Brentwood, CA Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

210 gives the director of public works final say over where dumpsters and roll-off equipment are staged for pickup: "the director of public works shall determine the place, estimated quantities, and times and manner of removal" whenever a dispute or complaint arises, and that authority reaches both city-service customers and customers of other city-authorized haulers. The same section lets the director "prescribe the hydraulic hose, electrical, and hook up procedures for front loader compactor bins and roll-off compactors" and set locking requirements for containers and enclosure doors.

16, definitions). 200, commercial premises are separately required to subscribe to the city's three-container collection service and to supply enough containers of adequate size, number and location for employees, tenants and customers; every commercial account must carry at minimum a 32-gallon black container, a 64-gallon blue container and a 64-gallon green container, and the city can raise the subscribed service level and bill for it if a customer's waste consistently exceeds what its containers hold. 085. Certain planned-development commercial and industrial zones layer on their own screening rule requiring dumpsters and compactors to sit inside masonry or cement refuse enclosures built to city standards, so a roll-off placed outside an approved enclosure in those zones can draw a separate zoning citation on top of any collection-service issue.