Brentwood, CA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Brentwood makes trash collection mandatory rather than optional. 170 declares that periodic collection benefits every property where solid waste accumulates and makes the owner liable for collection charges whether or not they actually use the service; a landlord may require a tenant to subscribe, but the owner still answers for the bill if the tenant does not comply. 200 sets the residential minimum at once-a-week black-cart trash collection plus once-every-other-week collection of organic waste and recyclable materials, with one standard 32-gallon cart per service per dwelling unit as the floor; the city decides whether a unit gets cart or bin service and what size is appropriate.

Commercial customers must subscribe to at least a 32-gallon black container, a 64-gallon blue container, and a 64-gallon green container, and larger generators can be moved to a higher service tier if the city finds overages in three of four consecutive pickups. 190; a separate waste-diversion exemption requires monthly reports showing at least fifty percent of generated waste is diverted from landfill. 180 makes continued failure to subscribe unlawful: the director sends written notice giving the property three days, or seventy-two hours, to sign up before the city can subscribe the property itself and bill the owner, plus pursue abatement and a lien for the cost.

220, which requires collection at least every seven days for regular solid waste and at least every fourteen days for source-separated recyclables and organics, unless the director finds weekly service inadequate to keep a property sanitary.