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

010 defines BULKY WASTE as large and small household appliances, furniture, carpets, mattresses, white goods, brown goods, clothing, automobile tires and similar large items, or any other solid waste item requiring special handling, discarded by residential customers, while excluding TVs, computers and other electronics, which fall under separate universal-waste rules enforced by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control. Because bulky items do not fit the routine weekly cart, the same section's SPECIAL SERVICES definition classifies bulky-waste pickup, along with container repair, container exchange or replacement, roll-out service and unscheduled extra collection, as services outside the city's normal course of collection.

040(E) requires customers who need any of those special services to contact the franchised hauler directly to arrange it, and the charges for that service are set out in the franchise agreement between the city and the hauler rather than in a flat citywide fee schedule. 120(A)(1) separately directs owners to keep the area around their containers free of items requiring special handling such as furniture and appliances.