Camarillo, CA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)
Key Facts
- Earliest curb placement
- 4 p.m. day before collection
- Must be out by
- 6:30 a.m. on collection day
- Container/items removed by
- 8 p.m. collection day
- Curb placement rule
- behind, close to curbline
- First infraction fine
- up to $100
- Self-haul alternative
- permit under Sec. 9.04.050
Summary
Camarillo lets residents set bulky items at the curb on the same schedule as regular trash, but only inside a strict window: no earlier than 4 p.m. the day before collection, and off the street by 8 p.m. the day of pickup, per Municipal Code Sec. 9.04.070.
... Bulky items may be placed at the same locations as solid waste required to be placed for collection within a container. B.Time of Placement. No person may place a container adjacent to a street or public right-of-way before four p.m. on the day before the regularly scheduled collection day, nor may any person place any bulky items adjacent to a street or public right-of-way before four p.m. on the day before the collection day set by the solid waste collector. All containers or bulky items must be placed in a proper collection location by six-thirty a.m. on the day of collection. C.Location of Placement. Any container or bulky items permitted to be placed for collection adjacent to a street, must be placed behind but as close to the curbline or the street right-of-way line as practicable. ... D.Return to Storage Location. After the collection of solid waste, each container must be promptly removed by no later than eight p.m. on the regular collection day, and returned to a location on the lot where the container cannot be viewed from the street.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
070 of the Camarillo Municipal Code, part of the city's Integrated Waste Management chapter, folds bulky item disposal into the same placement rules that govern trash and recycling carts. Subsection A allows bulky items to go out "at the same locations as solid waste required to be placed for collection within a container," but bars placing them anywhere else or in any manner not authorized by the city's franchise agreement. on collection day itself. Subsection C controls placement location: items set out along a street must sit behind, but as close as practicable to, the curbline or right-of-way line; along an alley, they go on the lot as close as practicable to the alley right-of-way.
on collection day and store it where it "cannot be viewed from the street," which functionally caps how long bulky items and containers can occupy the curb to roughly 16 hours around the actual pickup. Because bulky item pickup runs through the city's residential solid waste franchisee under Sec. 150, the exact day bulky items go out is set by that collector, not by a fixed citywide calendar in the code. Residents who accumulate more waste than the franchise service handles can instead apply for a self-haul permit from the city's solid waste officer under Sec. 050, which requires disposal reports and gate tickets documenting where the material went.
Violations & Fines
Putting bulky items out too early, leaving them past pickup, or dumping them anywhere but the authorized curb or alley location violates Sec. 9.04.070 and is enforced under the code's general penalty chapter. A first violation is chargeable as a misdemeanor under Sec. 1.12.020, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine or six months in jail, but the city attorney or a code enforcement officer routinely reduces it to an infraction under Sec. 1.12.070: up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second within a year, and $500 for each additional offense of the same section. Items abandoned outside a container can also be cited as unlawful dumping under Sec. 9.04.120.
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