Beaumont, CA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 8.12.410 of the Beaumont Municipal Code is the green waste rule for landscapers. A landscaper can collect, transport and compost or dispose of green waste without a self-haul permit, but only if the waste comes from the landscaper's own specific work site and goes to a site permitted by CalRecycle or exempt from permitting. A landscaper who hires a solid waste enterprise instead must use one that holds a franchise from the City. Section 8.12.550 backs this up by limiting who can collect waste from any premises to the franchisee, self-haul permit holders, landscapers, and licensed contractors working within their licenses.

Recordkeeping is specific. Landscapers must record the organic waste they deliver to each solid waste facility, operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers organic waste, and the City can inspect those records. Each record includes delivery receipts and weight tickets from the receiving entity and the amount of material in cubic yards or tons. If the receiving entity has no scales, or scales too small for the landscaper's vehicle, the landscaper does not record weight but still keeps a record of the entities that received the waste. Section 8.12.170(G) ties commercial landscaping businesses to this section.

For homeowners, Section 8.12.020 defines green waste as leaves, grass clippings, brush, branches and other landscape or garden maintenance material, including unadorned holiday trees, but not stumps or branches over four inches in diameter or four feet in length, palm fronds, or yucca. Section 8.12.160 requires every single-family premises to arrange organic waste recycling service with the City or its franchisee, and lets residents compost on site or feed organic waste to animals on the premises if the property stays sanitary and free of nuisance. Oversized green waste up to two feet in diameter and four feet in length counts as bulky waste. Leaf blowers, hoses, rakes or brooms cannot push clippings into a gutter or street (Section 8.32.025), and accumulated tree trimmings are a declared public nuisance (Section 8.32.130).