Camarillo, CA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Earliest curb placement
- 4 p.m. day before collection
- Latest curb placement
- 6:30 a.m. on collection day
- Return-to-storage deadline
- 8 p.m. collection day
- Curb position
- Behind curbline, close as practicable
- Storage requirement
- Not visible from the street
- Container condition
- No spilling, leaking or odors
Summary
Camarillo trash and recycling carts cannot go to the curb before 4 p.m. the day before collection and must be out by 6:30 a.m. on collection day, under Sec. 9.04.070. Carts must come back off the curb by 8 p.m. that evening and be stored where they can't be seen from the street.
B.Time of Placement. No person may place a container adjacent to a street or public right-of-way before four p.m. on the day before the regularly scheduled collection day, nor may any person place any bulky items adjacent to a street or public right-of-way before four p.m. on the day before the collection day set by the solid waste collector. All containers or bulky items must be placed in a proper collection location by six-thirty a.m. on the day of collection.C.Location of Placement. Any container or bulky items permitted to be placed for collection adjacent to a street, must be placed behind but as close to the curbline or the street right-of-way line as practicable. ... D.Return to Storage Location. After the collection of solid waste, each container must be promptly removed by no later than eight p.m. on the regular collection day, and returned to a location on the lot where the container cannot be viewed from the street.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 070 sets Camarillo's residential and commercial set-out window for trash, recycling and bulky-item collection. on the day of collection. Placement must sit behind but as close to the curbline or the street right-of-way line as practicable, or, along an alley, as close to the right-of-way line of the alley as practicable. After pickup, Sec. on the regular collection day and returned to a spot on the lot where it cannot be viewed from the street, effectively banning long-term curbside or front-yard storage of empty carts.
Sec. 060 layers on general container standards: each container must hold a full collection cycle's waste without spilling, leaking or emitting excessive odors, sized consistent with city regulations or the franchise agreement, and the responsible person for the premises must keep it in a sanitary condition. Only the responsible person or the franchised hauler may move a placed container under Sec. 080, and Sec. 090 separately bars anyone else from scavenging through a container once waste is set out for collection.
Violations & Fines
Setting a cart out too early, leaving it at the curb past 8 p.m. on collection day, or storing it visibly from the street between pickups violates Sec. 9.04.070 and is enforceable under the general code penalty in Sec. 1.12.020, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine, six months in jail, or both. Moving or scavenging another resident's container without permission separately violates Sec. 9.04.080 and 9.04.090, each its own citable offense.
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