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

040 sets the residential receptacle standard: garbage must go in a container of 32 gallons or less that holds no more than 60 pounds loaded and has a tight-fitting lid, while recycling goes in a franchisee-provided 64-gallon cart or a tied 30-gallon blue bag and yard waste in a franchisee 96-gallon cart. Multi-family and commercial properties instead use franchisee-provided carts, bins, drop boxes or compactors, with lids kept closed except while waste is being added or removed. Subsection D requires every receptacle to be kept clean, sanitary, tightly covered, and, critically for a bear-country town, secure against access by wildlife to the contents at all times.

Residents may instead store containers in a bear shed built of metal, stone, brick, concrete or equivalently sturdy material, with a front-facing door, room for two 32-gallon cans, a snow-shedding roof and locking pins, located out of the Town right-of-way and within 28 feet of the roadway edge; farther than that triggers extra servicing fees. on collection day and must be pulled back off the street or right-of-way that same day, while commercial bins can go out up to twelve hours ahead. Blue-bag recyclables must sit tied and separated next to the refuse container on the designated day.