Clovis, CA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Collection frequency
- Once weekly, same day as trash
- Monthly fee
- $3.66
- Free containers
- 1 per residential customer
- Additional container cost
- Same $3.66 monthly fee
- Rate adjustment
- +4% every July 1 since 2007
Summary
Clovis provides every residential customer with once-a-week greenwaste pickup on the same day as regular trash, charging $3.66 a month and supplying one City-labeled container at no initial cost. Grass clippings, prunings, wood, and other landscape organics go in that bin, set out by the same curbside deadline as garbage.
Service. All residential customers within the City limits of the City shall be provided with once-a-week greenwaste container services by the authorized agent on the same days as regular container or other refuse service is provided the residential customer. ... Fees and charges. Each residential customer shall be charged for the availability of the greenwaste container service in the amount three and 66/100ths dollars ($3.66) per month, to be billed at the same time and in the same manner as refuse/garbage service is billed. Each residential customer shall be provided one (1) City-labeled container for greenwaste at no initial charge.
Full Breakdown
24 defines greenwaste as grass clippings, prunings, wood, and other organic material normally generated by landscape maintenance, collected for single-family residences and non-mobile-home-park multifamily residences with curbside capability that the City designates for the service. Subsection (b) requires the authorized agent to provide once-a-week greenwaste container service on the same collection day as the customer's regular refuse or recycling pickup, though the City can designate a different day where special circumstances apply; residents must separate and set greenwaste at curbside, or another City-approved location, no later than the same time garbage and refuse are set out.
66, billed with the refuse account, and supplies one City-labeled container at no initial charge; a resident whose container is destroyed through abuse or willful neglect is billed actual replacement cost plus delivery and administration expenses, except where the City finds that infeasible. 66 fee. Under subsection (f), the greenwaste rate has climbed 4% every July 1st since 2007, the same schedule Council applies to the curbside recycling rate.
Violations & Fines
Subsection (e) bars anyone besides the City's authorized agent and its officers, agents, and employees from picking up, collecting, or removing material from a greenwaste container once it's been placed at curbside for collection, the same anti-scavenging rule that covers recycling bins; a violation is a misdemeanor under Chapter 6.3's general violations clause, § 6.3.18. Willful damage to a City-provided greenwaste container is billed to the resident at actual replacement cost plus delivery and administration expenses under subsection (c).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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