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Emeryville trash pickup: cost and carts

Trash service in Emeryville costs about $27 a month ($322 a year) for the usual option (32-gal trash); by size, service runs $16 to $81 a month. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Waste Management (WM). Billed by: WM bills monthly rates by cart size, effective January 1, 2026, including franchise fees.

Pay or manage it

CartA monthA year
20-gal trash$16.22$195
32-gal trash$26.87$322
64-gal trash$53.72$645
96-gal trash$80.56$967

The price is set by the size of your trash cart (curbside collection). Rates include franchise fees.

How Emeryville compares with nearby cities

Trash, a month

  1. Emeryville$27
  2. Alameda · 7 mi$53
  3. Oakland · 6 mi$65
  4. Berkeley · 2 mi$68
  5. Albany · 4 mi$68
  6. El Cerrito · 6 mi$76

The standard cart in each city. Cities that pay for trash through property tax are not listed.

Ways to pay less

  • Low-income households: 12.5% off trash. WM's Emeryville rate sheet lists a 12.5% low-income discount on residential trash rates, for example $23.51 instead of $26.87 for a 32-gallon cart. How: See WM's Emeryville rate sheet for the low-income rate.

Sources

  1. www.wm.com trash-pickup-emeryville-ca

Checked October 29, 2026. Every number here comes from the public sources listed, matched by our checker.

Rates change every year; this page shows when it was last checked. Nothing here is legal, tax or insurance advice.

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