San Diego Approved Its Controversial Trash Fee: What's Next?

San Diego approved its controversial trash fee: What's next?

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego City Council approved a controversial trash collection fee earlier this week after a protest vote failed to thwart it from going into effect. Now, beginning on July 1, more than 200,000 homeowners will have to pay anywhere from $32.82 to $43.60 per month for services that historically have been free of charge — that is barring intervention by a state court as part of an ongoing lawsuit. San Diego officials …

San Diego Council Approves Controversial Trash Fee Amid Budget Crunch

SAN DIEGO—Following a lengthy, boisterous meeting, the San Diego City Council on June 9 passed a solid-waste fee, breaking a 106-year-old precedent of the city not charging single-family homeowners a fee for trash pickup. Starting July 1, homeowners in the city will be charged $42.76 a month for three 95-gallon cans—one for trash, one for recycling, and one for organics such as yard waste or food scraps—regardless of how much waste they produce.…

TRASH FEE APPROVED: Garbage collection now comes at a cost in City of SD

Customers would see a first-year fee of $523.20 (which breaks down to $43.60 per month) for a standard 95-gallon trash bin.

San Diego City Council passes controversial new trash collection fee

The images of cars set ablaze, protesters tossing rocks at police and officers firing nonlethal rounds and tear gas at protesters hearkens back to the last time a president sent the National Guard to respond to violence on Los Angeles streets. But the unrest during several days of protests over immigration enforcement is far different in scale from the 1992 riots that followed the acquittal of white police officers who were videotaped beating Bl…

Mystery $175K City Job Has Never Appeared in San Diego Budget

By Greg Moran / inewsource / June 5, 2025 They were four hours in at a San Diego City Council budget review meeting when the discussion got around to the mystery worker of the Environmental Services department. “In regards to Clean SD,” Councilmember Henry Foster III began, a note of exasperation in his voice. He was referring to the program within the department that cleans sidewalks, picks up piles of trash that were illegally dumped, cleans u…