Oxnard, CA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Service frequency
- Once per week
- Standard cart size
- 96-gallon refuse/recycle/organics
- Subscription
- Mandatory, §19-160(C)
- Hours set by
- City council resolution, §19-153(A)
- Max penalties
- $1,000 misdemeanor or $100-$500 infraction
Summary
Oxnard requires every single-family home and mobile home to subscribe to weekly refuse, recycling, and organics pickup under City Code § 19-203(A), which sets a 96-gallon refuse cart (64-gallon minimum), 96-gallon recycling cart, and 96-gallon organics cart serviced once a week. Subscription is mandatory under § 19-160(C), and the city council fixes collection days and hours by resolution under § 19-153(A).
Single family dwellings, single family dwellings with less than three units, and mobile homes shall each receive a 96-gallon refuse container, a 96-gallon recycle container, and a 96-gallon green/organics waste container that will be serviced once a week. The minimum service requirements for residential and mobile home type dwellings listed herein shall be a 64-gallon refuse container, a 96-gallon recycle container, and a 96-gallon green/organics waste container that will be serviced once a week.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Contains Supplement current through 1-26-2026).
Full Breakdown
The Public Works solid waste division runs Oxnard's mandatory cart program under Chapter 19, Article II of the city code. Section 19-203(A) sets residential minimum service at a 96-gallon refuse container, 96-gallon recycling container, and 96-gallon organics container serviced once a week for single-family homes and mobile homes with less than three units; the citywide floor is a 64-gallon refuse cart. Section 19-160(C) requires every single-family generator to subscribe to the city's two- or three-container collection service for all refuse, recycling, and organic materials generated, to place source-separated material in the correct cart, and to allow the city periodic inspection access to containers.
The city retains the right under § 19-160(C)(3)-(4) to review and adjust a generator's container size or collection frequency and can require the resident to change service level on request. Section 19-153(A) gives the city council authority to set collection hours by resolution, and during a declared local or general emergency or pandemic the city manager may adjust those hours directly. Multi-family and commercial accounts follow a parallel weekly schedule under § 19-160(D)-(E), though those generators may request a de minimis or physical-space waiver under § 19-154(B) if their organic waste volume falls below the thresholds set for a two-cubic-yard or larger container.
Violations & Fines
Noncompliance with the collection-schedule requirements is enforced under § 19-201, which routes violations to § 1-10's citywide penalty schedule: a general misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $1,000, up to six months in jail, or both, or, at the city attorney's discretion, prosecution as an infraction carrying escalating fines of $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second within a year, and $500 for the third and each later offense. Every day a violation continues is a separate offense.
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