GOV
Look Up Refuse, Recycling and Yard Waste Collection Days
Use the address search to find your collection day for trash, recycling, bulky items and yard waste.
Refuse Schedule Overview
Your collection service will either be on Monday and Thursday OR on Tuesday and Friday, depending on where you live and whether you have alley container service or roll cart service.
Yard waste is currently being collected weekly during the Spring, Summer and Fall months. Yard Waste Collection is discontinued during Winter months. Collection resumes the first full week in March.
Holidays impact the collection schedule. During holiday weeks, roll cart collection changes, and yard waste is not picked up. A Trash Schedule announcement is published site-wide with the trash collection details for that holiday week. To prepare ahead, view the detailed Holiday schedule for date changes.
To find your collection day for trash, recycling, bulky items and yard waste, use the address search tool below.
Residents with Alley Service
- Refuse collection is a year-round service.
- Yard Waste Collection is discontinued during Winter months. Collection resumes the first full week in March.
- In general, trash and recycling dumpsters are emptied the first collection day, yard waste is emptied the second collection day.
- Dumpsters are not emptied on holidays, routes will be adjusted to make collections during the remaining days of the week.
Residents with Roll Cart Service
- Refuse collection is a year-round service.
- Yard Waste Collection is discontinued during Winter months. Collection resumes the first full week in March.
- Regular household garbage is collected from your green cart on the first collection day of the week (Monday or Tuesday).
- Yard waste is collected from your green cart on Wednesday.
- Recycling is collected from your blue cart on the second collection day of the week (Thursday or Friday).
- During weeks with a holiday, your scheduled days will shift and there will be no yard waste collection. See the holiday schedule.
Related Services
- Dispose of Waste from Remodeling or Renovating How to dispose of remodeling or renovating debris at a City transfer station.
- Prepare for Bulk and BOAT-E (Batteries-Oil-Appliances-Tires-Electronics) Item Pick-up and Disposal Instructions and services for pick up and collections for large/bulky Items and BOAT-E items (batteries, appliances, oil Appliances, tires, Electronics)
- Prepare for Leaf Pickup and Removal Fall leaf pickup removal runs from the first Monday in November through December 31st on the regularly scheduled street sweeping days.
- Prepare for Residential Refuse Collection Tips to prepare for residential refuse collection
- Prepare for Street Cleaning Year round, the City of St. Louis offers a robust street cleaning program with 1,100 miles of roads swept monthly. Here's how to prepare.
- Prepare for Yard Waste Pickup How and when to gather your yard waste for local pickup
- Recycle Christmas Trees Christmas tree recycling is offered at Forest Park, O'Fallon Park, and Carondelet Park from December 26-January 9.
- Report A Missed Trash Collection Report a Missed Trash Collection or refuse issue
- Report a Problem With Trash, Debris and Containers Report a problem with missing, misplaced, damaged or overflowing trash containers or commercial dumpster, unsatisfactory collection, billing or collection schedules.
- Report Illegal Dumping How to report illegal dumping of any waste in the City of St. Louis.
- Report Missed Street Cleaning How to report a missed cleaning on your street
- Report Recycling Program Problems and Request Services Request information and services, or report problems related to the City of St. Louis recycling program.
- Residential Refuse Drop Off City Residents refuse dumping guidelines, hours and locations of Transfer Stations, including the types of refuse, bulk or yard waste the City will and will not accept.
- Single Stream Recycling for Residents Learn more about the City of St. Louis' single-stream recycling pick-up service, how it works, schedules and more resources.
15 comments from people like you have helped us improve this page. Keep the feedback coming!
