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

050 of the Murrieta Municipal Code sets the pickup obligations for every single-family organic waste generator in the city, meaning essentially every household. Subsection (A) requires residents to subscribe to and pay for the city's organic waste three-container collection service for all solid waste generated, including organic waste, and gives the city the right to review the number and size of a generator's containers to evaluate adequacy of capacity provided for each type of collection service, adding that single-family generators shall adjust their service level for their collection services as requested by the city.

In practice that means a household cannot simply skip curbside service or under-size its containers if the volume of trash, recycling, or organics it generates doesn't fit; the city can require an upsized cart or additional service. 9(c) instead of putting all of it in the city cart, though the base three-container subscription itself is not optional. The requirements were adopted to implement California's SB 1383 organic-waste-reduction mandate, and the chapter's findings section explains that the city must enforce these participation rules to meet statewide disposal-reduction targets. 170, apply to any failure to subscribe or maintain adequate service.