Chino, CA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

170 prohibits a broad list of acts: to "throw, drop, leave, dump, bury, place, keep, accumulate, or otherwise dispose of any solid waste" on another person's private property, whether or not the person intends to later remove it, or on any street, way, sidewalk, gutter, stream or creek or its banks, or any public place or public property. The only exception is land the city itself uses as a disposal or staging area. 010 to include garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish, construction waste, demolition debris, industrial waste and bulky items, excluding hazardous waste, sewage sludge, asbestos, auto bodies, tires and dead animals.

180 requires owners, contractors and builders to gather and haul away, at their own expense, all construction or demolition debris upon completing or demolishing a structure and to leave the site in a sightly condition. 190 gives the city exclusive authority over solid waste collection and makes it unlawful to collect solid waste in the city without a council-issued permit. 200 separately bans scavenging from, tampering with, or tipping any city or recycling collection container, treating that conduct as an infraction. 010, unless a section specifies a different penalty, such as the infraction penalty carved out for container scavenging.