LA County offers free landfill vouchers for residents in the unincorporated Antelope Valley.

Palmdale, Ca.- The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force has renewed for another year its program offering landfill vouchers to residents, property owners and business tenants in the unincorporated Antelope Valley.

Beginning July 1, two vouchers are available for each household, property parcel or business. Each will pay for dumping a half ton of waste -- about a typical pickup truck load. The vouchers can be used any day local landfills are open through June 2027.

The vouchers are not available for properties or households inside Palmdale or Lancaster city limits.

Communities in the unincorporated Antelope Valley include Acton, Agua Dulce, Green Valley, Leona Valley, Desert View Highlands, Ana Verde Hills, Littlerock, Sun Village, Pearblossom, Llano, Valyermo, Juniper Hills, Lake Los Angeles, Roosevelt, Del Sur, Fairmont, Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, Three Points, Neenach, Oso, Big Pines and Antelope Acres.

Vouchers can be obtained at Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s Antelope Valley office, 42455 10th St. West, Suite 104, Lancaster.

People requesting landfill vouchers must present a photo identification card verifying their name and they must prove their residence or ownership of property or of a business that rents property in the unincorporated Antelope Valley. Owners of more than one property parcel can obtain two vouchers for each parcel.

(Vouchers for the 2025-26 program are still available, but they must be used before June 30.)

Supervisor Barger’s office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays.

The landfill voucher program started as a pilot program in late 2019 but went on hiatus starting in July 2022 for lack of funding. The program resumed in July 2023 after more funding was obtained.

The task force will review funding status periodically.

Voucher issuance will end when funding is exhausted or on June 30, 2027, if not renewed by the task force.

Here are the 2026-27 landfill vouchers program guidelines, incorporating the directions made by the Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force in its June 24 vote to extend the program.

1.            Landfill vouchers are produced, distributed and tracked by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Fifth District. Vouchers are printed on paper that displays a watermark saying "void" if duplicated, in order to hinder counterfeiting.

2.            Landfill vouchers are usable only at Waste Management’s Lancaster Landfill and Recycling Center, 600 East Ave. F, Lancaster, or its Antelope Valley Recycling & Disposal Facility, 1200 West City Ranch Road, Palmdale.

3.            Landfill vouchers will be made available to residents and owners of property in Los Angeles County unincorporated areas in the Antelope Valley: ZIP Codes 91390 (Green Valley/Agua Dulce), 92397 (Big Pines), 93510 (Acton), 93532 (Lake Hughes/Elizabeth Lake/Three Points), 93534 (central Lancaster), 93535 (east Lancaster/Roosevelt/Lake Los Angeles), 93536 (Antelope Acres/Neenach/Quartz Hill/Fairmont/west Lancaster), 93543 (Sun Village/Littlerock/Juniper Hills), 93544 (Llano), 93550 (central Palmdale), 93551 (Leona Valley/Ana Verde Hills/west Palmdale), 93552 (east Palmdale/Littlerock), 93553 (Pearblossom/Juniper Hills), 93563 (Valyermo), 93591 (Lake Los Angeles/Sun Village) and 93599 (Black Butte).

4.            Two landfill vouchers can be requested for each residence, tenant or property parcel in the designated unincorporated areas from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

5.            People requesting landfill vouchers must present a photo identification card verifying their name and prove their residence or ownership of property or a business in the unincorporated Antelope Valley during regular business hours at the Board of Supervisors Fifth District Antelope Valley office, 42455 10th St. West, Suite 104. Utility bills, property tax bills, deeds, leases, escrow papers and similar documents can be used to prove residence or ownership if the identification card doesn’t bear an Antelope Valley address.

6.            Each landfill voucher will pay for up to one-half (1/2) ton of disposal. (A typical standard, full-size pickup truck is rated to carry one-half ton or three-quarters of a ton.) Hazardous materials are not allowed.

7.            The Board of Supervisors Fifth District has discretion to determine if additional vouchers can be provided if proof of need is determined and neighborhood safety or cleanliness can be improved by providing additional vouchers.

8.            If a person other than the voucher recipient will haul the waste to the landfill, the voucher recipient must notify Waste Management at least 24 hours in advance and provide the hauler’s identity and contact information. Voucher recipients can call the Lancaster landfill scale house at 661‐726‐3461 or the Palmdale landfill scale house at (661) 223‐3431. The hauler must provide valid identification at the landfill before the voucher will be accepted by the landfill.

9.            Voucher holders must turn in vouchers at the landfill scale house before dumping.

10.         Vouchers will expire June 30, 2027.

11.         Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force will review funding status periodically. The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force may end the program at any time.

12.         Issuance of 2026-27 vouchers will end when funding is exhausted.