Los Angeles, CA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

03(c), owners, generators, or their agents at commercial establishments and multi-family dwellings that the City does not directly service must subscribe to and pay for Collection Services from a permitted Solid Waste Hauler, there is no opt-out into self-hauling for these properties absent a Bureau waiver process under a related subsection. 03(d) sets the minimum level of service: enough containers, in the right sizes, collected often enough to remove everything the premises generates within a seven-day period, excluding recyclables and organics that are picked up separately.

The property owner or agent and the hauler negotiate that minimum service level directly; if they cannot agree, the Director of the Bureau of Sanitation makes the call and that determination is binding. 1(a)(1) establishes the underlying policy: household solid waste is collected in one or more containers by a single pickup on a regularly scheduled basis, with additional pickups only when approved by Council resolution. 03(a): no person may keep solid waste on any premises for more than seven days (composting/mulch organics excepted), which is the functional floor that drives how often a schedule must run regardless of whether the City or a franchised private hauler is doing the picking up. The Bureau of Sanitation administers City-side service and enforces the private-hauler franchise system under the same article.