New Multi-Family Bulky Item Pick-Up Pilot Program

Multi-family complexes 3 and 19 units can participate in a new pilot program for the curbside collection of household bulky items. Participation in this program is on a first-come first-served basis. Interested residents are recommended to contact their building owner or manager to schedule a pick-up. Collections may be scheduled for individual units, or combined to serve multiple units on the same day.

Program Guidelines:

• Program services multi-family dwellings with 3-19 units
• Property manager or owner must complete a participation form and call (510) 262-7100 to schedule a collection
• Two items per collection per apartment unit per year at no cost
• May substitute five E-waste items for one bulky item
• No commercial-sized appliances, hazardous materials, or construction and demolition materials

Single-Family/Duplex Bulky Item Pick-Up

Richmond residents can receive two on-call curbside cleanups per calendar year:

1. Up to three (3) eligible bulky items which can include up to five (5) E-waste as one (1) bulky item  

2. Up to fifteen (15) 35-gallon bags of non-hazardous residential household trash, or ALL yard wastes only 

Please contact Republic Services, (510) 262- 7100, at least one week in advance to reserve your Clean-up day. Collection services are provided by Republic Services at no additional cost. Due to space limitations of our waste collection vehicles, Clean-up day scheduling will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

1. Bulky Item Service 

Program Guidelines:   

• Single-family residences and duplexes only.
• Up to 3 household bulky items per clean-up.
• Up to 5 e-waste (electronic waste) items such as computer monitors, microwaves, computers, or similar sized E-waste items can substitute for one bulky item per clean-up.
• A Holiday Tree can be substituted for one bulky item
• Residential household items only.
• Individual items of 200 pounds or less.
• No commercial-sized appliances, household hazardous waste, toxic, explosive, infectious, construction or demolition waste

Regularly accepted bulky items include:

• Appliances such as a washing machine, clothes dryer, dishwasher, stove, refrigerator, freezer, microwaves;
• Mattress & box springs (a matched set of mattress and box springs count as one item);
• Furniture such as a sofa, love seat, large chair, televisions, dining set, desks, dressers, tables or lawn furniture (a dining or lawn furniture set of table and chairs counts as one time); 
• Equally sized residential items such as a water heater, barbecue, area rug, office chair, bookshelf, exercise equipment or four tires (four tires count as one item).

2. Bagged Item Service

Program Guidelines:

• Maximum pick-up of 15 bags of all garbage or all green waste.
• Keep the load limited to fifteen 30-35 gallon bags (2 cubic yards total), each under 40 pounds, and strong enough to hold materials.
• Ensure there are no large or bulky items in the load.
• Trash Clean-ups are collected on the customer's regular Solid Waste collection day; All Yard Waste Clean-ups are collected on the regular green waste collection day. 
• Compostable paper bags must be used for all Yard Waste Clean-ups  (biodegradable bags are not compostable)

Items that will not be accepted for Bagged On-Call Clean-ups:

• Car parts
• Boxed/ bundled debris
• Cement, rocks, dirt
• Fencing
• Glass
• Household Hazardous Waste
• Metal parts
• Tied boards                      
• Tree stumps