Redding, CA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Diameter limit
- 6 inches maximum for uncollected trimmings
- Length limit
- 4 feet maximum
- Weight limit
- 75 pounds maximum
- Bundling required
- Brush and garden trimmings must be tied in bundles
- No receptacle needed
- Tree trimmings can be set loose if within limits
- Reenacted
- Ordinance No. 2648, adopted June 7, 2022
Summary
Redding collects tree trimmings, limbs, trunks, stumps, brush, and garden trimmings without a can, but only if each piece is under six inches in diameter, four feet long, and seventy-five pounds, and the material is tied into secure bundles for pickup.
Tree trimmings, tree limbs, tree trunks and tree stumps need not be placed in a receptacle, but will not be collected if they exceed six inches in diameter or four feet in length or seventy-five pounds in weight. Such material, including brush and garden trimmings, will not be collected unless securely tied in a bundle.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 48).
Full Breakdown
180 sets the size and bundling rules for yard waste collected outside a regular container. Tree trimmings, tree limbs, tree trunks, and tree stumps do not need to go in a receptacle, but the city will not collect any piece that exceeds six inches in diameter, four feet in length, or seventy-five pounds in weight. Brush and garden trimmings fall under the same rule and, along with tree material within the size limits, will not be collected at all unless securely tied in a bundle; loose piles of clippings or branches are not eligible for pickup.
170(D)(3), which allows property owners, occupants, or licensed landscaping and tree-trimming businesses to remove and transport waste vegetation themselves as an exception to the city's exclusive hauler rule. Homeowners who generate more yard debris than the bundling limits allow, such as after a storm or a major tree removal, must arrange self-haul disposal to a transfer station or landfill, or hire a licensed contractor to remove it, rather than setting oversized material at the curb. The yard-waste standard was carried into the current code by Ordinance No. 28, which aligned Redding's organics handling with statewide diversion mandates while keeping this legacy size limit for uncontainerized brush and trimmings.
Violations & Fines
Setting out tree limbs, trunks, or brush that exceed the six-inch diameter, four-foot length, or seventy-five-pound limit, or that is not securely bundled, means the material simply will not be collected under Section 9.28.180; if it is instead left to accumulate at the curb or on the property, it can be cited separately as an accumulation violation under Section 9.28.070, enforced through the chapter's $100/$200/$500 escalating fine schedule at Section 9.28.320.
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Sources & Official References
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