Huntington Park, CA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Huntington Park Municipal Code § 6-2.105 governs every bin, cart, rolloff box, and other container used for solid waste in the City of Huntington Park. Subsection (b) sets the street window: nothing goes adjacent to or in a street or public right-of-way for collection service before 6:00 p.m. on the evening preceding the normal collection time, and every container placed there must be removed from the street or right-of-way by 8:00 p.m. on the day of collection.

Subsection (c) requires lids to remain closed at all times the container is unattended, and when the waste exceeds the container's actual capacity the occupant must use a larger container or multiple containers. Subsection (a) requires sealed, watertight containers that are provided by or acceptable to a franchisee, or approved by the City Manager for self-hauling.

Subsection (f) is the screening rule for single-family dwellings: containers are stored out of public view in a side or rear yard or an enclosed garage except on collection day. If the physical design of the premises does not allow for obscuring containers from public view, they go in the area at the point furthest from the closest street or roadway. Subsection (g) lets the City Manager, where a premises lacks space, approve placing containers on a City parking lot, inside enclosures the City Manager approves. The Zoning Code repeats the sight-line point in § 9-3.103, which says trash receptacles for single-family homes shall not be visible from public rights-of-way or nearby street(s).

Sharing is restricted too. Under subsection (d) it is unlawful to use another person's or business's container, except that the owner of a multi-family premises can arrange shared containers for the occupants, and the occupants of a single commercial building or contiguous and adjacent commercial buildings can share a container at a common location with City Manager approval. Subsection (e) bars using a franchisee's container for anything other than solid waste, altering it for other uses, or intentionally damaging it.