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

280 lists the specific duties the franchise collector must perform under its agreement with the city, and subsection (j) guarantees single-family residential customers two free bulky goods collections every year, on top of their regular weekly cart service; anything beyond those two visits, or any pickup of construction and demolition debris, is available only at an additional charge arranged directly with the customer. 040 spell out what counts as 'bulky goods': large and small household appliances, furniture, carpets, mattresses, white goods, brown goods, clothing, tires, and oversized landscape debris such as tree trunks and large branches, along with similar large refuse items, but the definition specifically excludes construction and demolition waste, which is handled separately under the chapter's Article VII diversion program.

The same franchise-duty section also requires the collector to provide free collection from city-owned sites and facilities, maintain routes and schedules set out in the franchise agreement, and operate a business office within Fremont with posted service hours, all as backdrop to how the bulky-item benefit is delivered. Because the two free pickups are a service standard built into the franchise agreement rather than a permit or registration scheme, the city's main enforcement lever is the franchise agreement itself and the general chapter violation provisions in Article VI, which let the community services director inspect and cite the collector or, on the generator side, cite improper set-out of bulky items outside the allowed schedule.