Santa Monica, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Wednesday.

Recycling: Wednesday.

Wednesday is what one Santa Monica address returned on October 26, 2026.

Containers may go out no earlier than 4:00 p.m. the day before collection and no later than 7:00 a.m. on collection day.

Containers must be removed from the street or alley by 8:00 p.m. on the day of collection.

Set containers with the lid facing the street and the handles pointing toward your home.

Leave at least two feet between each container and other objects such as vehicles, poles, walls, trees, street signs and garage doors.

Read from the official Santa Monica guidance on August 23, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Santa Monica depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

The example days above are read from City of Santa Monica Resource Recovery and Recycling and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Santa Monica publishes its own address-level collection lookup, City of Santa Monica Resource Recovery and Recycling. There is no single citywide weekday: the day depends on the address, and the lookup above reads City of Santa Monica Resource Recovery and Recycling's answer for the exact address you enter.

We last checked Santa Monica on August 17, 2026: 6 of 6 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 Santa Monica's pickup days.

City of Santa Monica Resource Recovery and Recycling publishes trash and recycling days for Santa Monica; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Santa Monica Resource Recovery and Recycling, not here.

The nearest guides to Santa Monica are Culver City, Inglewood, Hawthorne and Redondo Beach. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.