Residential Services

Residential Services Include:

• Curbside cart services
• A monthly request for bulky waste pickups
• Yearly District Cleanups
• Free drop-off events
• Bulky & Brush drop-offs at Cobbs Recycling Center and the Landfill
• A one-time collection request of moving boxes
• Free download of our Waco Curbside Services App

Solid Waste District Clean-Ups provide the opportunity for Waco Residential Customers to place unwanted bulky waste and brush at the curb during their district’s Saturday clean–up date.

All items must be at the curb by 7 a.m. the day of the pick–up.

• District 3 — Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024
• District 4 — Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024
• District 5 — Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
• District 1 — Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025
• District 2 — Saturday, Mar. 8, 2025

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Items that will be picked up:

• Bagged or boxed waste
• Unusable furniture, mattresses, box springs, toys, swing sets, misc. junk
• Un-repairable items (i.e. bicycles, BBQ grills)
• Bagged grass, leaves, plant trimmings, brush piles (8' x 8' x 8')

Items that will not be picked up:

• Aerosol cans
• Antifreeze
• Basketball goals
• Construction project debris (i.e. fencing, bricks, tiles, rocks, sand, dirt, roofing materials)
• Food waste
• Gasoline/Oil/Transmission fluid
• Tires
• Hazardous waste items that contained Freon (i.e. freezers, refrigerators, air conditioners)
• Liquids
• Paint & paint-related materials
• Pesticides
• Pool chemicals
• Pressurized tanks (i.e. propane, oxygen, helium)
• Tree stumps

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Grey Waste Cart Guidelines

• No: hot ashes, dirt, rocks, concrete, chemicals, nor batteries.
• All waste must be bagged & tied within the gray cart and lid must be completely closed.
• Overstuffed carts will not be picked up.
• Bags left outside the cart will not be picked up.

Blue Recycling Cart Guidelines

• All recycling must be in your blue cart, un-bagged.
• Items should be empty, clean, and dry.
• The lid must be completely closed.
• Cardboard left outside the cart will not be picked up (except for the one-time pick up of move-in boxes).
• Collections occur every other week, alternating with Green weeks, on your scheduled trash collection day.

Items that can be recycled:

• #1 & #2 Plastics
• Mixed paper (newspaper, magazines, junk mail, phone books, etc.)
• Clean Cardboard (No Pizza boxes that contain grease)
• Aluminum, tin, and steel cans

#1 & #2 Plastics

Mixed paper & Cardboard

Aluminum, steel, tin cans

Unacceptable Items:

• Plastic Bags
• Glass Bottles
• Milk/Juice Coated Paper Cartons
• Styrofoam
• Aluminum Sheets or pie pans
• Textiles (cloths)

No Plastic Bags

Glass

Milk and Juice Cartons

Styrofoam

Aluminum sheets

Textiles

Green Yard Waste Cart Guidelines

• Grass, smalls sticks, and leaves.
• No: rocks, lumber, dirt, plastic bags, trash, nor dead animals.
• Green carts, brush, and bagged leaves are collected bi-weekly on your scheduled trash day, alternating with Recycling weeks.
• Up to twenty paper bags can be collected.

Yard waste, brush, and bagged leaves are collected separately from garbage. This organic waste is ground down and used as a road base when it rains- instead of depositing in the landfill and wasting valuable resources.

Apartments & Multi-Housing Garbage Services

• Dumpster size and quantity needed is determined by the number of units.
• Units that have an individual water/trash account will receive the same benefits as household residents.
• Bulky Items, such as furniture, must be placed in a designated area to be serviced weekly, by request only.
  • Combined items cannot exceed 5ft tall x 8ft wide x 16.5ft long.
  • Items must be placed in an accessible location, not behind dumpsters.
• Please contact customer service for more information. 

Each household that receives curbside collection services, can have one bulky waste pile picked up per month, by customer request only.

Overall size of items to be collected

• Pile is limited to 6ft long x 6ft wide x 6ft tall
• There is an extra charge for piles larger than 6ft x 6ft x 6ft
• No appliances containing freon
• No construction materials
• Bulk waste city ordinance.

Request a Bulky Waste Collection

When to put items at the curb

• Place bulky items at the curb, then request your bulky waste collection. Crews will evaluate pickup and collect the items listed if the pile meets the requirement.
• If the pile exceeds the 6ft x 6ft x 6ft limit, the household will be notified with the estimated fee.
• After crews have collected items on a street, do not place more bulky items on the curb until the following month.

Where to place bulk items

• A bulk pile must be at least 5ft away from trees, mailboxes, water meters, fences and other obstructions or it will not be collected.
• A bulk pile located under trees or where tree branches block access will not be collected.
• Any items that will fit in your Grey Waste Cart are not bulk and should be put in plastic bags and placed in your Grey Waste Cart.

Separate bulk trash and bulk brush

• Create separate piles for household bulk waste and bulk brush.
• There should be a minimum of 2ft between the piles.
• Bulk waste goes to the landfill. Bulk brush gets processed and turned into mulch.

Brush and Limbs

• Residents are allowed one brush pile pick-up, twice per month, with their green carts.
• One brush pile limited to 4ftx 4ftx 4ft will be collected. (Larger piles will not be collected.)
• No limbs larger than 3 inches in diameter or stumps will be collected.
• Please do not tie your limbs.
• Please do not place your brush over your water meter.
• Brush at curbside should only include brush generated by residents at that address.
• Residents do not need to call to request brush collections.

Bagged Leaves

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• Must be placed in paper bags or placed in the Green Yard Waste Cart for collections.
• No more than 20 paper Bags will be collected at the curb during Green weeks.
• Paper bags will be the responsibility of the resident.
• Paper yard waste bags are available for purchase at retail stores (Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart).
• Do not put any other trash in the same paper bag.

Issues caused by illegal dumping:

• reduces the beauty of our community
• is a fire hazard
• contaminates our lakes and rivers
• puts wildlife at risk

Report Illegal Dumping

The Waco Solid Waste Department works in partnership with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Department through the funding of deputies to enforce illegal dumping laws throughout Waco and the County.

The Waco Solid Waste Department will continue its successful partnerships with community leadership organizations such as Keep Waco Beautiful and Waco's Neighborhood Associations to organize special clean-up events, such as the Brazos River Clean-Up, Neighborhood Clean-ups, Baylor Steppin’ Out Clean-Up events, and Earth Day celebrations.

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• A one-time pickup of move-in cardboard boxes is available to residents with a new water bill address.
• Service must be requested by contacting us within two months of establishing a new account and is performed on the next scheduled Blue Recycling collection day.
• Boxes (ten or more) must be flattened, stacked, and placed curbside by 7 a.m.
• Up to six boxes may be filled with paper wrappings.
• Note: service is not for multi-family residences with dumpster service.

Request Move-in Cardboard Boxes Collection