Manhattan Beach Waste Collection Rates Going Up
May 26, 2025 09:27PM ● By Jeanne Fratello
Manhattan Beach residents will see their waste collection rates going up by about 7%, starting on July 1.
Property owners and rate payers had a chance to protest the increase between March 18 and May 20. It would have taken more than 5,500 registered letters of protest to stop the increase, but the city only received a total of 93.
The average Manhattan Beach residential customer has a 65-gallon trash cart. For those carts, the monthly rate will increase from $23.06 to $24.65. Those with 20 and 30 gallon trash carts will see their rates go from $17.76 to $18.98. (There is no additional charge for the recycling and green waste containers.)
The new rates will appear in the August 2025 bill and will appear to be double this amount, because residents are billed for two months at a time.Multi-family cart rates will increase from a range of $41.51-$83.01 to $44.37-$88.75, depending on the size of the cart.
Commercial trash cart rates will increase from a range of $34.21-$95.28, to $35.60-$104.61, depending on the size of the cart.
Commercial recycling cart rates will increase from a range of $16.20-$47.64 to $17.79-$52.31, depending on the size of the cart.
