Baldwin Park, CA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)
Key Facts
- Free pickups per year (cart service)
- Up to 6, with 48-hr notice
- Free pickup size cap
- 3 cubic yards or 1 appliance
- Notice required
- 48 hours before collection date
- Adjacent right-of-way dumping
- Owner responsible for cost
- Bin-service customers
- Pay a Council-set rate each pickup
Summary
Baldwin Park gives cart-service customers up to six free bulky waste pickups a year with 48 hours' notice, capped at three cubic yards or one appliance per pickup, under Municipal Code Section 50.09; owners are on the hook for dumped items left on adjacent sidewalks.
(a) Bulky waste will be picked up from a premises receiving cart service without cost if all the following conditions are met: 1. The franchisee has been provided notice not less than 48 hours prior to the regularly scheduled collection date...; 2. ... Not more than six such collections have been made from such premises in the current calendar year; 3. The bulky waste is located near the curb adjacent to such premises; and 4. The bulky waste in any single pickup does not exceed three cubic yards of refuse or consists of one household appliance.
Full Breakdown
01 as large household items like appliances, e-waste, water heaters, furnaces, furniture, tires, carpets, and mattresses, whether it sits on their own premises or in the right-of-way immediately adjacent. 04 to maintain the adjacent sidewalk and parkway: every owner is deemed to have authorized the franchisee to remove bulky waste dumped in that strip whether or not anyone requested it, and the owner bears the removal cost even if a stranger dumped it there without consent. 09(C)(1) sets the free-pickup terms for cart-service customers: no charge applies if the franchisee gets at least 48 hours' notice before the regular collection date, no more than six such pickups have occurred at that address in the current calendar year, the waste sits near the curb, and a single pickup does not exceed three cubic yards or consist of more than one household appliance.
Missing any of those conditions triggers a Council-set service rate, and a non-owner occupant's unpaid bulky waste charge becomes the owner's liability. 09(C)(2), though the Council must set a lower rate when 48 hours' notice is given, and again the owner is liable if a non-owner customer fails to pay.
Violations & Fines
Failing to arrange bulky waste removal from a premises, or from the adjacent sidewalk and parkway strip, is a violation of Section 50.09 and the related sidewalk-maintenance duty in Section 97.049; unpaid bulky waste service charges become a civil debt collectible from the owner under Section 50.06(A).
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