Pleasanton, CA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum pickup frequency
- Once per week
- Hauler
- City's exclusive franchise collector
- Container requirement
- Watertight, covered carts or bins
- Truck ID lettering
- 6 inches high minimum
- Violation classification
- Misdemeanor or administrative citation
- Governing chapter
- PMC Chapter 9.20
Summary
Every occupied home, business and industrial building in Pleasanton must have solid waste, recyclables and organic waste collection through the city's single exclusive hauler contract, picked up at least once a week on a schedule the hauler files with the city. Waste has to be stored in sealed, watertight carts between pickups, and interfering with the hauler's collection is a misdemeanor.
The city may make such regulations concerning the number and manner of collections of solid waste, recyclables and organic waste as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, but in no case shall collection services less than once a week be permitted. ... Times and dates of collection shall be according to a schedule prepared by collector and approved by the city.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4955754; v17 updated 2026-06-02).
Full Breakdown
100). 050 requires that waste, recyclables and organic material be kept separated in 'suitable and sufficient watertight carts or bins,' sized for what accumulates between pickups and kept covered to keep out flies. 070 requires the hauler's trucks to be all-steel-body, leakproof and covered while hauling, washed at least weekly, and marked with the collector's name, address, phone number and truck number in letters at least six inches high. 045 bars anyone but the contracted hauler from removing waste from the curb, with narrow exceptions for donations, a contractor's own construction debris, animal-waste haulers, and public school, county or federal facilities.
Violations & Fines
Failing to use the required cart system or collection service, or interfering with the hauler's collection work, is a misdemeanor or, at the city's option, an administrative citation under Chapter 1.24, per § 9.20.030(A) and (C). Illegally dumping waste in a lot, street, alley or waterway is separately barred by § 9.20.030(D), and unauthorized third-party removal under § 9.20.045 is its own violation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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