large auto…

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Santa Maria

Light Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.13 handles bulky waste an unusual accumulation regular weekly collection cannot…

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Solano County

Light Restrictions

Solano County defines bulky waste as oversized items like appliances, furniture, large auto parts and tree stumps that…

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Sonoma

Light Restrictions

Bulky items, discarded appliances and furniture cannot go out with the City of Sonoma's regular cart pickup. Sonoma…

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Vacaville

Light Restrictions

Vacaville does not put large household items like furniture, mattresses, or appliances at the curb automatically; VMC §…

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Ventura County

Light Restrictions

Under the County's residential collection agreements, unincorporated Ventura County single-family customers receive…

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Los Angeles County

Few Restrictions

Waste collectors in unincorporated LA County must collect large items that cannot fit in standard bins, such as stoves…

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Recycling Requirements

Mandatory recycling rules including which materials must be separated, contamination penalties, and composting requirements.

Elk Grove

Heavy Restrictions

California SB 1383 mandates organic waste diversion. All Elk Grove residents and businesses must separate food scraps…

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San Jose

Heavy Restrictions

San Jose requires every residential property to subscribe to weekly recycling, organic materials, and solid waste…

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San Mateo County

Heavy Restrictions

Recycling is part of the mandatory minimum residential service under County Code Chapter 4.04, with single-stream…

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Baldwin Park

Significant Restrictions

Baldwin Park requires every commercial generator and multi-family property to segregate recyclables and organic waste…

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Bellflower

Significant Restrictions

Bellflower's SB 1383 ordinance requires every household and business to subscribe to three-cart service and sort…

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Chula Vista

Significant Restrictions

Chula Vista requires nearly every owner and occupant in the city to subscribe to curbside recycling and organic waste…

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Compton

Significant Restrictions

Compton businesses and multifamily properties generating four cubic yards or more of solid waste a week must divert…

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Fullerton

Significant Restrictions

Fullerton requires every household and business that subscribes to franchised waste service to take part in the…

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Huntington Beach

Significant Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code Section 8.21.175 has required every business in the City, since July 1, 2012, to reuse…

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Inglewood

Significant Restrictions

Every Inglewood home and apartment building must subscribe to the City's franchised blue-container recycling service…

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Lancaster

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family home in Lancaster must subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste and recycling service…

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Merced

Significant Restrictions

Merced establishes a citywide recycling program for residences and businesses under Sec. 8.04.420, giving the director…

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Merced County

Significant Restrictions

Merced County requires every commercial business and multifamily property in the unincorporated area to subscribe to…

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Norwalk

Significant Restrictions

Norwalk requires every single-family household to subscribe to the City's organic waste and recycling collection…

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Pasadena

Significant Restrictions

Pasadena automatically enrolls every single-family household in a mandatory three-cart system under Municipal Code…

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Redondo Beach

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family household in Redondo Beach must be subscribed to the City's organic waste and recyclable materials…

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Riverside

Significant Restrictions

Municipal Code Section 6.06.040(A) requires every AB 341 business and multifamily covered generator in Riverside to…

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Roseville

Significant Restrictions

Roseville requires every "covered" construction, renovation or demolition project to divert at least 65% of its debris…

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Upland

Significant Restrictions

Every occupied property in Upland, residential or commercial, must subscribe to the city's authorized collector for…

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Vallejo

Significant Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.48.170 authorizes the city council to implement recycling programs by resolution in…

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West Covina

Significant Restrictions

West Covina requires every single-family household and commercial business to subscribe to the city's organic waste…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Recycling in Alameda is not optional curbside courtesy. Municipal Code Sec. 21-2.1(b) makes it mandatory for every…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Alameda County requires every single-family, multi-family, and commercial property to subscribe to a…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.050 requires every premises' operator to contract with a licensed collector for solid…

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Altadena

Some Restrictions

California SB 1383 requires all residents and businesses in Altadena to separate organic waste (food scraps + yard…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Anaheim requires residential recycling through the three-cart system per California SB 1383 and AB 341. Organic waste…

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Apple Valley

Some Restrictions

Every occupied household and commercial account in Apple Valley must subscribe to the Town's mandatory collection…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Bakersfield is subject to California's mandatory commercial and residential recycling laws, including AB 341 (mandatory…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley requires separation of recyclables and organics from trash for all residents and businesses under BMC 11.28…

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Bostonia

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Bostonia has mandatory recycling. County Code makes recycling required for all waste generated in…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Brentwood requires single-stream recycling via the blue cart and organics via the green cart under California SB 1383…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Every residential unit in Buena Park must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service and sort…

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Burbank

Some Restrictions

Mandatory recycling and organics separation required under SB 1383. Blue bin for recyclables, green bin for…

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Butte County

Some Restrictions

Butte County Code section 31-35(A) makes every licensed hauler divert at least twenty-five percent of the solid waste…

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Calaveras County

Some Restrictions

Calaveras County does not run a universal curbside recycling mandate; instead, § 8.12.060.C requires new commercial…

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Camarillo

Some Restrictions

Camarillo requires recycling under CMC Section 9.04.052 (commercial recycling) and Section 9.04.054 (organic waste…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Carlsbad's curbside recycling and food-scrap program exists because California law forces it: Public Resources Code…

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Carson

Some Restrictions

Carson's exclusive residential trash franchise must supply every household with at least one free recycling container…

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Ceres

Some Restrictions

Every Ceres home and small multifamily property must keep a dedicated blue recycling cart alongside its garbage and…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico prohibits solid waste collectors from sending recyclable materials gathered under the city's residential…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Chino must subscribe to a three-container collection service, a blue container for…

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills requires residential and commercial generators to source-separate recyclables such as paper, cardboard…

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Citrus Heights

Some Restrictions

Citrus Heights residents and businesses must separate recyclables and organic waste from trash under California SB 1383…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Clovis bills every curbside customer $2.49 a month for recycling and hands out two City-labeled containers at no…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

SB 1383 mandates organics recycling for all residents and businesses. Contra Costa County requires separation of…

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Corona

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Corona must subscribe to the franchisee's solid waste service and sort waste into the…

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Costa Mesa

Some Restrictions

Costa Mesa residents must separate recyclable materials into the blue recycling cart and organic waste into the green…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino requires multi-family properties and businesses generating four or more cubic yards of solid waste weekly to…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Every generator in Davis, from single-family homes to commercial businesses, must subscribe to the city's collection…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Downey runs its curbside recycling program on a three-container system defined by Municipal Code Section 5931: a Blue…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin, California requires every waste generator to source-separate recyclable materials and organic waste from…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale requires any commercial premises generating four cubic yards or more of solid waste weekly to subscribe to the…

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El Cajon

Some Restrictions

El Cajon residential recycling is mandatory under California's recycling laws and the city's waste hauler agreement…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido requires every household and business to separate recyclables and organic waste from trash and use the city's…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield requires every residential and commercial account to use the city-issued blue recycling cart and green…

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Fillmore

Some Restrictions

California mandates recycling through AB 341 and SB 1383. Fillmore residents must separate recyclables and organic…

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Fontana

Some Restrictions

Fontana runs a mandatory three-container system: green for organics and food waste, blue for recyclables, black for…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont requires residents and businesses to separate recyclables and organics from trash under state SB 1383 and local…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno mandates recycling participation under state laws including AB 341, AB 1826, and SB 1383. All residents must use…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

CA SB 1383 (effective 2022) mandates organic waste (food/yard) separation statewide. Fresno County provides three-cart…

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Galt

Some Restrictions

California SB 1383 requires all Galt residents and businesses to subscribe to organic waste (green cart) collection and…

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Garden Grove

Some Restrictions

Any new development in Garden Grove that needs a building permit must set aside space to collect and load recyclable…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Every household and business in Glendale must subscribe to the city's three-cart collection service, blue for…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

Commercial businesses and multi-family buildings with five or more units in unincorporated Glenn County must arrange…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford requires every single-family home to carry a blue recycling container as part of its mandatory three-container…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Every Hawthorne property owner or occupant must sign up for the city's franchised three-container collection service…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward follows California AB 341, AB 1826, and SB 1383, requiring residents and businesses to separate recyclables and…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Hemet requires businesses generating four or more cubic yards of trash weekly and multifamily buildings with five or…

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Hesperia

Some Restrictions

Hesperia multi-family complexes of five or more units must source-separate recyclables or use comparable mixed-waste…

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Indio

Some Restrictions

Under Indio's SB 1383 organic waste ordinance, every household must subscribe to the city's blue container recycling…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Every owner of a single-family, multi-family or commercial property in unincorporated Kern County must keep…

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Kings County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Kings County requires every home and business to subscribe to three-container collection, blue for…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood requires every single-family household to automatically subscribe to the city's three-container curbside…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Livermore requires every single-family household to subscribe to the city's franchised collection service for compost…

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Lodi

Some Restrictions

Every Lodi residence receives a blue-lidded recycling cart serviced every other week by WM; accepted materials include…

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Long Beach

Some Restrictions

Long Beach mandates recycling under LBMC §8.60.370 (effective Jan 2022) and SB 1383. All accounts are auto-enrolled in…

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Los Angeles

Some Restrictions

Los Angeles requires all premises receiving City collection service to use a three-container system and place…

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Los Banos

Some Restrictions

Los Banos requires curbside recycling participation for every single-family and multi-family residence that receives…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Madera must carry city refuse and recycling collection under Municipal Code Section 5-3.02…

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Madera County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Madera County channels recycling through its exclusive waste franchise system, which must collect…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca requires every single-family household to subscribe to three-cart curbside service and sort recyclables into…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.060 requires every residential generator in unincorporated Marin to sort waste into three…

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Martinez

Some Restrictions

Mandatory recycling and organics diversion apply to all Martinez residents and businesses under California SB 1383 and…

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Mendocino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Mendocino County requires source-separated recyclables to be kept out of the trash and placed in the…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee Municipal Code Section 6.30.080 requires every commercial property and multi-family dwelling to run a recycling…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Single-family households in Mission Viejo must subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto Code § 5-5.154 requires any business generating more than four cubic yards of solid waste a week, or any…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey requires every commercial business to supply visible, easily accessible recycling and organics containers in…

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Monterey County

Some Restrictions

Every property owner in unincorporated Monterey County must separate recyclables from other solid waste and put them in…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Moorpark enforces mandatory recycling under California SB 1383 and AB 341. All residents and businesses must subscribe…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley residents and businesses must separate organic waste, recyclables, and trash into the correct carts under…

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Mountain View

Some Restrictions

Mountain View residents and businesses must separate recyclables and organics from trash under California AB 341, AB…

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Murrieta

Some Restrictions

New construction and major additions in Murrieta must provide dedicated recycling and organics storage space under…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach residents must separate recyclables into the blue cart and organic waste into the green cart per…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Every Oakland single-family household must subscribe to the City's weekly recycling collection service, per Municipal…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Recycling is mandatory in Oceanside under state law. SB 1383 requires organic waste diversion. Businesses and…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario residents and businesses must separate recyclables and organics per California AB 341, AB 1826, and SB 1383…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

The City of Orange requires residential and commercial recycling under state mandates including AB 341 and SB 1383…

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Orange County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Orange County requires households to subscribe to the County's organic waste program and sort…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Oxnard mandates recycling and organic waste diversion under California SB 1383. All residents and businesses must…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

Pacifica Municipal Code Section 6-5.203 establishes a citywide recyclable materials collection program available to…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Every Single-Family Waste Generator in Palm Springs must subscribe to the City's three-container system and route…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale's franchised collector must give every home at least one free recycling container under Municipal Code Section…

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Palo Alto

Some Restrictions

Palo Alto requires residents and businesses to separate recyclables and organics from trash under SB 1383, AB 341, and…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Petaluma businesses and multifamily properties must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service and set…

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Pittsburg

Some Restrictions

Blue cart recycling in Pittsburg accepts clean paper, cardboard, rigid plastics #1-#5 and #7, aluminum, tin, and glass…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Once you set recyclables out in a designated bin or trash can in Pleasanton, they legally belong to the city's…

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Pomona

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home in Pomona must subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste and recycling collection…

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Port Hueneme

Some Restrictions

Port Hueneme requires residential recycling under California AB 341 and organics recycling under SB 1383. Recyclables…

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Rancho Cordova

Some Restrictions

California SB 1383 mandates organic waste diversion from all Rancho Cordova residents and businesses. Food scraps and…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Some Restrictions

Rancho Cucamonga residents must source-separate recyclables into the blue cart and organics into the green cart per…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Redding operates a single-stream blue cart for recycling under Redding Municipal Code Chapter 9.28 (Solid Waste and…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Redlands residents in the curbside recycling program must set recyclables out in the city-provided container at the…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Commercial businesses and multi-family properties in Redwood City must subscribe to the City's three-container…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Rialto businesses generating four cubic yards or more of solid waste each week must subscribe to the city's franchised…

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Richmond

Some Restrictions

Richmond uses single-stream recycling in the blue cart, collected weekly by Republic Services. California SB 1383…

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Ridgecrest

Some Restrictions

Ridgecrest bars mixing recyclables, organics, and trash: each must go only in its own marked container, part of the…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Riverside County residents and businesses must use the county's three-container system, separating…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park's curbside recycling program runs through a single authorized collector bound by Municipal Code Section…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento City Code requires every owner of residential and residential mixed-use property to subscribe to the city's…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sacramento County provides every-other-week curbside recycling, included in mandatory service. Accepted…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas Municipal Code Sec. 14-01.12 and 14-01.13 make recycling mandatory citywide: every generator, residential and…

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San Benito County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated San Benito County, every property owner must separate recyclables from other solid waste and use a…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated County residents receive a 96-gallon recycling cart from WM and must keep recyclables separate from…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente requires every single-family home to subscribe to the city's three-container collection service, sorting…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

San Diego requires recyclable materials to be placed in approved blue recycling containers per SDMC Chapter 6, Article…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Diego County requires residents and businesses to source-separate designated recyclables (paper…

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San Francisco

Some Restrictions

San Francisco's Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance (Environment Code Chapter 19, enacted 2009) was the first…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

Curbside recycling and SB 1383 organics diversion are mandatory in unincorporated San Joaquin County for all…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro requires every property that produces solid waste, recyclables, or green waste to subscribe to the City's…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

San Luis Obispo County requires every single-family home on franchised trash service to separate recyclables from…

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.120 requires the City's Contractor to supply every dwelling unit with one blue…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael requires every generator to source-separate recyclables into a recycling container and keep them out of the…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in San Ramon must subscribe to three-stream collection service, separate containers for solid…

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Sanger

Some Restrictions

Sanger requires all residents and businesses to separate recyclables and organic waste from trash under California SB…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

Santa Ana requires residential and commercial recycling under California's mandatory recycling laws including AB 341…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

Under Sec. 17-91, single-family organic waste generators in the unincorporated county must subscribe to the county's…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara mandates recycling and organics separation under California SB 1383. Residents must sort recyclables…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Santa Clara County requires source separation under its three-container system: recyclables go in the…

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Santa Clarita

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Santa Clarita requires every residence and business to keep separate garbage, recycling and organics containers…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Every residence and business in unincorporated Santa Cruz County has had to carry recyclable materials, organic…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.04 makes trash and recycling service mandatory for every occupied premises, or…

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Santa Monica

Some Restrictions

Santa Monica mandates recycling under SB 1383 organics diversion requirements. The city's Resource Recovery Division…

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Santa Paula

Some Restrictions

Santa Paula requires residential and commercial recycling under California AB 341 and SB 1383. Single-stream recycling…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.070(A)(2) limits recycling carts to recyclable materials only, no garbage or organic waste…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household and commercial generator in Simi Valley must participate in the City's three-container…

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Solano County

Some Restrictions

Homes in a Solano County mandatory service area, meaning parcels zoned Rural-Residential, Residential-Estate…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

Recycling in the City of Sonoma runs through one franchised hauler under Chapter 7.08 of the municipal code, and Sonoma…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires every home and business to keep separate blue, green, and gray containers and…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Owners and occupants in Stanislaus County's mandatory collection service area must subscribe to at least weekly…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton requires recyclable and organic materials to be separated from solid waste before collection under Section…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Before most building, demolition, grading, or paving permits are issued in Thousand Oaks, applicants must submit a…

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Torrance

Some Restrictions

AB 341 mandatory commercial recycling applies. Multi-family 5+ units and 3-4 units must have recycling programs. SB…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy's curbside recycling program, running since 1991, is mandatory: every single-family and multi-family residential…

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Truckee

Some Restrictions

Every commercial generator in Truckee must subscribe to franchisee recycling service and keep recyclables separated…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Tulare County requires every single-family home to subscribe to the county's three-container collection…

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Turlock

Some Restrictions

Turlock requires households and businesses to keep recyclables source-separated in a city-supplied container and set it…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City requires every household and business to set out recyclable material for at least weekly collection and use…

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Vacaville

Some Restrictions

All Vacaville residents must subscribe to and participate in the City's three-cart Recology service (gray garbage, blue…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

California's Mandatory Commercial Recycling Act (AB 341, PRC §42649) and the Mandatory Organic Waste Recycling Act (SB…

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Ventura County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Ventura County provides weekly curbside recycling in a blue cart through franchised haulers. Recycling…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Victorville requires recycling and solid waste processing service at every occupied property under Municipal Code…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista requires all residents and businesses to separate recyclables and organic waste from landfill trash under…

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Walnut Creek

Some Restrictions

Walnut Creek mandates curbside recycling under CA AB 341 (commercial) and AB 1826/SB 1383 (organics). Blue carts accept…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento requires recyclables and organic waste to be source-separated from garbage before collection, with…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Every property in Westminster must subscribe to refuse collection through the MCSD franchisee under Municipal Code §…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier requires the city or its contractor to furnish every residence a separate recyclable-materials container…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City requires every property that generates refuse to subscribe to the city's contracted collection service, and…

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Antioch

Light Restrictions

Antioch's curbside recycling is single-stream via Republic Services. SB 1383 mandates organics recycling (food scraps +…

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El Dorado County

Light Restrictions

Residents and tenants who want curbside recycling pickup in unincorporated El Dorado County must separate recyclables…

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Folsom

Light Restrictions

California SB 1383 requires Folsom residents and businesses to separate organic waste (food scraps, yard debris…

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Los Angeles County

Light Restrictions

Waste collectors serving designated unincorporated communities (including Altadena, La Crescenta/Montrose, East…

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Sonora

Light Restrictions

Sonora requires residential and commercial recycling through Cal-Waste Recovery Systems in compliance with California…

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Sunnyvale

Light Restrictions

Sunnyvale residents and businesses must source-separate recyclables and organics from trash to comply with state laws…

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Temecula

Light Restrictions

California SB 1383 requires all Temecula residents and businesses to separate organic waste (food scraps, food-soiled…

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Visalia

Light Restrictions

Every Visalia household and business must source-separate recyclables and organic waste into designated containers…

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Mandatory Organics Recycling

Curbside organics collection mandated by California SB-1383 (and equivalent state laws), residential opt-out rules, and edible-food-recovery requirements.

Bakersfield

Heavy Restrictions

Every single-family, multifamily, and commercial property owner in Bakersfield must arrange collection service and sort…

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Glendale

Heavy Restrictions

Every waste generator in Glendale, residents and businesses alike, must source-separate trash into three streams under…

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Kings County

Heavy Restrictions

Kings County requires single-family households to separate food scraps and yard waste into the green container under SB…

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Murrieta

Heavy Restrictions

Murrieta requires households and businesses to sort food scraps into the green organics container under Sections…

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San Bernardino County

Heavy Restrictions

Every single-family household in unincorporated San Bernardino County must subscribe to the County's organic waste…

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San Diego County

Heavy Restrictions

Unincorporated county property owners, occupants, and businesses must source-separate food scraps and green waste from…

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West Sacramento

Heavy Restrictions

West Sacramento requires households and businesses to subscribe to three-container collection and keep food scraps and…

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Alameda

Significant Restrictions

Alameda requires households and businesses alike to keep food scraps and other organic material out of the trash…

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Alhambra

Significant Restrictions

Every Alhambra household and business must subscribe to organics collection and sort waste into green, blue and…

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Baldwin Park

Significant Restrictions

Baldwin Park requires every single-family household to subscribe to a three-container collection system and sort food…

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Brentwood

Significant Restrictions

Brentwood businesses must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service, separating source-separated…

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Butte County

Significant Restrictions

Under Code section 31-81, homes and businesses in Butte County's mandatory service area or a recycling zone are…

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Camarillo

Significant Restrictions

Camarillo requires every single-family household to subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort…

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Chico

Significant Restrictions

Chico requires nearly every home and business to subscribe to city organic waste (food scrap) collection under…

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Compton

Significant Restrictions

Compton requires every home and business to subscribe to the city's three-container organics program under §§ 21-3.3…

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Costa Mesa

Significant Restrictions

Costa Mesa residents in single-family homes and buildings of four units or fewer must subscribe to organic waste…

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El Cajon

Significant Restrictions

El Cajon requires every residential premises to subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort food…

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El Monte

Significant Restrictions

El Monte automatically enrolls every single-family household in a mandatory three-container system for organic waste…

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Folsom

Significant Restrictions

Every Folsom residence and business must subscribe to organic waste collection service, separating green waste and food…

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Fresno County

Significant Restrictions

Fresno County requires every single-family household, multi-family property and business in the unincorporated area to…

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Fullerton

Significant Restrictions

Fullerton makes participation in organic waste diversion mandatory rather than optional. Any person or entity that…

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Hanford

Significant Restrictions

Hanford requires every customer to separate food scraps and yard waste into the green container as part of the city's…

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Huntington Beach

Significant Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code Section 8.22.020 requires every single-family household to subscribe to the City's…

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Imperial County

Significant Restrictions

Imperial County requires single-family households in the unincorporated area to subscribe to the county's organic waste…

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Inglewood

Significant Restrictions

Every Inglewood single-family home must subscribe to weekly three-container collection and sort food scraps and yard…

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Lancaster

Significant Restrictions

Lancaster requires every household, business, and multifamily property to subscribe to the city's three-container…

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Livermore

Significant Restrictions

Livermore requires every single-family household to subscribe to three-cart service and keep food scraps, recyclables…

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Long Beach

Significant Restrictions

Long Beach requires every single-family, multifamily and commercial account to separate food scraps and other organic…

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Los Banos

Significant Restrictions

Los Banos Municipal Code Chapter 3.2 implements state SB 1383 by requiring every single-family home, multifamily…

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Madera County

Significant Restrictions

SB 1383 census tracts in unincorporated Madera County must separate organic waste, via franchise collection, self-haul…

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Merced

Significant Restrictions

Merced requires commercial facilities, multifamily properties, and special events to separate organic material…

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Merced County

Significant Restrictions

Merced County requires every single-family household in the unincorporated area to subscribe to the county's organic…

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Moorpark

Significant Restrictions

Moorpark Municipal Code § 8.36.090 requires every single-family home, business and multifamily property to subscribe to…

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Mountain View

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family household in Mountain View must subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort…

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Norwalk

Significant Restrictions

Norwalk requires every single-family household to subscribe to the City's three-container collection service and sort…

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Oakland

Significant Restrictions

Every property owner in Oakland must separate solid waste, recyclables and organic material and either subscribe to the…

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Ontario

Significant Restrictions

Ontario requires every single-family household to subscribe to organic waste collection and separate food waste and…

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Orange County

Significant Restrictions

Single-family households in unincorporated Orange County must subscribe to the County's organic waste collection…

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Pacifica

Significant Restrictions

Pacifica Municipal Code Section 6-5.703 requires every single-family household to subscribe to the City's organic waste…

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Pasadena

Significant Restrictions

Pasadena requires every household and business to keep food scraps and other organic waste out of the trash can…

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Perris

Significant Restrictions

Perris requires all organic waste generators to subscribe to a three-container collection service, separating food…

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Petaluma

Significant Restrictions

Petaluma requires every single-family generator to subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort…

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Pomona

Significant Restrictions

Every Pomona household and business must subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort food and…

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Rancho Cordova

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family home, business, and multifamily property in Rancho Cordova must subscribe to organics container…

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Redlands

Significant Restrictions

Under SB 1383, Redlands single-family households must subscribe to three-container organic waste collection and sort…

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Redondo Beach

Significant Restrictions

Redondo Beach requires households and businesses to sort food waste out of the trash and into the green organics…

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Riverside

Significant Restrictions

Riverside Municipal Code Section 6.06.040 requires business and multifamily covered generators to subscribe to organics…

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Roseville

Significant Restrictions

Every single-family household and commercial generator in Roseville must subscribe to the city's organic waste…

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San Bernardino

Significant Restrictions

Every residential, commercial and multi-family generator in San Bernardino must subscribe to organic waste and…

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San Marcos

Significant Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.520 requires every single-family Organic Waste Generator to subscribe to the…

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San Ramon

Significant Restrictions

San Ramon requires every occupied property to keep a separate green bin for food scraps and other organic waste…

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Santa Ana

Significant Restrictions

Santa Ana single-family households must subscribe to weekly three-container service and route food scraps and yard…

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Santa Barbara County

Significant Restrictions

Commercial businesses and multi-family properties in unincorporated Santa Barbara County must subscribe to the county's…

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Santa Clara

Significant Restrictions

Santa Clara phased in mandatory organic waste recycling for commercial businesses under City Code Section 8.25.276…

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Santa Maria

Significant Restrictions

Santa Maria requires every single-family home, business and multifamily property of five or more units to subscribe to…

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Santa Monica

Significant Restrictions

Santa Monica requires all generators, residential and commercial, to use a three-container collection system (black…

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Santa Rosa

Significant Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.070 requires organic waste generators to comply with SB 1383, provides every residential…

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Tracy

Significant Restrictions

Since January 1, 2022, Tracy Municipal Code Section 5.20.160 makes the organic materials collection program mandatory…

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Vallejo

Significant Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.44.180 requires every single-family household, defined as a residential premises with…

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Victorville

Significant Restrictions

Victorville requires every single-family household to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort food scraps and…

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Westminster

Significant Restrictions

Under AB 1826, Westminster businesses and large multi-family facilities that generate enough refuse must…

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Whittier

Significant Restrictions

Every Whittier household must subscribe to the city's three-cart system and sort food scraps and other organic waste…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

State law (SB 1383) drives Alameda County's organics mandate: unincorporated single-family and commercial generators…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Anaheim requires every single-family household to subscribe to the city franchisee's Three-Container System and place…

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Antioch

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Antioch must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service, separating trash…

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Bellflower

Some Restrictions

Bellflower requires every single-family household to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort food scraps, yard…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Buena Park, California requires every residential unit to subscribe to the city's three-container collection service…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Carlsbad's SB 1383 implementation requires every generator to keep food scraps and yard trimmings out of the trash…

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Carson

Some Restrictions

Carson commercial businesses and multifamily properties must subscribe to three-container organics collection and…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Chino requires households and businesses to sort food waste and other organic material into the green container…

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills requires every residential, multifamily and commercial property to subscribe to the city's organic waste…

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Chula Vista

Some Restrictions

Chula Vista requires nearly every household and business to source-separate organic waste from garbage and recycling…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Clovis requires every residential and commercial generator to sort food scraps and other organic waste into the City's…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Contra Costa County requires every organic waste generator, homes and businesses alike, to either…

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Corona

Some Restrictions

Corona requires every commercial business, multi-family property of five or more units, and self-hauler to separate…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Every household and business in Cupertino must subscribe to organic waste collection and keep food scraps, yard…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Davis requires every customer to separate food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard waste into the green container and…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Downey must subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort food…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Since January 1, 2022, every waste generator in Dublin, California must subscribe to a minimum collection service that…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale requires every single-family home, business and multifamily property to comply with the state's organic waste…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Elk Grove requires every commercial generator, including multifamily complexes, to subscribe to and use a separate…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

California's SB 1383 organics law required Escondido to make food-scrap and yard-waste separation mandatory, and the…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield's Section 9.220 forces every Organic Waste Generator, from single-family homes to five-unit-plus apartment…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.100 requires every single-family and multifamily household to keep organics…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Every Fresno resident and business must subscribe to organics collection alongside trash and recycling: it isn't…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Every household and business in Hayward must subscribe to the city's franchised waste collection service, which sorts…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Businesses generating two or more cubic yards of solid waste weekly must subscribe to organic-waste recycling service…

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Hercules

Some Restrictions

Hercules Municipal Code Sec. 5-2.17 requires single-family homes, businesses, and multifamily properties to sort food…

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Indio

Some Restrictions

Indio's SB 1383 ordinance requires every household to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort food scraps and…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Any Irvine property subscribed to solid waste service must participate in the organics program its hauler offers and…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Kern County's SB 1383 rules require commercial edible food generators, grocery stores, food service providers and…

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Los Angeles

Some Restrictions

Los Angeles mandates that all organic waste generators, residents, commercial establishments, and multi-family…

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Los Angeles County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated LA County residents and businesses must divert organic waste from landfills by source-separating food…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Madera requires every single-family and commercial generator to subscribe to a three-container system and sort food and…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca requires single-family households and commercial generators to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.060 requires every residential household in the unincorporated area to subscribe to the…

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Mendocino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Mendocino County Code Sec. 9A.08.050 requires single-family homes to subscribe to three-container…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee Municipal Code Section 6.30.090 requires every commercial premises and multi-family dwelling that generates…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey requires every responsible party, whether homeowner, landlord, tenant or business, to separate food waste and…

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Monterey County

Some Restrictions

Implementing state SB 1383, Monterey County Code Chapter 10.45 applies only in the unincorporated area (§ 10.45.020)…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach requires every single-family household to separate food scraps from trash under Municipal Code Section…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Every generator in Oceanside, homes and businesses alike, must sort recyclables, organics, and food scraps into their…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.30.020 requires every single-family household to subscribe to the City's organic waste…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home, multi-family property and commercial business in Oxnard must subscribe to the city's organics…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Food Waste in Palm Springs must be drained of liquids and placed in a Green or Brown Container, composted on site, or…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale requires every single-family home and commercial business, including multifamily buildings, to subscribe to…

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Placer County

Some Restrictions

Under the Placer County Organic Waste Disposal Reduction Ordinance, implementing state SB 1383, every single-family…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Pleasanton Municipal Code § 9.23.020 adopts the Alameda County Waste Management Authority's organics ordinance, WMA…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Rancho Cucamonga must subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste service…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home in Redwood City must subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste collection service…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Rialto requires every single-family organic waste generator to subscribe to the city's three-container collection…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Riverside County requires every residential and commercial property to run the county's three-container…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Every household and business in Rohnert Park must source separate organic materials, including food waste, from garbage…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento sets minimum organics-recycling service levels by property type in City Code § 13.24.600(B), a 64-gallon can…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Every commercial generator in unincorporated Sacramento County must subscribe to source-separated organic material…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas requires every household and business to subscribe to three-container collection service, garbage, compost and…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

Under the state's SB 1383 program, every single-family household in San Clemente must subscribe to the City's…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

San Diego requires weekly separate-container collection of food material and food-soiled paper at residential and…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

San Joaquin County requires every single-family household to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort food and…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro's Organics Reduction and Recycling ordinance (SLMC Ch. 3-24) requires every household and business to…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

Single-family homes in unincorporated San Luis Obispo County must subscribe to weekly three-container collection…

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San Mateo County

Some Restrictions

Single-family homes in San Mateo County's densely-populated unincorporated areas must subscribe to their hauler's…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Under California SB 1383 and the County garbage code, residents and businesses in unincorporated Santa Clara County…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Santa Clarita requires every residence and business to keep organic waste, including food scraps, separated into a…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Santa Cruz County requires every household and business to subscribe to organic materials collection and…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Simi Valley requires every single-family household to sort waste into three carts: green for food scraps and yard…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

The City of Sonoma requires every single-family household to subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires every single-family, multi-family, and commercial property to subscribe to weekly…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Stanislaus County's mandatory collection service area must separate its trash into the…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

California SB 1383 requires Stockton residents and businesses to separate food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Sunnyvale requires large food businesses to divert edible food from the trash instead of throwing it away. Municipal…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home and individually-carted multi-family unit in Thousand Oaks must subscribe to Organic Waste…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

State-mandated SB 1383 organics recycling is enforced locally in unincorporated Tulare County: every single-family…

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Turlock

Some Restrictions

Every Turlock home and business must sort food scraps and other organic waste into the green compost container: mixing…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City requires every single-family household to subscribe to organics collection and sort food waste into the…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland requires single-family households to subscribe to organic waste collection and sort materials by container…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

Every single-family generator in the City of Ventura must subscribe to city trash service and sort waste into the blue…

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Ventura County

Some Restrictions

Households in unincorporated Ventura County must sort their waste under Ordinance Code § 4770-3(c): organic waste…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Single-family homes in a county-designated Densely Populated Area must subscribe to bi-weekly Organics Collection…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City implements California's SB 1383 organics law locally under Municipal Code Section 6-3.19, letting the city…

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Glenn County

Light Restrictions

In unincorporated Glenn County, single-family households are only encouraged, not required, to separate food scraps and…

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Valet Trash Rules

Multi-family building rules around door-to-door (valet) trash and recycling service, including container standards, hallway-storage prohibitions, and fees.

Illegal Dumping

Penalties and enforcement for dumping trash, debris, or hazardous materials on private or public property without authorization.

Alameda

Heavy Restrictions

Alameda bans using any land in the city, owned or merely occupied, as a dumping ground for solid waste or any other…

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Alameda County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping refuse, garbage, or rubbish anywhere in unincorporated Alameda County outside an approved container is unlawful…

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Alhambra

Heavy Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.250(K) makes it unlawful to dump, deposit, release, spill, leak, pour, bury or otherwise…

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Anaheim

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste, medical waste or household hazardous waste on someone else's property, on a public street, or…

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Apple Valley

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping "commercial quantities" of waste, defined as one cubic yard or more, on public or private property in Apple…

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Bakersfield

Heavy Restrictions

Bakersfield bans dumping any solid waste, recyclables, organic waste, bulky items, or construction debris on public or…

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Baldwin Park

Heavy Restrictions

Baldwin Park treats illegal dumping as more than a nuisance violation: under Municipal Code Chapter 95.5, any vehicle…

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Bellflower

Heavy Restrictions

The City of Bellflower, Los Angeles County makes it unlawful to place, discharge, or dump pollutants or debris…

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Buena Park

Heavy Restrictions

Buena Park bans burning, burying, or dumping solid waste anywhere in the city without a special council or fire…

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Butte County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste anywhere in unincorporated Butte County without a licensed hauler is a misdemeanor under Code…

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Camarillo

Heavy Restrictions

Camarillo bans dumping, spilling, discarding or abandoning solid waste anywhere in the city outside an authorized…

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Carson

Heavy Restrictions

Carson bans dumping trash, debris or dead animals on any public or private property, with jail time possible for…

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Chino Hills

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid or liquid waste anywhere on property within Chino Hills is unlawful under Municipal Code § 13.20.330…

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Chula Vista

Heavy Restrictions

Chula Vista makes it unlawful to place, dump, deposit, or throw any solid waste, plastic, glass, metal, paper…

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Clovis

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping waste matter on a vacant lot, street, alley, gutter, highway, park, or other public place is unlawful in…

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Concord

Heavy Restrictions

Illegal dumping of waste on public or private property in Concord is prohibited under Concord Municipal Code Title 6…

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Corona

Heavy Restrictions

Corona bans dumping, placing, or burying any solid waste on public or private land, or in any water or waterway, under…

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Costa Mesa

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid, hazardous or infectious waste on private or public property in Costa Mesa without the owner's consent…

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Downey

Heavy Restrictions

Downey Municipal Code Section 4116 bans dumping garbage, trash, dead animals, or any nauseous or offensive matter on…

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Eastvale

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping or leaving solid waste on any property in Eastvale without authorization is unlawful under Municipal Code…

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El Dorado County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, scattering or discarding litter or solid waste on any road, right-of-way, or public or private property in…

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El Monte

Heavy Restrictions

El Monte bars illegally dumping solid waste, bulky items, or hazardous materials on any public or private property…

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Escondido

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, burning, burying, or otherwise disposing of solid waste, recyclable material, or organic waste anywhere on…

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Fairfield

Heavy Restrictions

Fairfield's Section 9.280 makes it unlawful at any time to dump, burn, bury, spill, or otherwise release solid waste…

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Folsom

Heavy Restrictions

Folsom Municipal Code 8.32.005(Y) defines illegal dumping as throwing or placing solid waste, recyclables, organic…

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Fontana

Heavy Restrictions

Fontana makes it unlawful to dump, deposit, place or bury refuse on any lot, land, public place or waterway, and any…

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Fremont

Heavy Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.400 bars dumping, depositing, or disposing of waste or garbage anywhere in the city…

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Fresno County

Heavy Restrictions

Fresno County treats illegal dumping as a misdemeanor and a public nuisance under Chapter 8.22, adopted by Ordinance…

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Fullerton

Heavy Restrictions

Fullerton Municipal Code Chapter 5.13 bans throwing, placing or depositing litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish on any…

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Glenn County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping or depositing refuse or rubbish anywhere in unincorporated Glenn County, California, other than an approved…

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Hanford

Heavy Restrictions

Hanford bans bringing and dumping refuse, furniture, or surplus material from another property onto any public or…

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Hesperia

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping trash or debris on public property or someone else's private property is a declared public nuisance in…

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Huntington Beach

Heavy Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code Section 8.21.040 bans casting, depositing or leaving refuse anywhere in the City…

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Indio

Heavy Restrictions

Indio bans dumping trash, refuse, or abandoned items on any street, storm drain, or public or private land, with fines…

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Inglewood

Heavy Restrictions

Inglewood's Stormwater Management and Discharge Control Ordinance bans dumping refuse, rubbish, garbage or animal feces…

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Kern County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping discarded materials on a public right-of-way, vacant lot or waterway in unincorporated Kern County is a…

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Lake Forest

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste on public property, or on private land near a highway or home, is unlawful in Lake Forest…

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Lancaster

Heavy Restrictions

Lancaster defines illegal dumping as disposing of rocks, debris, furniture, equipment, vehicles or any waste on public…

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Long Beach

Heavy Restrictions

Long Beach Municipal Code § 8.60.120 bans depositing waste on any public street, public place or private parcel to…

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Los Angeles

Heavy Restrictions

Under LAMC § 41.70.3, any vehicle used to dump or haul bulky items, hazardous waste, or solid waste onto property not…

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Los Angeles County

Heavy Restrictions

In unincorporated LA County, any vehicle used to dump bulky items, hazardous waste, or solid waste on public or private…

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Madera County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste, organic waste, or other regulated materials anywhere but a designated facility in unincorporated…

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Manteca

Heavy Restrictions

Manteca bans dumping refuse, litter, or garbage on any public or private property, street, or storm drain as pollution…

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Marin County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping garbage, rubbish or refuse on any public or private road, right-of-way or property without the owner's consent…

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Martinez

Heavy Restrictions

Illegal dumping on public property, vacant lots, or waterways within Martinez is prohibited under Municipal Code…

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Menifee

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping trash, debris, or construction waste on any public or private property in Menifee is banned outright under…

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Merced County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping discarded materials anywhere but an approved container or a permitted resource management facility is unlawful…

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Mission Viejo

Heavy Restrictions

Mission Viejo makes it unlawful to dump, spill, bury or abandon solid or liquid waste anywhere in the city outside an…

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Modesto

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping garbage, recycling, organic waste, green waste, hazardous waste, or bulky items on public or private property…

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Monterey County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping refuse anywhere except a permitted disposal facility is banned in unincorporated Monterey County under Monterey…

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Moorpark

Heavy Restrictions

Moorpark makes it unlawful to dump, spill, bury, or discharge solid or liquid waste on any property in the city outside…

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Moreno Valley

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping on someone else's property without consent, or on public land outside a lawful receptacle, is a misdemeanor in…

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Mountain View

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, throwing or depositing refuse on any public right-of-way, waterway or private property other than an approved…

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Newport Beach

Heavy Restrictions

Newport Beach bans dumping solid waste or divertible material on another person's property, on public streets, beaches…

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Norwalk

Heavy Restrictions

Norwalk makes it unlawful, at any time, for anyone, including licensed collectors, to burn, bury or dump solid waste or…

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Oakland

Heavy Restrictions

Oakland Municipal Code § 8.11.310 makes illegal dumping of waste matter on public or private property unlawful…

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Oakley

Heavy Restrictions

Illegal dumping of trash, debris, furniture, or hazardous materials on public or private property in Oakley is…

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Oceanside

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping discarded materials on any public place, street, alley, beach, park, or someone else's property without consent…

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Ontario

Heavy Restrictions

Ontario Municipal Code Section 6-3.206 bans dumping, placing or burying solid waste, condemned substances or any…

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Orange

Heavy Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.29.070 makes it unlawful to dump solid waste or recyclables on any public or private…

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Oxnard

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste on any Oxnard street, alley, or city-owned property outside a designated container is banned…

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Palmdale

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping any waste matter or bulky item on public or private property without consent is illegal in Palmdale under PMC…

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Pasadena

Heavy Restrictions

Pasadena bans leaving any bulky item, solid waste, abandoned vehicle or discarded material of any kind in a public…

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Perris

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping garbage, dead animals, waste matter, or rubbish on any lot, street, alley, or waterway in Perris, California is…

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Petaluma

Heavy Restrictions

Petaluma bans dumping sweepings, garbage, weeds, dirt or any refuse into streets, gutters, sidewalks, vacant lots or…

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Pleasanton

Heavy Restrictions

Pleasanton Municipal Code § 9.20.030(D) makes it unlawful to dump, place or bury garbage, trash, rubbish, manure or…

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Pomona

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping refuse on another person's property, a public street, alley or vacant lot in Pomona violates City Code Sections…

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Rancho Cordova

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, depositing, or releasing solid waste on public or private property in Rancho Cordova, including streets…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, burning, or burying refuse anywhere in Rancho Cucamonga is flatly illegal unless the city council or the fire…

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Redlands

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, placing or burying solid waste, green waste, recyclables or any other deleterious or offensive substance on…

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Rialto

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping waste matter on any public or private road, right-of-way, park or private property without consent is unlawful…

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Riverside

Heavy Restrictions

It's unlawful to throw, drop, dump, bury, or burn garbage, refuse, or solid waste on any lot, street, alley or waterway…

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Rohnert Park

Heavy Restrictions

Rohnert Park makes it unlawful to throw or deposit solid waste on a vacant lot, in a backyard, street, alley, park, or…

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Roseville

Heavy Restrictions

Roseville makes it unlawful to throw garbage or scraps in or on any public place unless it goes into a receptacle…

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Sacramento County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste, organic material, or recyclables on public or private property in unincorporated Sacramento County…

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San Benito County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste, soil, or fill material anywhere in unincorporated San Benito County other than an approved solid…

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San Bernardino

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping garbage or waste on any San Bernardino lot, street, alley or waterway is unlawful under Municipal Code Section…

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San Clemente

Heavy Restrictions

It's unlawful to throw or deposit litter on any private property in San Clemente, occupied or vacant, under Sections…

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San Diego

Heavy Restrictions

Spilling, depositing, or abandoning solid waste, hazardous waste, or recyclable material on any highway or public or…

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San Jose

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste or hazardous materials on public or private property is banned citywide; violators face criminal…

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San Luis Obispo County

Heavy Restrictions

Section 8.12.920 of the County Code makes it illegal to dump solid waste or recyclables on any public right-of-way…

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San Marcos

Heavy Restrictions

San Marcos bans spilling or dumping refuse on any private ground or public street and separately outlaws accumulating…

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San Mateo County

Heavy Restrictions

Unincorporated San Mateo County treats illegal dumping as a misdemeanor and littering as an infraction, with major…

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San Ramon

Heavy Restrictions

Illegal dumping in San Ramon is prohibited under the municipal code and California Penal Code 374.3. Fines start at…

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Santa Ana

Heavy Restrictions

Santa Ana bans dumping trash, garbage, refuse or other filth on any public or private alley, street, watercourse or…

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Santa Clara

Heavy Restrictions

Santa Clara makes it unlawful to dispose of refuse on City-controlled disposal land outside the terms of Chapter 8.25…

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Santa Cruz County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping in unincorporated Santa Cruz County outside an approved container or resource management facility is banned…

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Santa Monica

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid or liquid waste in storm drains, streets, sidewalks, public parks, or the beach is unlawful in Santa…

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Santa Rosa

Heavy Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.050 makes it unlawful to dump, litter, burn, or bury garbage, recyclables, organic waste…

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Shasta County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping refuse or rubbish anywhere in Shasta County outside a site the board of supervisors has designated for disposal…

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Temecula

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste on any Temecula property without a conditional use permit is unlawful under Municipal Code Section…

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Thousand Oaks

Heavy Restrictions

Burying or dumping solid waste, recyclables or organic waste anywhere in Thousand Oaks is unlawful at any time, and the…

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Tracy

Heavy Restrictions

Tracy makes it a misdemeanor to throw or deposit rubbish on any public street or alley. Tracy Municipal Code section…

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Truckee

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping solid waste, litter or animal carcasses on any public or private property in Truckee, including streets…

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Turlock

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping garbage, organic waste, or recyclables on city property or in someone else's collection container is banned…

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Union City

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping, burning, or burying solid waste anywhere in Union City is prohibited outright, with violations treated as a…

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Vacaville

Heavy Restrictions

Vacaville Municipal Code § 8.08.030 bans throwing, depositing, or accumulating solid waste, construction debris…

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Vallejo

Heavy Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.44.100 bans dumping solid waste, bulky goods, green waste, recyclables, junk, debris…

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Victorville

Heavy Restrictions

Victorville treats illegal dumping as a nuisance under Municipal Code Section 13.05.010, and any vehicle used to dump…

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West Covina

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping junk, debris or waste of any kind on public or private land in West Covina without the property owner's written…

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West Sacramento

Heavy Restrictions

West Sacramento expressly bans scavenging from waste containers and prohibits burying or burning any solid, hazardous…

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Westminster

Heavy Restrictions

Westminster bans placing, throwing or dumping any refuse, bulky item, or hazardous waste on public or private property…

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Yuba City

Heavy Restrictions

Yuba City bans throwing or leaving refuse, rubbish, garbage or litter on any public or private property, street…

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Yuba County

Heavy Restrictions

Dumping refuse, construction debris, or litter on public property, a right-of-way, or private property without the…

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Bishop

Significant Restrictions

Bishop Municipal Code 8.28.020 prohibits depositing litter anywhere except public receptacles, private receptacles for…

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Calaveras County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping solid waste anywhere except an authorized transfer station, disposal site or serviced storage container is…

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Carlsbad

Significant Restrictions

Dumping solid waste anywhere in Carlsbad other than an approved, franchisee-serviced container is unlawful under…

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Ceres

Significant Restrictions

Dumping waste on City or private property in Ceres is a misdemeanor, with escalating fines from $100 to $250 for repeat…

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Compton

Significant Restrictions

A vehicle used to illegally dump waste in Compton can be seized and impounded for up to 30 days once the driver has a…

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Cupertino

Significant Restrictions

Dumping refuse, garbage or hazardous waste on a Cupertino street, alley, gutter or park is unlawful under Section…

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Davis

Significant Restrictions

Davis bans dumping refuse, garbage, or other discarded material anywhere it could reach the storm drain system…

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Dublin

Significant Restrictions

Dublin, California bans throwing or depositing refuse, rubbish, garbage or other discarded objects on any street…

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El Cajon

Significant Restrictions

El Cajon bans dumping solid waste, recyclables or yard waste on any private property in the city, including a…

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Fresno

Significant Restrictions

Fresno Municipal Code § 10-611 makes unauthorized dumping and illegal storage of junk, rubbish, or vehicles on land a…

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Garden Grove

Significant Restrictions

Garden Grove's Stormwater Quality chapter bans dumping any waste, including household rubbish or garbage, on public…

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Hayward

Significant Restrictions

Hayward makes it unlawful to bury solid waste, hazardous waste, or infectious waste anywhere in the city, including…

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Hemet

Significant Restrictions

Hemet City Code § 53-9 bans littering and dumping solid waste, construction debris, green waste, e-waste or hazardous…

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Kings County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping solid waste anywhere in unincorporated Kings County outside an approved three-container collection service is…

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Lake County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping refuse, garbage, junk, cans or rubbish on any public highway, right-of-way, camping place or public ground in…

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Lakewood

Significant Restrictions

Dumping refuse on someone else's property without consent, or on public property outside a designated dump, is banned…

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Livermore

Significant Restrictions

It's unlawful in Livermore to let your own land become a dumping ground or to deposit solid waste on anyone else's…

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Lodi

Significant Restrictions

It's unlawful in Lodi to throw or deposit refuse, dirt, glass or rubbish on any street, gutter, ditch or private…

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Los Banos

Significant Restrictions

Dumping junk or nuisance vegetation on public or private property in Los Banos is an abatable nuisance and a criminal…

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Madera

Significant Restrictions

Madera bans throwing or depositing refuse on anyone else's property, streets, alleys, or public places outside…

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Mendocino County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping refuse on public property, rights-of-way, watercourses, or someone else's land anywhere in unincorporated…

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Merced

Significant Restrictions

Dumping solid waste on someone else's property, a street, alley, or public place is unlawful in Merced under Municipal…

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Monterey

Significant Restrictions

Monterey makes it unlawful to place, keep or deposit solid waste anywhere on a street, sidewalk, alley or public or…

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Orange County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping solid waste within 1,000 feet of a public highway or 500 feet of a home in unincorporated Orange County is…

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Palm Springs

Significant Restrictions

Palm Springs declares unsightly, dumped refuse and waste a public nuisance under Municipal Code Section 11.72.030…

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Placer County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping waste matter on public or private property you do not own is a misdemeanor or infraction under Placer County…

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Ridgecrest

Significant Restrictions

Ridgecrest bans letting trash pile up on public or private property, requires removal at least every two weeks, and…

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Riverside County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping trash, debris or demolition material on public or private land in unincorporated Riverside County draws…

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Salinas

Significant Restrictions

Salinas bans depositing garbage, recyclables, construction debris or organic waste on any public or private property…

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San Bernardino County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping waste on public or private land in unincorporated San Bernardino County is an infraction or misdemeanor, with…

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San Francisco

Significant Restrictions

San Francisco can fine illegal dumpers up to $1,000 per day for each violation by administrative citation, on top of…

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San Leandro

Significant Restrictions

Dumping refuse on streets, sidewalks, storm drains, or private lots is banned citywide under San Leandro's storm water…

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San Rafael

Significant Restrictions

Dumping, burying, or abandoning solid waste on private property, streets, parks, or waterways in San Rafael is banned…

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Santa Barbara County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping, burying, or throwing solid waste or litter on any open, vacant, or private property in unincorporated Santa…

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Santa Clara County

Significant Restrictions

Throwing away, dumping, or burying refuse anywhere but an approved disposal site is unlawful in unincorporated Santa…

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Santa Clarita

Significant Restrictions

Santa Clarita makes it unlawful to dump, spill, bury or abandon solid or liquid waste anywhere in the City outside an…

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Simi Valley

Significant Restrictions

Simi Valley prohibits dumping discards, solid waste, or recyclables on the ground, in water, or in any place where they…

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Solano County

Significant Restrictions

Dumping or discarding litter anywhere in unincorporated Solano County outside a lawful container or disposal area is an…

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South Gate

Significant Restrictions

South Gate makes it a public nuisance to dump rubbish, garbage, bulky items, or hazardous waste on any street…

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Stanislaus County

Significant Restrictions

Stanislaus County bars dumping discarded materials on your own or anyone else's property without the environmental…

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Upland

Significant Restrictions

Upland Municipal Code § 13.28.370 outright bans burning, burial, or dumping of solid waste, recyclables, or organic…

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Vista

Significant Restrictions

Vista bans letting solid waste pile up into an offensive, unsightly, or fire-hazardous condition, and separately bans…

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Antioch

Some Restrictions

Illegal dumping in Antioch violates Municipal Code Chapter 6-5 and California Penal Code §374.3. Fines range from…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Dumping trash, litter or debris on Berkeley streets, parks or into creeks and other waterways is unlawful under BMC §…

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Bostonia

Some Restrictions

Illegal dumping is prohibited in unincorporated Bostonia. San Diego County Code declares it a public nuisance to place…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Illegal dumping in Brentwood is a misdemeanor and civil violation under Municipal Code Chapter 8.12 and California…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico makes it unlawful to throw or deposit garbage, rubbish, or waste on any street, private premises, or into a sewer…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Chino bans throwing, dumping or burying solid waste on someone else's private property or on any street, sidewalk…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

Contra Costa County Code Chapter 418-10 and Penal Code 374.3 make illegal dumping a misdemeanor with fines up to…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Elk Grove bans dumping or littering waste on public property or someone else's private property without permission…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale bans dumping litter and refuse on any street, alley, sidewalk or private lot, whether occupied or vacant…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne Code § 8.16.020 bars anyone from dumping, placing or burying discarded materials or health-officer-condemned…

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Imperial County

Some Restrictions

Dumping waste on public or private property in unincorporated Imperial County without legal permission is an infraction…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Irvine's Municipal Code bars anyone from discarding waste material, household rubbish, garbage or any other refuse, on…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

In the City of Pacifica, it is unlawful to throw, deposit or accumulate litter on any public place or private premises…

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Pittsburg

Some Restrictions

Pittsburg Municipal Code Chapter 8.12 and California Penal Code §374.3 prohibit dumping waste on public or private…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Dumping garbage, rubbish, or any nuisance matter on Redding streets, sidewalks, parks, vacant lots, or private property…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Redondo Beach makes it unlawful to throw or deposit glass, dirt, rubbish, garbage, filth, oil-sump cleanings, or…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Redwood City Code section 14.5 makes it unlawful to dump, place or bury refuse or condemned waste matter in any lot…

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Richmond

Some Restrictions

Richmond has a persistent illegal dumping problem along industrial corridors and undeveloped parcels and aggressively…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

Dumping, placing, or burying discarded materials on streets, parks, or public or private property in unincorporated San…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

Illegal dumping in unincorporated San Joaquin County is an infraction, with fines escalating up to $500 per repeat…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria makes it unlawful to deposit rubbish, paper, tree trimmings, earth, rock, garbage, ashes or other debris on…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

Dumping trash, garbage or debris anywhere in a City of Sonoma park or recreation area outside the receptacles provided…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton's illegal dumping ordinance, Chapter 8.104, makes it an infraction to deposit, drop, or throw waste matter…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Dumping trash, debris or refuse anywhere in Sunnyvale outside a designated disposal site is a standalone violation…

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Tehama County

Some Restrictions

Dumping garbage, waste or refuse anywhere in unincorporated Tehama County besides an approved disposal site, including…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Dumping or accumulating solid waste on any street, road or premises in unincorporated Tulare County is unlawful; the…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

Ventura Municipal Code Section 8.250.020 makes it unlawful to dump solid waste, waste matter, rocks or dirt on any…

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Visalia

Some Restrictions

Visalia prohibits burying refuse, depositing trash into someone else's bins, hauling refuse through city streets…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier bans dumping trash, tires, batteries, or other pollutants into the city's storm drain system under Municipal…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Yolo County Code Sec. 6-7.02 bans placing, depositing, or dumping litter on any public or private property in the…

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Yard Waste Collection

Rules for separating grass clippings, leaves, branches, and other yard waste from regular trash, including pickup days and bag/bin requirements.

Lodi

Significant Restrictions

Single-family households in Lodi must subscribe to the city's organic waste collection service and sort yard trimmings…

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San Marcos

Significant Restrictions

Anyone operating a green waste recycling, mulching or composting yard in San Marcos needs a Fire Department permit…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Alameda County residents must place yard waste, trash, and recycling containers curbside for pickup…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.160(G) requires green waste to be cut no longer than four feet and no thicker than four…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Anaheim requires yard trimmings to go in the green Organic Materials Container, but only if they are cut down to size…

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Apple Valley

Some Restrictions

Grass clippings, tree trimmings and other landscape debris are 'organic waste' under Apple Valley's SB 1383 program and…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Bakersfield requires grass clippings in organic-waste carts or cardboard under 50 pounds, and green waste bundled or…

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Bellflower

Some Restrictions

Bellflower requires yard waste like grass, shrubs and small tree trimmings to go in the green organics cart, not the…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley collects yard waste (grass, leaves, prunings) through the same City curbside cart system used for garbage and…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Tree branches and limbs too big for the green organics cart must be bundled with sturdy twine, no more than 4 feet long…

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Carson

Some Restrictions

Every Carson home must subscribe to three-container trash service and put yard trimmings and other green waste in the…

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Ceres

Some Restrictions

Ceres runs a seasonal leaf-and-limb pickup from October 1 through January 9, collecting loose leaves and tree limbs in…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico requires yard debris set out for pickup in a closed-lid receptacle or in secured bundles no longer than four feet…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Chino requires garden trimmings too large for a container to be tied into size- and weight-limited bundles for pickup.

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills defines yard waste as leaves, grass clippings, brush and branches source-separated from other trash, and…

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Chula Vista

Some Restrictions

Chula Vista collects leaves, grass, weeds, and tree or shrub wood as "Yard Waste" under CVMC 8.25.020, but excludes…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Clovis provides every residential customer with once-a-week greenwaste pickup on the same day as regular trash…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Yard trimmings in Compton have size limits before they can go out for collection: § 21-1.4(b)(7) requires green waste…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino requires outdoor trash, recycling, and yard waste receptacles to stay closed so material is not scattered by…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Davis lets residents pile leaves and prunings up to five feet in each dimension in the street for uncontainerized…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Downey requires green waste to be cut down before it goes in the bin: branches can be no longer than four feet and no…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin, California requires every residential property to keep a dedicated organic waste container alongside its solid…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale residents sort yard trimmings into the city's green container under the three-container recycling system…

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El Dorado County

Some Restrictions

Under El Dorado County Code Section 8.45.040, every single-family household must subscribe to organic waste collection…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Elk Grove requires every residential generator to separate grass clippings, leaves, weeds, brush, and tree trimmings as…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Folsom collects yard waste through its green organic waste cart, not as a separate brush pickup. Branches must be under…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno Municipal Code § 6-202(ll) defines "green waste material" as decomposable landscape debris, clippings, leaves…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

Fresno County requires unincorporated-area households to separate green waste from trash and place it in the…

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Fullerton

Some Restrictions

Fullerton Municipal Code § 5.14.010 defines yard waste as leaves, grass cuttings and shrubs from routine property…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale directs residents to place yard trimmings, food scraps and other organic waste in the green container for…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Glenn County, solid waste, green waste and recycling containers cannot sit in a front or side yard…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford, California requires organic yard waste in the green cart; oversized tree trimmings and limbs under four inches…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne requires every property to carry the city's franchised three-container collection service, but yard waste…

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Hercules

Some Restrictions

Hercules defines yard clippings, tree and shrub trimmings, and grass cuttings as 'green waste' under Municipal Code…

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Hesperia

Some Restrictions

Hesperia's code defines yard waste as leaves, grass clippings, brush and branches, but branches or stumps over three…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Huntington Beach Municipal Code Section 8.21.020 makes the City's contracted refuse collector the exclusive hauler of…

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Inglewood

Some Restrictions

Tree and bush trimmings set out for Inglewood's weekly collection must be bundled to a strict size, four feet long…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood requires greenwaste to go in a resident-owned 20- to 40-gallon galvanized metal, heavy-duty plastic, or…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Lancaster's code defines what counts as green waste for curbside collection: tree trimmings, grass cuttings, leaves…

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Long Beach

Some Restrictions

Long Beach requires green waste, tree limbs, shrubs, trimmings and grass clippings, to go inside city-issued carts…

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Los Angeles

Some Restrictions

Los Angeles requires that grass clippings and vegetative waste generated on development projects be recycled on-site or…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Every solid waste customer in Madera must sort green and yard waste from garbage before collection, under Madera…

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Madera County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Madera County's solid waste code defines yard waste, grass, leaves, prunings, branches, and small wood…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Manteca requires commercial properties generating two or more cubic yards of green waste weekly to subscribe to the…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee defines yard waste as leaves, grass cuttings and shrubs from routine property upkeep under Menifee Code of…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Merced defines 'green waste' as yard trimmings, plant waste and untreated wood, distinct from treated wood or…

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Merced County

Some Restrictions

Merced County limits how residents in the unincorporated area may set out grass clippings, tree trimmings, and other…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Mission Viejo requires yard trimmings to be cut to no more than four feet long and four inches thick before curbside…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto's Public Works Department picks up large green waste once a month from January through November under Modesto…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey defines yard waste as organic material from routine yard and landscaping work and routes it through the…

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Monterey County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Monterey County, single-family households must subscribe to the County's organic waste collection…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Moorpark requires yard waste cut to no more than 4 feet long and 6 inches in diameter and set out only in designated…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley classifies grass clippings and trimmings as "green waste," collected weekly in the standard automated…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach requires green waste and wood waste collected in the City to be composted on site or delivered to a…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk requires every residential household to keep a dedicated greenwaste container separate from trash and…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Grass clippings, leaves, tree trimmings and other "green material, landscape and pruning waste" are legally "Organic…

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Oakley

Some Restrictions

Oakley's green organics cart accepts yard trimmings AND food scraps as required by California SB 1383, collected weekly…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Single-family homes and mobile homes in Oxnard must receive a 96-gallon green and organics waste container serviced…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Green Waste set out for the City's hauler in Palm Springs must go in the Green Container designated under § 6.04.040…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale single-family homes must subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste service under Municipal Code…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Pasadena defines yard waste narrowly and requires it to go in its own city-issued cart. Municipal Code Section…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Petaluma's garbage collector picks up garden and tree trimmings at the curb, but only within fixed limits: tree…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Yard trimmings count as 'organic waste' under Pleasanton's solid waste code, and every residential, commercial and…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Redding collects tree trimmings, limbs, trunks, stumps, brush, and garden trimmings without a can, but only if each…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Redlands requires properties enrolled in its green waste program to put yard trimmings only in the designated green…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Rialto must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service and sort yard…

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Ridgecrest

Some Restrictions

Ridgecrest, Kern County, California defines yard trimmings as organic waste and bars accumulating it on a property…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Riverside's code defines exactly what counts as 'green materials' that must go in the organics cart, yard trimmings…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Riverside County requires unincorporated residents to place lawn trimmings, green material and other yard waste in the…

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Roseville

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Roseville must subscribe to organic (green) waste collection service under Municipal…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento bars dumping yard waste in streets or gutters except through its seasonal loose-in-the-street collection…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sacramento County folds yard waste into mandatory organic material collection: County Code Section…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas requires every generator, residential and commercial alike, to subscribe to the city's exclusive franchisee's…

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San Bernardino

Some Restrictions

Routine yard waste like grass clippings, leaves and tree trimmings goes out with organic waste collection under…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Bernardino County homes must subscribe to organic waste collection and sort green waste like grass…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

San Diego's Recycling Ordinance requires weekly separate-container collection of yard trimmings and wood waste at…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Diego County requires residents in densely populated areas to source-separate yard trimmings, brush…

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San Jose

Some Restrictions

San Jose caps curbside yard waste piles at five feet in any dimension and requires them set at least one foot from the…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro requires every occupied home to subscribe to the city franchisee's green waste service for tree trimmings…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

Single-family households in unincorporated San Luis Obispo County must subscribe to weekly three-container collection…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael requires landscape and pruning waste to go in the green organics cart, not the garbage cart, under Municipal…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

San Ramon treats yard trimmings as part of the Organic Materials stream defined in Municipal Code Section B6-1, which…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

Commercial and multifamily properties with five or more units that hire a gardening or landscaping service must put…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara bans mixing green waste into garbage or recycling containers under City Code Section 8.25.290, lets the…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Santa Clara County collects residential yard waste through its three-container system, but yard debris…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Santa Clarita curbside green waste, leaves, grass clippings, brush, branches, and Christmas trees, can't exceed four…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Santa Cruz County requires every generator, homeowners, tenants, and businesses alike, to subscribe to…

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Santa Monica

Some Restrictions

Tree limbs, brush, and yard trimmings set out for Santa Monica collection must be cut to no more than 4 feet in length…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa automatically enrolls every residence, multifamily property and business in curbside organic waste service…

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Shasta County

Some Restrictions

Single-family households in unincorporated Shasta County must subscribe to the county's organic waste collection…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Simi Valley requires single-family households to sort yard waste into the green organics container under the City's…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

The City of Sonoma requires every household and business to keep yard trimmings and other organic waste out of the…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires weekly organic waste collection service, and yard trimmings must go in the green…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Stanislaus County's refuse code defines grass clippings, leaves, tree and shrub trimmings, weeds, and untreated wood…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton collects grass, leaves, branches and other yard trimmings through its mandatory three-container program, not…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Sunnyvale defines yard trimmings broadly, covering everything from grass clippings to whole dead trees, and requires it…

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Tehama County

Some Restrictions

In areas of unincorporated Tehama County, California where mandatory collection service applies, single-family…

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Temecula

Some Restrictions

Tree trimmings and brush set out for collection in Temecula must be cut to four-foot lengths and tied into bundles no…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy's yard waste program began in 1995 and now operates as part of the citywide organic materials collection required…

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Truckee

Some Restrictions

Truckee residents who sign up for yard-waste service must use a franchisee-provided 96-gallon cart under Truckee…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Tulare County residents put grass clippings, leaves, prunings and other yard trimmings out for Franchise…

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Turlock

Some Restrictions

Turlock residents put grass clippings, branches, and other yard waste in the green compost container, capped at 150…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City's franchised hauler holds exclusive rights to collect yard waste citywide; hiring an unauthorized hauler is…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland does not put yard waste and brush on the routine cart schedule automatically. Under Municipal Code Section…

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Vacaville

Some Restrictions

Vacaville has no separate yard-waste-only pickup. Municipal Code § 8.08.010 defines "yard waste" as identical to "green…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo defines 'green waste' as prunings, brush, leaves, grass clippings and small branches under six inches in…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista Municipal Code Section 13.16.120(A)(3) requires the city's waste contractor to supply every dwelling unit a…

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West Covina

Some Restrictions

West Covina Municipal Code Sec. 12-16 defines yard waste as leaves, grass cuttings and shrubs from routine property…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier residents get automated green-waste carts under Section 8.12.110(A), but overflow tree trimmings need a…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Yolo County's curbside loose-pile yard-trimmings collection is not countywide: it is guaranteed only for…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City bans dumping tree trimmings, shrub clippings, grass cuttings and similar yard waste into the public…

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Alameda

Light Restrictions

Alameda residents get scheduled bulky and yard-waste pickups on top of regular cart service. Municipal Code Sec. 21-2.6…

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Baldwin Park

Light Restrictions

Baldwin Park lets residents bundle loose tree limbs, palm fronds and brush for pickup only if each bundle is tied with…

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Butte County

Light Restrictions

Butte County defines yard waste as green waste discarded from a landscape, and requires that anything a customer sets…

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Camarillo

Light Restrictions

Camarillo forbids mixing green waste, defined to include grass clippings, leaves, brush and branches, into any…

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Carlsbad

Light Restrictions

Carlsbad collects grass, leaves, branches and other yard trimmings as organic materials with the weekly cart service…

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El Monte

Light Restrictions

El Monte lets residents self-compost yard trimmings generated on their own property under a city- or state-approved…

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Escondido

Light Restrictions

Escondido defines 'yard waste' at Municipal Code § 14-1.1 as landscaping and pruning debris, leaves, grass, weeds, and…

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Fremont

Light Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.360 requires any landscaping contractor who hauls away a customer's yard waste…

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Hayward

Light Restrictions

Hayward lets residents route yard trimmings outside the city's franchised hauler in specific cases: an incidental part…

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Hemet

Light Restrictions

Hemet lets licensed landscapers collect, transport, and compost or dispose of green waste without a self-haul permit…

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Irvine

Light Restrictions

Irvine folds yard waste, 'all leaves, grass cuttings and shrubs that accompany routine household or property…

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Kings County

Light Restrictions

Kings County lets residents pile leaves, wood and other green waste on their property without violating the county's…

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Los Angeles County

Light Restrictions

Yard waste too large for standard bins must be placed in securely tied bundles no longer than 4 feet and weighing no…

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Los Banos

Light Restrictions

Los Banos regulates when residents may set out garbage and green waste containers for collection. Municipal Code §…

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Pomona

Light Restrictions

Pomona's code caps what qualifies as collectible "green waste" at branches under four inches thick, four feet long and…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Light Restrictions

Rancho Cucamonga defines green waste broadly and lets residents, property owners, landscapers, weed abatement…

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San Clemente

Light Restrictions

San Clemente residents dispose of yard clippings, prunings, and brush through the City's organic waste cart under the…

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Solano County

Light Restrictions

Green waste, meaning leaves, grass clippings, brush and tree cuttings, cannot pile up on unincorporated Solano County…

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Ventura

Light Restrictions

Ventura's code defines green waste as tree trimmings, grass, leaves, and branches, and requires oversized yard debris…

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Victorville

Light Restrictions

Victorville defines yard trimmings as green waste under Municipal Code Section 6.36.010(11) and folds that material…

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Visalia

Light Restrictions

Yard waste, grass clippings, leaves, prunings, branches, and stumps, must be source-separated into a dedicated organics…

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West Sacramento

Light Restrictions

West Sacramento exempts bundled yard trimmings and cardboard from the leak-proof container rule that applies to…

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Westminster

Light Restrictions

Westminster's waste code defines yard waste and green waste as landscape material like grass clippings, prunings and…

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Yuba County

Light Restrictions

Unincorporated Yuba County lets owners bundle lawn and garden refuse for pickup instead of bagging it in a standard…

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Calaveras County

Few Restrictions

Calaveras County defines yard waste as clean vegetative matter like limbs, brush, grass clippings and leaves, and…

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Dumpster Rules

Permits and placement rules for residential or construction dumpsters, including how long they can stay and ROW obstruction limits.

Anaheim

Significant Restrictions

Anaheim treats commercial dumpsters and roll-off boxes as regulated equipment, not free-standing street furniture…

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Bellflower

Significant Restrictions

Bellflower runs an exclusive franchise system for solid-waste receptacles: only franchisee-provided bins may be placed…

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Buena Park

Significant Restrictions

Only the city's permitted solid-waste hauler may place a dumpster, bin, or roll-off container on public or private…

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Butte County

Significant Restrictions

Renting a roll-off or debris box in unincorporated Butte County means using a licensed hauler: Section 31-20 makes it…

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Corona

Significant Restrictions

Only Corona's exclusive solid waste franchisee may place a dumpster, bin, cart, or rolloff box in the city under Corona…

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Downey

Significant Restrictions

No one may drop a commercial dumpster or a construction roll-off box anywhere in Downey without a City-issued Franchise…

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El Cajon

Significant Restrictions

You cannot drop a roll-off dumpster or trash bin anywhere in El Cajon without city authorization. Section 8.22.030…

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Fresno

Significant Restrictions

You can't just call any hauler for a construction dumpster in Fresno. FMC § 6-222(a) requires roll-off collection…

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Imperial County

Significant Restrictions

Imperial County requires commercial businesses and multifamily properties in the unincorporated area to subscribe to a…

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Inglewood

Significant Restrictions

Only the City's licensed refuse franchisee may place a dumpster, bin, box or roll-off for hire in Inglewood; anyone who…

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Moorpark

Significant Restrictions

Only the city's franchised hauler may place a dumpster, bin, or roll-off box in Moorpark; any unauthorized container is…

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Oceanside

Significant Restrictions

Commercial bins in Oceanside must sit on a hard, accessible outdoor surface inside an approved enclosure, and Section…

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San Bernardino

Significant Restrictions

Only the city's franchised hauler may place containers, including roll-off and commercial dumpsters, anywhere in San…

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Simi Valley

Significant Restrictions

Businesses in Simi Valley cannot drop a bin or roll-off box on public property without an encroachment permit, and…

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Thousand Oaks

Significant Restrictions

Commercial, multi-family and mixed-use dumpsters in Thousand Oaks must be screened inside a City-approved Waste…

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West Covina

Significant Restrictions

West Covina treats any commercial bin or roll-off placed or used without the city's exclusive collection franchise as…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Alameda businesses cannot wheel a dumpster or roll-off box wherever is convenient. Municipal Code Sec. 21-2.4(b)…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

Permanent dumpsters and debris boxes on unincorporated Alameda County property must be screened from view of any public…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra requires a screened, roofed enclosure for waste and recycling containers at nearly every commercial and…

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Antioch

Some Restrictions

Antioch requires a screened trash enclosure for multi-family (five-plus units), commercial and industrial developments…

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Apple Valley

Some Restrictions

Commercial and industrial dumpsters in Apple Valley must stay out of easements, public rights-of-way and the clear…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Commercial sites in Bakersfield that generate twelve or more cubic yards of trash a day must install a compactor or…

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Baldwin Park

Some Restrictions

Commercial bins and roll-off drop-off boxes in Baldwin Park must sit on a hard surface where the franchisee's trucks…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley bars placing any waste container besides the City's own inside a street or alley right-of-way. Property owners…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Brentwood, California (Contra Costa County) puts the director of public works in charge of where commercial dumpsters…

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Calaveras County

Some Restrictions

New commercial, industrial and larger residential projects in Calaveras County must build a paved, properly sized solid…

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Camarillo

Some Restrictions

A roll-off dumpster at a Camarillo commercial site can stay only 30 consecutive days, and no more than 60 days total in…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Carlsbad requires every commercial and multifamily property to keep solid-waste, recycling and organics containers…

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Carson

Some Restrictions

Carson requires every commercial or industrial business to designate a solid waste container location on-site and keep…

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Ceres

Some Restrictions

Ceres bars open dumpster storage at businesses: the city's zoning code requires a trash and recycling area sized for…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Chico requires multifamily, commercial, and industrial properties to store waste in receptacles emptied weekly or once…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Multi-family and nonresidential properties in Chino that use shared dumpsters must enclose them in a six-foot…

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills requires an encroachment permit from the City Engineer before a temporary service bin, roll-off box, or…

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Chula Vista

Some Restrictions

Chula Vista requires large trash generators to use bin or roll-off service through the city's authorized hauler, with…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Mobile home parks, multifamily properties, and commercial or industrial users on bin or compactor service in Clovis…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Compton requires every multifamily, commercial and manufacturing property to keep its trash bins and roll-off boxes…

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Costa Mesa

Some Restrictions

Costa Mesa requires anyone who rents out dumpsters or other storage containers to hold a permit from the director of…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Commercial dumpsters, bin-type containers and roll-off boxes in Davis must be structurally compatible with the contract…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin permits roll-off boxes only for temporary use and requires Public Works Director approval for placement, while…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Commercial and industrial properties in Eastvale must screen refuse storage areas and trash enclosures from public…

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El Dorado County

Some Restrictions

Anyone running a construction or demolition site in unincorporated El Dorado County must keep adequate on-site…

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El Monte

Some Restrictions

El Monte bars dumpsters, roll-off boxes, and compactors from any public street, sidewalk, alley, or right-of-way unless…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Elk Grove requires every commercial generator to store solid waste outdoors in an enclosure meeting Chapter 30.90…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido requires trash, recycling, and organic waste dumpsters to sit inside a roofed, four-sided enclosure with no…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Fairfield requires every commercial or industrial business to use its franchised hauler's standard containers, keep…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Folsom requires business dumpster enclosures to be sited where the public works director approves, kept free of debris…

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Fontana

Some Restrictions

Fontana requires apartment buildings of five or more units and commercial accounts to use city-approved dumpster or…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont allows construction dumpsters and commercial trash bins on a residential driveway only for short periods tied…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

Fresno County requires multi-family projects with five or more units, plus commercial, industrial, and institutional…

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Fullerton

Some Restrictions

Fullerton bans setting trash, recycling or roll-off containers at the curb more than 24 hours before pickup and…

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Garden Grove

Some Restrictions

Garden Grove Municipal Code Section 9.32.190 requires every refuse and refuse storage container, including commercial…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale requires anyone with charge of a commercial or industrial waste container to use a receptacle type approved by…

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Hanford

Some Restrictions

Hanford, California requires commercial dumpsters to sit with two feet of clearance on every side, kept accessible, and…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne allows one storage container on a residential property for up to 7 calendar days, no more than twice a year…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward lets a contractor park a debris box in a legal parking space fronting a job site for up to seven days with no…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Hemet City Code § 62-11 controls what containers a property may use for solid waste, recyclables, and organic waste…

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Hesperia

Some Restrictions

Hesperia requires construction and demolition roll-off bins to go on site once work generates waste, no later than the…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Huntington Beach requires multifamily, commercial, industrial, and public/semipublic properties to provide a screened…

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Indio

Some Restrictions

Indio requires commercial refuse and recycling enclosures to sit at least 10 feet from any structure, 25 feet from a…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Commercial dumpsters, roll-off boxes and compactors in Irvine, defined broadly as 'Bins' under Sec. 6-7-101, must come…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Kern County requires every property owner to keep enough discarded-material containers on site, sized to…

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Lake County

Some Restrictions

Every dumpster serving a commercial or industrial use, or a multi-family building with three or more units, in…

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Lake Forest

Some Restrictions

Multifamily, commercial, and industrial properties in Lake Forest must keep trash bins and dumpsters inside a…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood requires every commercial, industrial and institutional property, plus apartment complexes of five or more…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Commercial and industrial properties in Lancaster must provide a refuse/recycling storage area sized at 20 square feet…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Every property in Livermore that generates bin or debris box waste must provide and maintain an enclosure for it…

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Lodi

Some Restrictions

Commercial dumpster bins and refuse collection areas in Lodi must be screened by a concrete block or masonry wall, or…

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Long Beach

Some Restrictions

Commercial and multifamily accounts in Long Beach must use bins meeting City specifications under LBMC § 8.60.025(B)…

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Los Angeles County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Los Angeles County, new commercial, industrial and 4+ unit residential projects must enclose…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Construction and demolition projects in Madera that generate eight cubic yards or more of debris must use C&D recycling…

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Manteca

Some Restrictions

Commercial customers in Manteca must place their solid waste dumpsters where the city's collection trucks can reach…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee defines a dumpster as a BIN under ten cubic yards and a larger unit as a ROLLOFF BOX under Menifee Code of…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Only the City of Merced, or its authorized contractor, may place and collect commercial dumpsters and roll-off…

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Merced County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Merced County requires solid waste and recycling storage areas at every development to sit in one…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Placing a roll-off or construction bin in a Mission Viejo street, alley, sidewalk or parking lot takes a separate…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto requires commercial premises and multi-family buildings built, enlarged, or structurally altered after January…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey requires multifamily, commercial, industrial and public buildings to screen dumpsters and other refuse…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley requires commercial bins to be screened from public view when not out for collection and never allowed to…

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Mountain View

Some Restrictions

Property owners can't keep a dumpster, box, or container sitting out for more than 72 straight hours under City Code…

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Murrieta

Some Restrictions

Section 16.18.150 of Murrieta's Development Code dictates where a business can put its trash and recycling enclosure…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

In the Santa Ana Heights Residential Equestrian (REQ) District, Newport Beach bars dumpsters from a home's front…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk requires every commercial and industrial business to designate and maintain a solid waste container location on…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Any commercial premises in Oakland must provide enough City-approved containers, bins, carts, or roll-off boxes and…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Commercial properties in Ontario must use City-approved bins, roll-offs or carts for non-organic waste, recycling…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.29.200(B) requires every commercial bin, cart or roll-off box to be stored out of…

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Orange County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Orange County requires trash bins and dumpsters to be enclosed, kept in a trash enclosure, or screened…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Oxnard requires every commercial, industrial or institutional lot, and any residential project of five units or more…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Commercial-type bins and roll-off debris boxes serving Palm Springs businesses must meet specific construction…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale requires commercial and multifamily refuse and recycling enclosures to sit inside buildings or in rear/side…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Every roll-off box, debris box or dumpster placed in Pasadena must belong to a franchised hauler and meet the city's…

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Perris

Some Restrictions

Perris requires a three-cubic-yard refuse receptacle on every construction site until work is done, anchored…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Every Petaluma home and business must keep a watertight metal garbage container of no more than thirty gallons, capped…

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Placer County

Some Restrictions

Placer County bans repeatedly overfilling a dumpster and requires it to be stored outside the county right-of-way…

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Pomona

Some Restrictions

Commercial and multifamily bins in Pomona must stay off city streets except during active dumping, and even then for no…

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Rancho Cordova

Some Restrictions

Commercial loading docks, dumpsters and refuse storage in Rancho Cordova must be screened from public streets…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Some Restrictions

Storage containers and dumpsters not tied to a construction project can sit on residential property for only 5 days…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Redlands requires commercial bins and roll-off or compactor boxes to sit in a location the solid waste director…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Every dumpster used for commercial waste collection in Redondo Beach must carry the owner's name and phone number, and…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

A roll-off debris box at a Rialto single-family home may stay visible from the street for up to thirty consecutive…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Riverside requires centralized, enclosed trash and recycling collection areas for nearly every development project…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park requires multi-family, commercial and industrial developments to enclose dumpsters in a solid masonry…

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Roseville

Some Restrictions

Commercial dumpsters in Roseville must sit in city-approved trash enclosures used only for refuse equipment. Municipal…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires a screened trash and recycling enclosure for any multi-unit building with five or more units, and…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Every new multifamily project in unincorporated Sacramento County must build its trash, recycling and organics…

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San Benito County

Some Restrictions

Multi-family developments of five or more units in unincorporated San Benito County must enclose shared dumpsters in a…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Commercial roll-off dumpsters must carry the hauler's name and a box number and stay covered or bagged to stop…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente requires every dumpster serving a commercial or multi-parcel use to sit inside a solid enclosure at least…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

New development in San Diego must locate exterior trash and recycling storage areas away from the street and behind a…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

Businesses and industrial sites in unincorporated San Diego County must keep dumpsters, grease bins, and similar…

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San Francisco

Some Restrictions

San Francisco debris boxes in the public right-of-way must sit parallel to the curb, no more than 8 feet out, and off…

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San Jose

Some Restrictions

San Jose bans keeping a commercial dumpster or rolloff box in the public furnishing zone except from 12 hours before…

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San Leandro

Some Restrictions

San Leandro's zoning code requires refuse storage areas for multi-family, commercial, industrial, and public/semipublic…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

San Luis Obispo County caps solid waste storage areas at 100 feet from the building served and bars bins over 100…

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

Every commercial, industrial and multifamily project in San Marcos must build a dedicated trash and recycling enclosure…

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San Mateo County

Some Restrictions

New commercial and mixed-use development in San Mateo County's CMU-1 (Commercial Mixed Use-1) zoning district, the…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael limits outdoor storage containers and debris boxes: they're barred from residential zoning districts except…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

Commercial and multi-family properties in San Ramon must keep their solid waste, recycling and organics dumpsters…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

Every commercial and industrial property in Santa Ana, along with residential developments of three or more units, must…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

Placing a roll-off dumpster or providing unscheduled hauling service in unincorporated Santa Barbara County requires a…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

New solid waste enclosures built in Santa Clara must meet exact design specs under City Code Section 8.25.100(c)…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Santa Clara County, dumpsters and roll-off bins serving nonresidential or multi-unit properties need…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Santa Clarita Municipal Code Section 15.44.220(A)(12) bars placing any commercial bin, temporary bin or roll-off box in…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

Every commercial, industrial, and multi-family property in unincorporated Santa Cruz County must keep its own…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.16 governs bin-type dumpster service for businesses and multifamily properties…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa requires recycling and waste collection areas for nearly every development citywide, except single-family…

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Solano County

Some Restrictions

Every commercial and industrial property in unincorporated Solano County must keep its solid waste, recyclables and…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

In the City of Sonoma, multifamily residential projects must keep trash, yard-waste, compost and recycling bins, carts…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires commercial buildings, larger multi-family projects, and high-volume waste…

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South Gate

Some Restrictions

South Gate requires trash and recycling enclosures serving new development to give collection trucks a clear driveway…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Multifamily and commercial properties in unincorporated Stanislaus County place their carts, drop boxes, and bins under…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Stockton requires refuse and recycling storage areas sized by unit count or building square footage, screened on at…

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Sunnyvale

Some Restrictions

Sunnyvale allows a debris box or dumpster on private property during building construction or remodeling only in…

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Temecula

Some Restrictions

Every Temecula property owner or operator must keep a container large enough to hold everything produced between…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy's exclusive collection franchise controls commercial dumpsters and roll-off boxes. Under Tracy Municipal Code…

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Turlock

Some Restrictions

New multifamily, commercial, and industrial trash and recycling enclosures in Turlock can't sit in a front or corner…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City requires commercial, industrial and multifamily dumpster enclosures to sit outside required setbacks and…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland requires every commercial and industrial business to use the standard containers supplied by its authorized…

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Vacaville

Some Restrictions

Multifamily and commercial properties in Vacaville must subscribe to at least weekly three-stream collection and supply…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo requires every commercial dumpster, roll-off box, and recycling enclosure to sit at least five feet from…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

Commercial dumpsters supplied by Ventura's waste franchisee must be leak-proof, lidded where applicable, built entirely…

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Ventura County

Some Restrictions

Trash and recycling enclosures on discretionary coastal-zone development must be built of masonry or wood, screened…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Victorville treats roll-off boxes as a temporary use only: they're allowed on a job site tied to an active building…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento requires commercial bins, drop boxes and debris boxes to stay leakproof, bagged and covered at all…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Commercial refuse and recycling storage areas in Westminster cannot sit in a required front or street side yard, and…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Whittier businesses cannot buy their own trash bin: commercial and industrial containers must come from the city or its…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Commercial properties in unincorporated Yolo County must arrange their own containers, bins, drop boxes, or compactors…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Every multi-family, commercial, and industrial property in Yuba City must keep an on-site trash receptacle sized for…

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Collection Schedule

Day-of-week pickup schedules by neighborhood, set-out and take-back time windows, and where to find your specific block's schedule.

Carson

Heavy Restrictions

Every Carson residential household must use the City's exclusive-franchise trash and recycling collector: hiring any…

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Bellflower

Significant Restrictions

Every lot in Bellflower owes solid waste and recycling service charges to the franchised hauler whether or not the…

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Berkeley

Significant Restrictions

Berkeley declares garbage collection an essential service performed exclusively by the City. Every owner whose property…

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Camarillo

Significant Restrictions

Every residence and business in Camarillo must sign up with a solid waste collector or get a city self-haul permit; the…

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Davis

Significant Restrictions

Every waste generator in Davis must subscribe to the city's gray, green, dark blue, and recycling container collection…

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Fresno County

Significant Restrictions

In Fresno County's fourteen exclusive solid waste service areas, only the county's designated contractor may collect…

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Fullerton

Significant Restrictions

Fullerton Municipal Code § 5.14.030 requires every residential and commercial property owner, manager or tenant to…

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Hanford

Significant Restrictions

Every property inside Hanford city limits must subscribe to and pay for city solid waste collection: self-hauling your…

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Lodi

Significant Restrictions

Every residence and business within Lodi city limits must subscribe to the city's exclusive refuse contractor and pay…

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Manteca

Significant Restrictions

Manteca requires every residence and business to subscribe to the city's exclusive solid waste service, with pickup…

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Marin County

Significant Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.110 bars anyone from collecting, hauling or handling garbage, recyclables or organic waste in…

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Newport Beach

Significant Restrictions

Newport Beach makes trash and recycling collection an exclusive City-authorized service under Municipal Code Section…

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Palmdale

Significant Restrictions

Every residential household in Palmdale must subscribe to the city's exclusive franchised trash and recycling collector…

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Placer County

Significant Restrictions

Section 8.16.220 makes franchise refuse collection mandatory for occupied homes and businesses in Placer County's…

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Roseville

Significant Restrictions

Roseville reserves the exclusive right to collect garbage citywide, and it's unlawful for anyone but the city or its…

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San Benito County

Significant Restrictions

In designated mandatory areas of unincorporated San Benito County, the exclusive franchise collector must pick up trash…

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San Leandro

Significant Restrictions

San Leandro requires every property that generates solid waste to subscribe to the city's exclusive franchisee within…

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San Ramon

Significant Restrictions

San Ramon requires the owner of every occupied property to subscribe to trash, recycling and organics pickup from the…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Alameda requires every occupied property to sign up for weekly solid waste pickup through the city's exclusive…

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Alameda County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Alameda County property owners must use curbside collection service from an authorized hauler…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.170 sets a once-a-week minimum for solid waste collection and bars residential and…

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Anaheim

Some Restrictions

Single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes and small apartment buildings of four units or fewer in Anaheim get one…

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Apple Valley

Some Restrictions

Apple Valley's contracted hauler must pick up solid waste, recyclables and organic materials at least once a week from…

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Bakersfield

Some Restrictions

Every single-family, multifamily and commercial property owner in Bakersfield must arrange collection through the…

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Baldwin Park

Some Restrictions

Baldwin Park collects trash through one exclusive city-awarded franchise, and every owner or occupant in the served…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Brentwood must subscribe to city solid waste collection under Section 8.16.170: residents…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Buena Park, California requires every residential unit and commercial premises to have its solid waste removed at least…

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Butte County

Some Restrictions

Every licensed hauler in unincorporated Butte County must run weekly solid waste and organic waste pickup, plus…

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Calaveras County

Some Restrictions

Calaveras County bars solid waste collection before 6 a.m. or after 8 p.m. unless the board authorizes otherwise, and…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Every property in Carlsbad that generates waste must subscribe to the city's franchised hauler rather than self-haul or…

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Ceres

Some Restrictions

Ceres requires weekly curbside collection of garbage, recyclables, and organics through the City's contracted hauler…

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Chico

Some Restrictions

Every property in Chico with solid waste must keep receptacles on site under Municipal Code § 8.12.010, and residential…

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Chino

Some Restrictions

Every single-family household in Chino must subscribe to the city's three-container collection service: a gray…

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Chino Hills

Some Restrictions

Chino Hills requires refuse to be removed from every property at least once a week, and Municipal Code § 13.20.130 bars…

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Chula Vista

Some Restrictions

Chula Vista requires weekly garbage collection for every residence and business in the city and treats it as a…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Clovis must subscribe to and pay for the City's basic refuse service; opting out isn't…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Compton requires every property to arrange for weekly solid waste pickup through the city's authorized collector under…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

Every home and business in unincorporated Contra Costa County must subscribe to weekly trash pickup, not just own a…

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Costa Mesa

Some Restrictions

Costa Mesa Municipal Code § 8-81(a) requires curbside and commercial recurring collection at least once a week…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino caps how long garbage can sit on a property at one week and requires it be put out for collection at least…

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Downey

Some Restrictions

Downey lets its franchised Solid Waste Collectors set the manner, time and frequency of pickup with each customer, but…

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Dublin

Some Restrictions

Dublin, California requires its franchised hauler to pick up discarded materials from every residence and business at…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Every Eastvale property owner or occupant must either subscribe to the city's franchised solid waste hauler or hold a…

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El Dorado County

Some Restrictions

Property owners in El Dorado County's mandatory collection area, covering the South Lake Tahoe Basin and the Cameron…

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El Monte

Some Restrictions

Every nonvacant residential property in El Monte must retain the city's franchised hauler, and solid waste must be…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Every residential property in Elk Grove must subscribe to the city's franchised hauler for garbage, recycling, and…

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Escondido

Some Restrictions

Escondido requires weekly trash, recycling, and organics pickup for every home under Municipal Code § 14-4.10(a), with…

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Fairfield

Some Restrictions

Every household and business in Fairfield must subscribe to weekly garbage pickup through the city's Authorized…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Folsom Municipal Code 8.32.020(B) requires every residential dwelling and commercial business to subscribe to the…

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Fontana

Some Restrictions

Fontana picks up solid waste on every scheduled day except Sundays and six named holidays, under Sec. 24-37. Collection…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.150 sets weekly curbside collection for single-family trash, recycling, and…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno requires every residence and business to put waste out at least once a week, and it sets a strict clock for the…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale bars refuse from sitting out more than one calendar week and organics more than 15 days under Municipal Code…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

Every dwelling and business in unincorporated Glenn County, California, must have its garbage, rubbish, and refuse…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Every occupied home and business in Hayward must subscribe to weekly garbage collection from the city's franchised…

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Hemet

Some Restrictions

Hemet City Code § 62-13 sets the baseline for how often waste has to leave a property: at least once a week, with…

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Hercules

Some Restrictions

Hercules Municipal Code Sec. 5-2.07 requires every occupied property owner to subscribe to and pay for the city's solid…

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Hesperia

Some Restrictions

Every Hesperia property owner must subscribe to the city's franchised trash hauler for residential collection, whether…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Huntington Beach's contracted refuse collector must pick up residential refuse, recycling, and yard waste at least once…

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Indio

Some Restrictions

Indio requires single-family and multi-family generators to subscribe to the city's three-container organic waste…

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Inglewood

Some Restrictions

Inglewood requires refuse to be collected from every place or premises at least once each calendar week under Municipal…

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Irvine

Some Restrictions

Irvine requires weekly solid waste collection at every occupied premises through the city's exclusive franchised…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Inside a Kern County universal collection area, the property owner must subscribe to, pay for and use the franchise…

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Kings County

Some Restrictions

Licensed haulers must give unincorporated Kings County customers a regular collection schedule and at least 30 days'…

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Lake County

Some Restrictions

Only a hauler under contract with the County of Lake may collect or dispose of another person's garbage in the…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood runs an exclusive, mandatory municipal refuse system: the City and its contractor are the only ones allowed to…

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Lancaster

Some Restrictions

Lancaster's Municipal Code requires refuse collection from every premises at least once per calendar week under Section…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Every Livermore property owner or occupant must subscribe with the city's franchised hauler for solid waste, recycling…

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Los Angeles

Some Restrictions

Los Angeles requires every commercial establishment and multi-family dwelling not already serviced by the City to…

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Los Angeles County

Some Restrictions

In the unincorporated High Desert Area, county code requires occupied properties without county-provided trash pickup…

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Los Banos

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Los Banos must receive City trash collection and be billed for it under Los Banos Municipal…

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Madera

Some Restrictions

Madera Municipal Code Section 5-3.08 puts the City Administrator in charge of setting collection days and container…

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Madera County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Madera County residents get solid waste pickup Monday through Friday under an exclusive county franchise…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Menifee Code of Ordinances § 6.30.050(A) sets a floor of at least once-a-week trash removal for every single-family and…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Merced's Municipal Code entitles every dwelling unit to weekly removal of two 30-gallon containers of solid waste under…

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Merced County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Merced County, every occupied home and business must have refuse hauled away at least once a week to…

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Mission Viejo

Some Restrictions

Mission Viejo requires solid waste to be collected at least once a week and bans truck collection between 6:00 p.m. and…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey requires every single-family and multifamily property to subscribe to the City's three-container collection…

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Monterey County

Some Restrictions

Monterey County Code § 10.41.030 requires permittees and franchisees to collect solid waste from every occupied…

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Moorpark

Some Restrictions

Every Moorpark home and business must subscribe to licensed solid waste collection or obtain a self-haul exemption, or…

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Moreno Valley

Some Restrictions

Moreno Valley requires every occupied property to carry solid waste collection service through the city's contracted…

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Mountain View

Some Restrictions

Every property in Mountain View must have garbage and waste removed at least once a week, per City Code Sec. 16.4, with…

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Murrieta

Some Restrictions

Murrieta requires every single-family household to subscribe to and pay for the city's three-container organic waste…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk requires every residential and commercial property to use the City's authorized solid waste collector rather…

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Oakland

Some Restrictions

Oakland requires solid waste, recyclables and organics to be collected, or self-hauled under a permit, at least once a…

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Oceanside

Some Restrictions

Every occupied property in Oceanside must subscribe to discarded materials service through the city's authorized…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario requires every residential property owner or occupant to subscribe to the city's integrated waste collection…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.29.030 requires every residential and commercial property owner, manager or tenant to…

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Orange County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Orange County, franchised haulers may collect residential solid waste only between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Oxnard requires every single-family home and mobile home to subscribe to weekly refuse, recycling, and organics pickup…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

In the City of Pacifica, every residential unit and every occupied hotel, motel, apartment house, rooming house, or…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Every owner or occupant of real property in Palm Springs must subscribe to Solid Waste, Recyclable Materials, and…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

The City of Pasadena is the exclusive trash hauler for single-family homes and buildings with four or fewer units under…

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Perris

Some Restrictions

Every property owner or occupant in Perris must arrange for regular refuse collection service; occupying a property…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Petaluma requires every property owner and occupant in the city to receive garbage collection service, whether the…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Every residential, commercial and industrial unit in Pleasanton must carry solid waste, recyclables and organic waste…

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Rancho Cordova

Some Restrictions

Every improved parcel in Rancho Cordova, residential or commercial, must subscribe to three-container garbage…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Some Restrictions

Rancho Cucamonga requires every occupied residential and commercial property to subscribe to the city's franchised…

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Redding

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home, multifamily building, and commercial property in Redding must maintain a subscription for…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Redlands guarantees at least weekly trash, recycling and green waste pickup for every property under City Code section…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Redondo Beach requires every residence and commercial account to have solid waste collected by the City's designated…

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Redwood City

Some Restrictions

Redwood City requires refuse service at every occupied property under Sec. 14.2, with pickup no less than once a week…

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Rialto

Some Restrictions

Every premises in Rialto must contract with the city's franchised hauler for solid waste service and keep the account…

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Ridgecrest

Some Restrictions

Every home, church, and business in Ridgecrest must subscribe to the city's franchise hauler for trash, recycling, and…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Every Riverside home must subscribe to city or contractor trash collection, or hold a self-hauler permit, and only…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Riverside County requires weekly solid waste collection in unincorporated areas, curbside containers out by 6 a.m. on…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park requires every premises to subscribe to solid waste collection through the city's authorized collector…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires every residential property owner to subscribe to city garbage collection at least once a week, sets…

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Sacramento County

Some Restrictions

Every improved parcel in unincorporated Sacramento County must subscribe to solid waste, recycling, and organic…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas Municipal Code Section 14-01.11 makes garbage collection mandatory: every occupied residential, commercial…

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San Bernardino

Some Restrictions

San Bernardino requires every occupied property to subscribe to at least the minimum level of solid waste service from…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Bernardino County requires household garbage picked up at least once every seven days, twice weekly…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente requires every property owner to have solid waste collected through the City or its exclusive Franchise…

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San Diego

Some Restrictions

City forces must collect residential solid waste from single-family and small multi-family homes at least once a week…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated San Diego County, franchised haulers operating under a Non-Exclusive Franchise Agreement must pick up…

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San Francisco

Some Restrictions

San Francisco property owners must subscribe to and pay for adequate refuse collection service; failure to do so is…

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San Joaquin County

Some Restrictions

San Joaquin County automatically enrolls unincorporated homes zoned R-R through R-H in mandatory residential solid…

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San Jose

Some Restrictions

Every residential property in San Jose must have weekly solid waste, recycling, and organic materials collection…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

County code requires weekly garbage removal for homes and twice-weekly pickup for restaurants and food businesses.

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.070 requires the franchised contractor to collect refuse from every residence…

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San Mateo County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Mateo County properties must dispose of solid waste at least once a week and, where a hauler serves…

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San Rafael

Some Restrictions

San Rafael requires solid waste pickup at least once a week for every home and business, with the day set by the city's…

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Santa Ana

Some Restrictions

The executive director of public works sets each address's curbside collection day in Santa Ana, and single-family and…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

In the unincorporated county, the Board of Supervisors sets collection hours, days and frequency, and can order any…

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Santa Clara

Some Restrictions

Santa Clara requires weekly refuse pickup for every residential, commercial, industrial and institutional property…

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Santa Clara County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Santa Clara County requires garbage and organic waste to be removed from homes and apartment complexes…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home and commercial property in Santa Clarita that generates garbage, organics, or recyclables must…

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Santa Maria

Some Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.10 sets the pickup calendar: residential trash goes out at least once every…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa City Code § 9-12.070(A) automatically enrolls every service recipient in garbage, recycling, and organic…

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Shasta County

Some Restrictions

Shasta County does not print a fixed pickup day in its code; instead the board of supervisors decides collection…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Every Simi Valley property owner must arrange discards collection through a city-franchised hauler, not an outside…

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Solano County

Some Restrictions

Every congested-area resident and all commercial or industrial establishments in unincorporated Solano County must sign…

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Sonoma

Some Restrictions

The City of Sonoma does not fix pickup days in the municipal code itself. Sonoma Municipal Code § 7.08.070 instead has…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires every single-family, multi-family, and commercial property to subscribe to weekly…

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Stanislaus County

Some Restrictions

Stanislaus County bars residential trash and recycling pickup before 5 a.m. or after 6 p.m. in unincorporated…

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Stockton

Some Restrictions

Every Stockton property owner must sign up for the City's three-cart collection program, which guarantees at least…

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Temecula

Some Restrictions

Every property owner or occupant in Temecula must arrange refuse, recyclables, and compostables collection through the…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

The City's Exclusive Franchise Contractor must collect residential trash, recycling and organics at least once a week…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Every occupied home in Tracy must subscribe to the city's franchised refuse, recycling, and organics collection…

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Truckee

Some Restrictions

Every Truckee resident and business must subscribe to solid waste collection at least once a week from the Town's…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Every occupied home or business in a designated unincorporated Tulare County service area must subscribe to regularly…

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Turlock

Some Restrictions

Every Turlock home and business must subscribe to city trash, recycling, and compost collection and pay for it even if…

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Union City

Some Restrictions

Union City requires every residential property to subscribe to weekly solid waste collection through the City's…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland's authorized hauler must collect solid waste, recyclables, and organic waste from each home at least once a week…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.48.010 requires the city's franchised hauler to collect solid waste, recyclables, and…

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Ventura

Some Restrictions

Residential and commercial waste in the City of Ventura must be removed from a property at least once a week under…

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Ventura County

Some Restrictions

Every single-family dwelling organic waste generator in unincorporated Ventura County must subscribe to solid waste…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Victorville requires weekly trash pickup for every residence and business under Municipal Code Section 6.36.060, and…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Every property owner in Vista must provide solid waste collection service through the city's exclusive contractor, with…

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West Covina

Some Restrictions

West Covina Municipal Code Sec. 12-18 requires weekly collection of residential, commercial and industrial solid waste…

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West Sacramento

Some Restrictions

West Sacramento requires every property owner to sign up for the city's exclusive solid waste collection service, with…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Every property in Westminster must subscribe to refuse collection through the Midway City Sanitary District franchisee…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Every occupied Whittier property must be signed up for trash pickup at least once a week: Municipal Code Section…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Every single-family, multi-family, and commercial property in unincorporated Yolo County must subscribe to weekly trash…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City requires every property owner to subscribe to the city's contracted refuse collection service under Municipal…

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Yuba County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Yuba County requires all refuse from dwellings and other premises to be removed at least once a week…

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Corona

Light Restrictions

Corona limits solid waste pickup to the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. citywide under Corona Code of Ordinances…

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Recycling Rules

Which items can and cannot go in residential single-stream recycling bins, contamination penalties, and rules for hazardous-waste drop-off.

Sonoma

Heavy Restrictions

Once a City of Sonoma resident sets recyclables at the curb, they legally belong to the city's authorized recycling…

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Anaheim

Significant Restrictions

Anaheim requires every single-family and multi-family generator to subscribe to the Franchisee's Three-Container…

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Inglewood

Significant Restrictions

Inglewood runs recycling through one City-franchised hauler that must route source-separated recyclables to a facility…

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Lancaster

Significant Restrictions

Lancaster requires commercial businesses and multi-family properties of five or more units to source separate…

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Madera

Significant Restrictions

Madera lets residents segregate recyclables from garbage and sell or give them to a private collector under Municipal…

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Moreno Valley

Significant Restrictions

Moreno Valley requires builders on covered construction and demolition projects to divert at least 50% of debris…

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Oakland

Significant Restrictions

Oakland reserves curbside recyclable-materials collection to its franchised Residential Recyclables (RR) collector, and…

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Orange County

Significant Restrictions

In unincorporated Orange County, it's illegal for anyone but the county's authorized recycling agent to take paper…

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Rancho Cucamonga

Significant Restrictions

Rancho Cucamonga requires certain businesses to recycle. Municipal Code Section 8.17.190 forces any commercial business…

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San Leandro

Significant Restrictions

Once recyclables are set out for pickup, San Leandro makes them the property of the City's franchisee and bars anyone…

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Santa Clara

Significant Restrictions

Every household in Santa Clara must subscribe to residential recycling service, and commercial properties generating 4…

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Santa Maria

Significant Restrictions

Santa Maria Municipal Code Section 8-11.05 gives the City the exclusive right to collect, transport and dispose of…

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Temecula

Significant Restrictions

Once you set recyclables at the curb for collection, they belong to the city's authorized recycling contractor…

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Ventura

Significant Restrictions

In the City of Ventura, no one may collect or process recyclable materials commercially unless they hold a city…

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Alameda

Some Restrictions

Every owner or occupant of property in Alameda must subscribe to the franchised hauler's recycling and organic-waste…

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Alhambra

Some Restrictions

Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.230 protects the right to sell or donate recyclable material outside the city's…

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Berkeley

Some Restrictions

Berkeley runs a municipal curbside recycling program under Chapter 12.36 and makes it unlawful for anyone but the City…

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Brentwood

Some Restrictions

Once you set recyclables out for pickup in Brentwood, they legally belong to the city or its authorized hauler, not to…

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Buena Park

Some Restrictions

Buena Park, California requires every residential unit to sort recyclable materials into a dedicated blue container and…

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Butte County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Butte County, licensed haulers must provide weekly trash and organics pickup and recycling collection…

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Camarillo

Some Restrictions

Any Camarillo property with five or more residential units, condominiums, or a mobilehome park must run a recycling…

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Carlsbad

Some Restrictions

Everyone in control of a Carlsbad property that generates discarded materials must separate recyclable materials from…

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Clovis

Some Restrictions

Once recyclables are set out at a Clovis collection point, whether curbside, a multifamily centralized bin, a…

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Compton

Some Restrictions

Compton lets residents and businesses sell or donate their own source-separated recyclables or organic waste to buyers…

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Contra Costa County

Some Restrictions

Contra Costa County won't let a landfill operator accept solid waste from a hauler whose local agency isn't running a…

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Corona

Some Restrictions

Every single-family home in Corona must sort source separated recyclable materials into the blue container under Corona…

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Costa Mesa

Some Restrictions

Costa Mesa Municipal Code § 8-84 requires every solid waste permittee and franchisee to divert collected waste from…

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Cupertino

Some Restrictions

Cupertino bans putting garbage into a bin marked for organic or non-organic recycling, and Section 6.24.035 guarantees…

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Davis

Some Restrictions

Once recyclables and organics hit the curb or a commercial container in Davis, Municipal Code Section 32.01.060 makes…

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Eastvale

Some Restrictions

Eastvale Municipal Code Sec. 16.05.400 makes clear that recyclables set out for pickup, or dropped at a recycling…

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El Dorado County

Some Restrictions

It's illegal in unincorporated El Dorado County for anyone other than the property's franchised hauler or the owner to…

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El Monte

Some Restrictions

El Monte makes it unlawful for anyone but the container's owner, the property owner, or the franchised hauler to…

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Elk Grove

Some Restrictions

Once you set recyclables out in Elk Grove, they legally belong to the franchised hauler, the City, or another party…

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Folsom

Some Restrictions

Folsom Municipal Code 8.32.080(C) requires recyclables to go loose, never bagged, into the city-issued blue container…

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Fremont

Some Restrictions

Fremont Municipal Code Section 8.40.250 makes every recyclable set out at the curb the property of the franchise…

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Fresno

Some Restrictions

Fresno's blue-cart recycling program isn't a suggestion: it's written into the Municipal Code as a sorting mandate. FMC…

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Fresno County

Some Restrictions

Fresno County requires unincorporated-area households to keep single-stream recyclables such as cardboard, glass…

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Fullerton

Some Restrictions

Fullerton Municipal Code § 5.14.060 makes it a public nuisance for anyone with franchised solid waste service to skip…

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Glendale

Some Restrictions

Glendale requires every waste generator, residential or commercial, to sort trash into three curbside containers…

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Glenn County

Some Restrictions

New construction, additions, and alterations that need a Glenn County building permit must meet the CALGreen…

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Hawthorne

Some Restrictions

Hawthorne requires recyclables to be kept separate from trash and organics and placed only in a labeled recyclable…

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Hayward

Some Restrictions

Hayward routes recyclable materials through one authorized franchisee, not an open market of haulers. Municipal Code…

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Huntington Beach

Some Restrictions

Every business in Huntington Beach, including multifamily buildings with five or more units, must reuse, recycle…

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Kern County

Some Restrictions

Every property owner in unincorporated Kern County, residential or commercial, must keep discarded-materials containers…

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Lake County

Some Restrictions

Commercial and multi-family properties in unincorporated Lake County that use a Refuse/Litter Control plan in place of…

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Lakewood

Some Restrictions

Lakewood commercial businesses and multi-family properties must subscribe to the City's three-container collection…

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Livermore

Some Restrictions

Livermore requires every resident and business to separate recyclables from trash and put them in the franchisee's own…

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Los Angeles County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated LA County, only the county's authorized recycling agent may take recyclables you've set out for…

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Los Banos

Some Restrictions

Los Banos Municipal Code Chapter 3.1 spells out how residents must handle their recycling containers: keep material…

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Marin County

Some Restrictions

Marin County Code § 7.00.060(C) requires every residential generator to sort food waste and other organics into the…

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Menifee

Some Restrictions

Commercial businesses and multi-family buildings in Menifee must run a recycling program capturing at least glass…

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Merced

Some Restrictions

Any Merced building project needing a permit for commercial, industrial, institutional, or five-or-more-unit…

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Modesto

Some Restrictions

Modesto requires every premises to keep enough approved garbage, recycling, and organics containers on hand, and it is…

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Monterey

Some Restrictions

Monterey requires every single-family home, apartment building and commercial business to subscribe to the City's…

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Mountain View

Some Restrictions

Mountain View's City Code makes curbside recyclables the property of the city or its licensed hauler the moment they're…

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Newport Beach

Some Restrictions

Newport Beach requires AB 341 generators, businesses and multifamily properties producing enough waste, to divert all…

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Norwalk

Some Restrictions

Norwalk's solid waste ordinance spells out exactly which materials qualify as recyclables for curbside pickup…

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Ontario

Some Restrictions

Ontario businesses generating four or more cubic yards of solid waste a week, and multifamily buildings of five units…

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Orange

Some Restrictions

Orange Municipal Code Section 8.29.220 makes recycling mandatory for multi-family, commercial and industrial generators…

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Oxnard

Some Restrictions

Only the city, its licensed haulers, certified recyclers, or the property owner hauling their own material may collect…

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Pacifica

Some Restrictions

Pacifica Municipal Code Section 6-5.207 requires residents in the Pacifica Recycling Program to separate recyclables…

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Palm Springs

Some Restrictions

Palm Springs Commercial Businesses and multi-family dwellings must subscribe to the City's three-container Solid Waste…

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Palmdale

Some Restrictions

Palmdale bars putting the wrong material in the wrong cart, defined as a "prohibited container contaminant" under…

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Pasadena

Some Restrictions

Every solid waste franchise operating in Pasadena must offer recycling to all its customers and collect recyclables at…

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Petaluma

Some Restrictions

Once you set garbage, rubbish or recyclable material out in a container designated for pickup, Petaluma Municipal Code…

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Placer County

Some Restrictions

New commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings in unincorporated Placer County, along with new marinas and…

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Pleasanton

Some Restrictions

Once Pleasanton residents set recyclables out in a designated bin or trash can, ownership passes to the city's…

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Pomona

Some Restrictions

Pomona requires every business to source-separate or otherwise divert its commercial solid waste under City Code…

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Rancho Cordova

Some Restrictions

Rancho Cordova requires every home and business to keep watertight, covered containers for garbage separate from…

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Redlands

Some Restrictions

Redlands requires every property to subscribe to solid waste, organic waste, and recycling collection services, and…

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Redondo Beach

Some Restrictions

Once you set your recyclables at the curb in Redondo Beach, they belong to the City, and only its authorized contractor…

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Riverside

Some Restrictions

Every property in Riverside must keep separate containers for solid waste, recyclable materials, and organic recyclable…

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Riverside County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Riverside County requires every residence and business to use three separate carts, green for organics…

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Rohnert Park

Some Restrictions

Rohnert Park requires every generator, household or business, to source separate recyclable materials from garbage and…

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Roseville

Some Restrictions

Roseville requires every refuse hauler and recycler working in the city to deliver collected material to the Western…

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Sacramento

Some Restrictions

Sacramento requires every business, non-residential property, and multi-family residential property to source separate…

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Salinas

Some Restrictions

Salinas requires every residential, multifamily and commercial generator to source-separate recyclables and contract…

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San Bernardino

Some Restrictions

San Bernardino Municipal Code § 8.24.090 requires every household, business and multi-family generator to subscribe to…

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San Bernardino County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Bernardino County requires any business generating four or more cubic yards of solid waste per week…

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San Clemente

Some Restrictions

San Clemente requires every customer to place trash, recyclables, and organic waste only in City- or Franchise…

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San Diego County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated San Diego County requires households and businesses to source-separate recyclables and organic waste…

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San Jose

Some Restrictions

Recyclables set out for pickup become the authorized collector's property under city code, and only that collector may…

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San Luis Obispo County

Some Restrictions

Section 8.98.020 of the County Code requires every household and multi-family building served by a franchised hauler in…

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San Marcos

Some Restrictions

San Marcos Municipal Code Section 8.68.211 makes it unlawful for anyone other than the owner, the owner's agent, the…

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San Ramon

Some Restrictions

San Ramon Municipal Code Section B6-7 bars anyone from collecting, transporting, or conveying Recyclable Materials…

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Santa Barbara County

Some Restrictions

County Code Sec. 17-18 lets residents donate or sell their own source-separated recyclables before setting them out…

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Santa Clarita

Some Restrictions

Once recyclables go into a container supplied by Santa Clarita's franchised hauler, they legally belong to that hauler…

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Santa Cruz County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Santa Cruz County it's an infraction to pull recyclables out of a neighbor's cart or a curbside…

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Santa Rosa

Some Restrictions

Santa Rosa automatically enrolls every household in garbage, recycling, and organic waste service under City Code…

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Simi Valley

Some Restrictions

Simi Valley bars recyclables collectors from charging owners for picking up recyclable materials and makes it a crime…

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Solano County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Solano County requires recyclable material to be kept in approved containers that are leakproof…

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Sonoma County

Some Restrictions

Unincorporated Sonoma County requires every household and business to source-separate waste into blue (recyclables)…

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Thousand Oaks

Some Restrictions

Once a Thousand Oaks resident sets recyclables at the curb, they belong to the city's franchise hauler: TOMC § 6-2.103…

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Tracy

Some Restrictions

Tracy Municipal Code Section 5.20.130 sets the actual mechanics of curbside recycling: generators on the…

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Tulare County

Some Restrictions

Commercial businesses and multifamily properties of five or more units in unincorporated Tulare County must enroll in…

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Upland

Some Restrictions

Upland runs a mandatory three-container system: source-separated recyclables go in the blue container, organic waste in…

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Vallejo

Some Restrictions

Vallejo Municipal Code Section 7.44.020 requires every non-self-hauling property to maintain three separate containers…

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Victorville

Some Restrictions

Victorville requires separate blue recycling containers for designated recyclables and bars mixing solid waste into…

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Vista

Some Restrictions

Vista Municipal Code Chapter 11.12 requires every customer to separate designated recyclable materials from the regular…

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Westminster

Some Restrictions

Westminster bans anyone but the Midway City Sanitary District franchisee from scavenging recyclables left out for…

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Whittier

Some Restrictions

Residents or businesses who self-haul their own trash instead of subscribing to city collection must first get a…

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Yolo County

Some Restrictions

Yolo County Code Section 6-17.201(hh) defines Recyclable Materials that must go in the recycling cart, listing paper…

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Yuba City

Some Restrictions

Yuba City requires SB 1383-compliant recycling and organic-waste containers for every refuse account and lets City…

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Chino Hills

Light Restrictions

Once you set recyclables out in a designated container for the city's authorized hauler, Municipal Code § 13.20.190…

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Downey

Light Restrictions

Once you set recyclables out for collection in Downey, ownership passes directly to the licensed Solid Waste Collector…

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Hercules

Light Restrictions

Hercules Municipal Code carves recyclables out of its general solid-waste rules: Sec. 5-2.02 lets residents hold…

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Rialto

Light Restrictions

Once you set non-organic recyclables out at a designated collection point or in the franchisee's container, RMC §…

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