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City Trash and Recycling aims to provide comprehensive, modern services to City residents and businesses while ensuring stability in our rates. Check out our Rates Page for more information.

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Calculating Your Bill

There are several ways to calculate your trash and recycling bill, and to figure out how changing services will affect your bill.

  • Rate Tables: Open the current rate table (PDF) - scroll to the third page. Its shows the costs for each waste container based on the number of days of pickup.
  • Online Bill Calculator: Use the bill calculator to calculate your current bill and what you would pay if you made adjustments.
  • Talk to Us: Call a City Recycling Specialist at 805-564-5627 to discuss your options.

There are five easy ways to pay!
Please visit our City Utility Billing & Customer Service page for details.

Recycling, Foodscraps, and Greenwaste are 50% Cost of Trash

Starting July 1, 2013 the City of Santa Barbara began operating under a new contract for trash and recycling services negotiated with MarBorg Industries. Under the contract, all recycling services -- blue bin, green bin, and yellow bin– are 50% the cost of trash service. Business customers have access to trash, recycling, greenwaste and foodscraps service. A wide variety of different container sizes and collection frequencies are offered to meet the specific needs of Business customers. For detailed information on all services available to residential and business customers, please visit the links below: