Galt trash pickup: cost and carts

Trash service in Galt costs about $52 a month ($624 a year) for the usual option (64-gallon trash cart); by size, service runs $45 to $81 a month. Estimated from public rates, not anyone's actual bill.

Cal-Waste. Billed by: Rate by cart size.

CartA monthA year
38-gallon trash cart$45.10$541
64-gallon trash cart$52.03$624
96-gallon trash cart$80.75$969

Rates effective March 1, 2026; each includes a 96-gallon recycling cart and a 96-gallon greenwaste cart. The 96-gallon option is one 96-gallon trash cart.

Changing your cart

To order additional carts or change cart sizes, contact the City of Galt finance department at (209) 366-7150.

How Galt compares with nearby cities

Trash, a month

  1. Elk Grove · 11 mi$37
  2. Rancho Cordova · 22 mi$41
  3. Stockton · 20 mi$49
  4. Galt$52
  5. Rio Vista · 23 mi$52
  6. Lodi · 10 mi$57

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

Sources

  1. Galt solid waste rates
  2. Galt residential solid waste services

Checked October 28, 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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