Redlands, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Citation
- Redlands City Code § 13.64.070
- Subscription
- Mandatory for every property
- Separation duty
- Residents must separate organics/green waste
- Commercial trigger
- 2+ cubic yards/week needs recycling service
- Penalty
- Misdemeanor under § 13.64.320
Summary
Redlands requires every property to subscribe to solid waste, organic waste, and recycling collection services, and residential customers with automated service must keep recyclables and organic waste separated from other trash.
A. Residential: 1. ... Every property shall subscribe to automated or nonautomated solid waste, organic, and recycling services. It is unlawful for any property to keep, accumulate, or permit to be kept or accumulated, any solid waste in or upon any private place unless the same shall be in a container for such as specified in this chapter... 3. ... Residential customers with automated service shall be responsible for the separation of organic and green waste from all other solid waste generated by the property.
Full Breakdown
070 makes participation in the municipal collection system mandatory rather than optional: every residential property must subscribe to automated or nonautomated solid waste, organic, and recycling service, and it is unlawful to keep or accumulate solid waste on a property except in a container specified by the chapter, or to fail to arrange for its removal. Residential customers on automated service are specifically made responsible for separating organic and green waste from the rest of their trash before it goes to the curb. Commercial properties face a parallel rule: every commercial property must subscribe to bin, roll-off, can, or automated service, and any commercial generator of two cubic yards or more of solid waste per collection must also subscribe to organic and recycling collection.
If waste is allowed to accumulate in violation of the section, the city may remove it itself and bill the customer a service fee equal to the cost of removal. 270. The requirement traces to Ordinance 2929, adopted in 2021, amending the original 1998 solid waste chapter (Ordinance 2382) to add the mandatory organics component required by state law.
Violations & Fines
Violating Section 13.64.070 is unlawful; the city may abate an accumulation itself and charge the customer a service fee equal to its removal cost. Chapter 13.64 as a whole carries a general penalty at Section 13.64.320: any person violating any provision of the chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, enforced by the municipal utilities director under Section 13.64.310, who may inspect the exterior of any property to check compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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