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

Two sections of Chapter 8.28 govern where a commercial dumpster sits in the City of Yucaipa. Section 8.28.170 puts the duty on every person designated under § 8.28.050, meaning each owner and occupant of developed property, to keep containers in a suitable place. Those containers must hold, without spilling, all refuse that would ordinarily accumulate between two successive collections, so an undersized dumpster is a violation on its own. The suitable place is the location defined by the city's development code, zoning code or general plan, and generally out of direct view from the adjoining public street. Section 8.28.210 adds the access rule: commercial bins shall be accessible to the contractor.

Related rules fill in the rest. Under § 8.28.180, refuse and recyclables go in standard containers or bins approved by the city manager and the collector, no container can be kept or placed for collection if it does not conform to the designated standard, and the hauler cannot deliver a container to a location the chapter or the development code does not authorize. Section 8.28.200(C) lets the city manager specify the collection frequency for commercial and multifamily premises and the size and number of bins required. Section 8.28.220 declares keeping refuse in containers other than those the chapter prescribes, or keeping offensive, obnoxious or unsanitary refuse on premises, an unlawful public nuisance that can be abated.

Roll-off containers are controlled by who supplies them. Section 8.26.060(C) states that only the city's franchise waste hauler is authorized to provide roll-off bins and bin service, and § 8.26.100(B) requires all on-site roll-off containers at a covered demolition or construction project to come from that hauler. Under § 8.28.340 the collector keeps bins in good repair and cleans them as necessary to control vector problems. Section 8.28.080 lets the council award commercial collection franchises by resolution, and § 8.28.060 allows fees for dumpster use.