Costa Mesa, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Tuesday.

Tuesday is what one Costa Mesa address returned on October 26, 2026.

Carts may go out no earlier than 5 p.m. the evening before and must be at the curb by 7 a.m. on collection day.

The District runs no routes at all on its observed holidays, and every remaining pickup that week is pushed back by one day.

Carts can go out at the curb or in the alley no earlier than 5 p.m. the evening before collection.

Each cart should sit with its wheels and handle turned toward the residence.

Stand the carts side by side about one foot apart, and at least three feet from parked cars, a fire hydrant or a bicycle.

Read from the official Costa Mesa guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Costa Mesa depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

Some Costa Mesa addresses have no collection day in the source this lookup reads. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.

The example days above are read from Costa Mesa Sanitary District and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Costa Mesa follows the most common pattern: collection slides a day after a holiday. The Costa Mesa Sanitary District's published rule: The District runs no routes at all on its observed holidays, and every remaining pickup that week is pushed back by one day.

The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the Costa Mesa Sanitary District's published schedule means for each of those weeks.

Collection routes in Costa Mesa are published as a map (Costa Mesa Sanitary District (CMSD)): each route area carries a fixed weekday for trash; the lookup reads that area for your address.

We last checked Costa Mesa on August 17, 2026: 10 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Costa Mesa's pickup days.

Costa Mesa Sanitary District publishes trash days for Costa Mesa; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Costa Mesa Sanitary District, not here.

The nearest guides to Costa Mesa are Fountain Valley, Newport Beach, Irvine and Huntington Beach. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.