The City of Santa Monica’s Solid Waste Management Division provides refuse and recycling services to residential customers. Container sizes available for refuse collection to single-family homes and multi-family residences are: 68, 95, and 300-gallon containers. The fees vary according to the frequency of service and the number and size of containers that are being serviced. The standard single-family residential service level for refuse is once weekly.

For more information, please contact the Solid Waste Management Division at (310) 458-2223, Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You may also leave a message after hours and on weekends, and your call will be returned on the next business day.

OVERFLOW
If you have excess trash (household waste that exceeds your 95-gallon container), you may purchase five 40-gallon plastic bags from the Solid Waste Division for $17.60. Place excess trash into the bag, securely fasten bag and place next to trash container. Collection employees will identify city bags and collect them on your regularly scheduled collection day.

CURBSIDE COLLECTION INSTRUCTIONS
Containers (refuse, yard/green waste and recycling) should be placed on the street or in the alley on your scheduled collection day with the lid facing the street and handles pointing toward your home. Containers should be placed at least two feet from other collection containers and objects such as vehicles, poles, walls, trees, street signs and garage doors.

Refuse, yard waste, recycling containers and/or plastic bags for excess refuse must be placed at curbside or in the alley for collection no earlier than 4 p.m. on the day before your scheduled collection and no later than 7 a.m. on the day of your collection. Containers must be removed by 8 p.m. on the day of collection.

Solid Waste observes the following holidays and there is no refuse, recycling or yard/green waste collection: New Year’s Day (January 1), Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday (the third Monday in January), Presidents’ Day (the third Monday in February), Memorial Day (the last Monday in May), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (the first Monday in September), Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday in November), and Christmas Day (December 25).

Residential refuse, which would normally be picked up on a day that falls on a holiday, will be collected on the following day, and for the remainder of the week, all refuse collection will be one day later than the regular schedule. For instance, if a holiday falls on a Monday, Monday routes will be collected on Tuesday, in turn Tuesday routes will be collected on Wednesday, and so on. Friday routes will be collected on the Saturday.