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

132 governs where the city's three-container carts for refuse, recyclables and organic materials can sit once a property is enrolled in the automated collection program. For premises served by an alley, subsection A requires residents to keep their carts on private property, though not necessarily hidden from view, and bars placing them in the alley right-of-way; residences using the larger three hundred-gallon containers get a container area designated by the public works director. The public works director may allow alley right-of-way placement only under unusual circumstances that make it impossible to keep the carts on private property.

For premises not served by an alley, subsection B requires the carts to stay on private property and out of public view from the right-of-way at all other times, with one narrow exception: on the designated collection day, the 'approved location for collection' is within the roadway itself, with the container wheels set against the curb abutting the property. 135(C). The current version was rewritten in its entirety by Ordinance No. 3078 in 2017, with a further amendment in February 2020, so older placement language from the 1988 ordinance no longer applies.