What day is trash collected in Santa Ana, CA?
Santa Ana collects on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — which of those is yours depends on the route covering your street, so check your address above for the exact day.
Santa Ana, CA
Santa Ana, CA trash pickup by address.
Enter a Santa Ana, CA street address to check trash, recycling and organics pickup as published by City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency.
Setting out in Santa Ana Set carts out with the handles turned toward your house.
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Santa Ana, CA at a glance.
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- 4 daysSanta Ana collects on four weekdays across its routes44% of cities run four
- 2Published alongside trash: recycling, organics
Verified schedule
Santa Ana collection days, read from City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency.
Trash / garbage: Wednesday.
Recycling: Wednesday.
Organics / compost: Wednesday.
The day above is an example from one Santa Ana address, last checked on September 11, 2026.
Set-out rules
Cart and set-out rules in Santa Ana.
Set carts out with the handles turned toward your house.
Carts should be placed on the curb or in your driveway, not out in the street.
When one of the major holidays is observed on a weekday, the rest of that week's collections run one day later.
Read from the official Santa Ana guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.
Your collection day
Why Santa Ana days differ by address.
Santa Ana collects on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, depending on which route covers your street. Enter your address above for the day that applies to your property.
Some Santa Ana properties are not on city collection at all — apartments, businesses and streets served by a private hauler. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.
These days are read from City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency and were last checked on August 17, 2026.
Local source
The source stays attached to the answer.
City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency publishes the collection information behind this page. TrashDayNow is independent of the city, so rely on that source for service alerts, cart standards, and missed-pickup reporting.
Good to knowPage information was last checked Sep 2026.
Common questions
Questions residents ask.
Why does my Santa Ana address show no collection day?
Santa Ana runs city collection for most homes, and we tell you when yours is not one of them. Apartments, commercial sites and some streets are served by a private hauler under contract instead, and for those the day comes from your hauler rather than the city — we say so rather than showing a day that is not yours.
Which collections are published for Santa Ana?
City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency publishes trash, recycling and organics for Santa Ana.
Local source
Verify with City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency.
The Santa Ana address result links City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency directly.
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- Sep 2026
Collection services in Santa Ana
- trash
- recycling
- organics
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