Alameda, CA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

6 of the Alameda Municipal Code entitles each residential customer to on-call clean-up collection events through the exclusive franchisee. The customer calls to schedule a pickup, and the franchisee must come on its regularly scheduled collection day within five business days of the request. At each event, a resident can set out up to three cubic yards of reusable materials, recyclable materials, yard trimmings, and solid waste, plus up to three bulky items, at no charge, and one of those three items may be e-waste, with a personal computer's monitor, keyboard, mouse, and CPU together counting as a single e-waste item.

on the pickup day, but not before the Saturday beforehand. A bulky item, as defined in Sec. 21-1, means a discarded appliance, piece of furniture, tire, carpet, mattress, or bundled and tied yard trimmings or wood waste that two people can carry, weighs no more than one hundred fifty pounds, and does not need a forklift or crane; it must come from the customer's own address, and cannot be an abandoned automobile, large auto part, tree, or construction debris. Anyone who exceeds the free clean-up limits is billed at rates the franchisee sets under City-approved policies, which cannot exceed the rate ceilings the City has established.