Redding, CA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Who must subscribe
- Single-family, multifamily, and commercial premises
- Service options
- City subscription or approved self-haul/subcontract
- Exclusive collector rule
- Only the city or authorized haulers may collect
- Billing method
- Same billing and delinquency rules as water/light bills
- Unpaid charges
- Become a lien on the served property
- Reenacted
- Ordinance No. 2648, adopted June 7, 2022
Summary
Every single-family home, multifamily building, and commercial property in Redding must maintain a subscription for regular solid waste collection from the city, or arrange permitted self-hauling, so that no premises in the city goes without organized disposal service.
Every person in possession, charge, or control of any single-family dwelling, multi-family dwelling, or commercial premises shall ensure that arrangements are made to properly dispose of the solid waste created, produced, or accumulated on the premises through maintaining a subscription for regular solid waste collection services from the city or, where permissible, self-hauling and/or subcontracting services.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 48).
Full Breakdown
170 makes solid waste service mandatory rather than optional. Subsection B requires every person in possession, charge, or control of a single-family dwelling, multifamily dwelling, or commercial premises to ensure arrangements are made to properly dispose of the waste the property generates, either by maintaining a subscription for regular solid waste collection service from the city or, where permissible, through self-hauling or a subcontracted hauling service. Subsection D backs this with an exclusive-collector rule: no person other than the city or an authorized collector may collect, transport, or provide solid waste service within the city, with narrow carve-outs for hazardous and medical waste handlers, owners or licensed contractors removing landscaping waste they generated, volunteers collecting litter, cooperative neighborhood cleanups, and city crews themselves.
120 requires those charges be paid the same way as water and light bills, under the same delinquency rules. 140 by personal action or lien foreclosure. 28 under Ordinance No. 2648, adopted June 7, 2022, which restructured Redding's waste system to comply with the state's organic waste diversion mandates while keeping mandatory subscription as the baseline model.
Violations & Fines
Operating a single-family, multifamily, or commercial property in Redding without a solid waste subscription or an approved self-haul/subcontract arrangement violates Section 9.28.170(B), and collecting or hauling waste within the city without authorization violates the exclusive-collector rule in Section 9.28.170(D). Both are enforced under the chapter's general penalty, Section 9.28.320: an infraction fined $100 for a first violation within a year, $200 for a second, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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