Davis, CA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

070 sets the collection frequency and basic service level for individually serviced residences in Davis. Subsection (a) fixes collection at once per week. Subsection (b) describes the basic service as one green container, one gray container and one split blue container, each a thirty- to one hundred-gallon cart or another size the city or its contract hauler authorizes. Subsection (c) leaves the service level for restricted areas, streets too narrow or dense for standard curbside collection, to be set by the city case by case.

Subsection (d) creates assisted service for residents with disabilities: instead of curbside pickup, the hauler retrieves the gray, green and split blue containers from an accessible point no more than seventy-five feet from the curb, on a petition approved by the city manager or designee and renewed annually, and a resident qualifies by showing a valid disabled-person parking permit or license from the State of California. Subsection (e) lets individually serviced residents request an additional gray container, capped at the size of their regularly subscribed service.

080 governs commercial businesses and multifamily properties, requiring at least twice-weekly removal for food stores, restaurants and other generators of substantial putrescible waste, at least weekly removal for everything else, and barring collection on Sundays except in an emergency.