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

Section 62-13 ties minimum pickup frequency to two standards at once: waste must be disposed of often enough to avoid violating the general nuisance-accumulation rule in section 30-32, and in no case less than once a week, whichever requires more frequent service. The only exception written into the section itself applies to a premises that's temporarily unoccupied: if solid waste isn't accumulating there because the resident is traveling or in a similar situation, less-than-weekly disposal is allowed for that stretch, but the moment the property is back in use, the weekly floor applies again.

Residential and commercial accounts run on the three-container system set out in sections 62-15 and 62-16, gray for landfill-bound waste, blue for source-separated recyclables, and green for organic waste, and the city can require a generator to adjust the number, size, or servicing frequency of its containers if what's provided doesn't match what the property actually generates. Beyond the built-in unoccupancy exception, section 62-17(c) is the only other way to move off a weekly cycle: the city may, entirely at its discretion and only in line with the state's organics-recycling regulation at 14 CCR Section 18984.11(a)(3), let a subscriber arrange collection of the blue container, the gray container, or both once every 14 days instead of weekly. That waiver has to be requested and approved; it isn't something a resident or business can simply start doing on their own, and it applies specifically to the blue and gray streams, not to the green organics container generally.