Alhambra, CA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Container weight cap
- 65 pounds with contents
- Earliest curbside set-out
- noon, day before pickup
- Latest removal
- 6:00 a.m., day after pickup
- Storage rule
- hidden from ROW except on pickup day
- Commercial bin pull
- within 1 week of service end
Summary
Alhambra Municipal Code § 6.16.160 caps curbside containers at 65 pounds, bars setting them out before noon the day before collection, requires them hidden from the right-of-way otherwise, and requires removal by 6:00 a.m. the day after pickup.
(B) No person shall place a container adjacent to a street or public right-of-way for collection if the container and its contents weigh more than 65 pounds. (C) To minimize interference with public rights-of-way, no person shall place a container or any bulky goods adjacent to a street or public right-of-way for collection service before noon on the day preceding the regularly scheduled collection day. ... Except during the time a container is placed for curbside collection, residential solid waste containers shall not be visible from the public right of way. (E) Solid waste containers shall be removed from any location adjacent to a street or right-of-way not later than six a.m. on the day following the regularly-scheduled collection day.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-25: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ord. 4851, passed 10-27-25).
Full Breakdown
160(A) requires residential and commercial containers to match the type the city's collector designates. Subsection (B) bars placing any container weighing more than 65 pounds with its contents adjacent to a street or right-of-way. Subsection (C) prohibits setting a container or bulky item out before noon on the day preceding the scheduled collection day, to limit interference with public rights-of-way. Under (D), containers must sit where the collector designates and stay accessible for mechanized pickup during the collection window, but except while out for curbside collection, residential containers cannot be visible from the public right-of-way, meaning they must otherwise be stored out of street view, such as in a side yard or garage.
the day after the regularly scheduled collection. Commercial accounts get a related rule under (F): once a collector is notified that commercial service is ending, it must pull all of its bins from the premises within one week. 190, and collectors must keep commercial bins graffiti-free and posted against hazardous-waste disposal.
Violations & Fines
Setting a container out early, leaving it visible outside the collection window, exceeding the 65-pound weight limit, or failing to remove it by 6:00 a.m. the day after pickup violates § 6.16.160 and is punishable as set out in § 6.16.280 under §§ 1.12.010 through 1.12.050, with any Chapter 6.16 violation classified a misdemeanor under § 6.16.290. A collector that fails to remove discontinued commercial bins within one week under (F) is separately in violation.
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