{"id":17617,"date":"2025-10-22T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:02:09","slug":"city-council-approves-trash-fee-hike-for-los-angeles-residents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17617\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council approves trash fee hike for Los Angeles residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/people\/makenna-sievertson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Makenna Sievertson<\/a> for LAist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/city-council-approves-trash-fee-hike-for-los-angeles-residents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Originally published\u00a0on Oct. 21, 2025 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles City Council has approved a plan to raise trash fees \u2014 nearly doubling them for some ratepayers \u2014 the first hike for Angelenos in 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters:\u00a0Single-family homes will climb from the current $36.32 to $55.95 per month, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cityclerk.lacity.org\/onlinedocs\/2023\/23-0600-S9_ord_188750_11-21-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ordinance<\/a>, increasing to $65.93 by July 2029. Multi-family homes, with three to four units, will jump from $24.33 to $55.95 a month.<\/p>\n<p>How the council voted:\u00a0The ordinance was broken into three parts focused on bulky items and extra-capacity collection, as well as single- and multi-family homes. Two parts were passed previously, but the extra-capacity collection also required a second vote.<\/p>\n<p>The council voted 12-1 on Tuesday to approve the increase.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Monica Rodriguez voted against it, and Councilmember Curren Price was absent, as was Councilmember Adrin Nazarian, who voted against the proposal when it came up for consideration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1EwR2xpqUsQ&amp;t=3712s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What officials say:\u00a0Barbara Romero, general manager of L.A. Sanitation and Environment, said the department cannot delay a rate increase any longer \u201cwithout running the risk of not being able to provide critical services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last five years alone, we have experienced significant cost increases due to the regulatory compliance with unfunded state mandates, the collapse of world recycling markets and increases in landfill cost, equipment and facility and maintenance costs,\u201d she said during an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hqN7fB_lmko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">August informational webinar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next:\u00a0The trash fee increases for bulky items, as well as single- and multi-family homes, will go into effect Nov. 21, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cityclerk.lacity.org\/lacityclerkconnect\/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&amp;cfnumber=23-0600-S9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">city clerk records<\/a>. The proposed increase for extra-capacity collection, which was voted on again Tuesday, heads to Mayor Karen Bass for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>This report is reprinted with permission from Southern California Public Radio. \u00a9 2024 Southern California Public Radio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Makenna Sievertson for LAist Originally published\u00a0on Oct. 21, 2025 The Los Angeles City Council has approved a plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,5810,52,51,47,50,49,15054],"class_list":{"0":"post-17617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-city-council","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-trash-pickup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}