Victorville, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Mandatory service
- All occupied premises, residential through institutional
- Start deadline
- Owner must initiate service within 3 days
- Nonpayment
- If unpaid, city may start service and bill owner
- Container rule
- Recyclables only in designated recycling container
- Penalty
- Infraction under Section 1.04.010 via Sec. 6.36.170
Summary
Victorville requires recycling and solid waste processing service at every occupied property under Municipal Code Sections 6.36.035 and 6.36.036. The city or its authorized recycling agent sets designated recycling locations and service levels, and owners must start service within three days of occupancy or the city will initiate it and bill the property owner of record.
(a)The city shall provide recycling and solid waste processing services, which may include recycling from all premises within the city. Such services may include designation of an authorized recycling agent... solid waste handling services and recycling and solid waste processing services (collectively referred to hereinafter as "collection services") shall be provided by the city, its agents or the city authorized waste and recycling contractors to all occupied premises... each owner of occupied premises...shall be responsible for initiating collection services within three days after occupancy commences and shall be responsible for the payment of all fees incident to such collection services.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 57).
Full Breakdown
035(a) directs that the city shall provide recycling and solid waste processing services, which may include recycling from all premises within the city, and lets the city designate an authorized recycling agent and set recycle material segregation from other material, designated recycling collection location, level of services, and charges and fees. 035(b). 036 turns that authority into a mandatory duty: solid waste handling services and recycling and solid waste processing services shall be provided by the city, its agents, or the city authorized waste and recycling contractors to all occupied premises, covering residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional property alike.
Each property owner shall be responsible for initiating collection services within three days after occupancy commences and shall be responsible for the payment of all fees. 036(c). 010(7), such as clean paper, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, tin and aluminum cans, and plastic bottles and containers; placing solid waste in the recycling bin, or recyclables in the trash bin, is declared unlawful.
Violations & Fines
Section 6.36.114 makes it unlawful to place waste generated on a property into any container other than the one the city or its contractor provided, and only the customer of record or an authorized city agent may move a container from where it was set for collection. Chapter 6.36 violations, including misuse of a recycling container under Section 6.36.113, are enforced under Section 6.36.170, which applies the infraction penalties of Section 1.04.010 to any violation of the chapter.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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