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

Senate Bill 1383, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016, added Health and Safety Code Section 39730.6, which locks the state's organic-waste diversion math in place: a 50 percent reduction in the statewide landfill disposal of organic waste measured against the 2014 baseline by 2020, and a 75 percent reduction against that same baseline by 2025. Section 39730.5 required the state board to approve and begin implementing the broader short-lived climate pollutant strategy underlying that target no later than January 1, 2018, following at least three public hearings held in geographically diverse parts of the state. Public Resources Code Section 42652, in the companion Short-Lived Climate Pollutants chapter, ties the disposal targets to the state's recycling goal in Section 41780.01 and finds that hitting them 'requires significant investment to develop organics recycling capacity.'

These statewide targets are what CalRecycle's SB 1383 regulations translate into Livermore's mandatory three-container pickup service (landfill, recycling and compost carts) and into the local ordinance the City adopted to implement them, codified separately at Livermore Municipal Code Chapter 8.08, Article XII. The statute itself sets no city-level fine; it directs the state board and CalRecycle to build the regulatory and enforcement framework, which Livermore then carries out through the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, one of the SB 1383 'member agencies' the state law contemplates delegating enforcement to locally.