Residential Services
Curbside Cart Placement
Curbside trash, recycling and yard waste pickup are great City of Waco services! If you’ve got a gray bin, a blue bin or a green bin, get the most out of your curbside pickup every week.
When it’s your pickup day, set your carts at the curb by 7 a.m. Put a three-foot gap between your carts and any obstruction (like mailboxes and cars) and a three-foot gap between the carts at your curb. Place the carts so the handle faces your house. This helps our operators pick up the carts quickly and safely.
Residential services include weekly trash pickup, bi-weekly recycle pickup, bi-weekly yard waste pickup, monthly bulky waste pickup and more!
Trash Pickup
Services
Gray trash carts are picked up every week on your designated day.
Be sure to bag and tie your trash every week to help keep our streets and waterways clean!
Guidelines
- Place household trash in your gray cart every week on your designated day.
- All waste must fit in the cart with the lid completely closed.
- Bags and other items outside the cart will not be picked up.
Acceptable Items
Bagged and tied household trash
Unacceptable Items
- Hot ashes
- Dirt
- Rocks
- Concrete
- Chemicals
- Batteries
Fees
Fees effective October 1, 2024
Residential Fee
- Monthly curbside cart collection fees start at $20.52.
- Fee includes: 1 (95-gallon) gray waste cart, up to 2 (95-gallon) blue recycling carts and up to 2 (95-gallon) green waste carts.
- Gray waste carts are collected weekly.
Additional Carts
Additional carts are available upon request at $9.28 each, per month.
Animal Services
- Small animal 35 lbs or less $45
- Medium animal 36 lbs - 75 lbs $75
- Large animal over 75 lbs $150
Penalties ($20 per event)
- Carts left at curb
- Overfilled carts
- Waste outside of cart
- Unbagged trash in cart
- Use of non-city cart
Customers will receive a warning letter with educational information if penalties are assessed.
Recycling Pickup
Services
Blue recycle carts are picked up every other week on your designated day. Sign up for app notifications to get reminders!
Don't bag items in your blue cart, and only recycle clean items. Give them a rinse!
Guidelines
- Don't bag items in your blue cart.
- Items should be clean, empty and dry.
- Be sure you can completely close the lid.
- Items left outside the cart will not be picked up.
Acceptable Items
- #1 & #2 Plastics (plastic soda and water bottles, detergent and cleaner bottles, and more)
- Paper (newspaper, magazines, junk mail, etc.)
- Clean cardboard (no greasy food containers)
- Aluminum, tin and steel cans
Unacceptable Items
Fees
Fees effective October 1, 2024
Residential Fee
- Monthly curbside cart collection fees start at $20.52.
- Fee includes: 1 (95-gallon) gray waste cart, up to 2 (95-gallon) blue recycling carts and up to 2 (95-gallon) green waste carts.
- Blue recycling carts are collected every other week.
Additional Carts
Your service includes two recycling carts, but if you need an additional cart, they are available upon request for $9.28
Penalties ($20 per event)
- Carts left at curb
- Overfilled carts
- Waste outside of cart
- Use of non-city cart
Customers will receive a warning letter with educational information if penalties are assessed.
Yard Waste Pickup
Services
Green yard waste carts are picked up every other week on your designated day. The pickup weeks alternate with recycling weeks, so sign up for notifications in the app to get reminders of which carts to put out.
You can bag up to twenty bags of leaves in addition to your cart or create a brush pile no larger than 4'x4'x4' to get picked up curbside.
Yard waste is ground down for use as road base at the landfill when it rains.
Guidelines
- Be sure brush and yard waste fits in your cart with the lid closed.
- Up to 20 paper bags of brush can be collected along with your cart.
Acceptable Items in Cart and Paper Bags
- Grass
- Small sticks
- Leaves
Bagged Leaf Guidelines
- Place in paper bags or green cart
- No more than 20 bags will be collected at a time
- No other trash should be in the paper bags
Paper yard waste bags should be purchased by the resident. They are available at retail stores, including Lowe's, Home Depot and Wal-Mart.
Brush Pile Guidelines
You don't need to call and schedule a brush pile pickup. It's included with your residential services. Be sure to follow these guidelines, so your brush pile doesn't get left behind!
- One brush pile will be picked up at a time.
- Brush pile size is limited to 4'x4'x4'.
- No limbs larger than 3" in diameter will not be collected.
- Stumps will not be collected.
- Do not tie your brush pile.
- Do not cover your water meter with the brush pile.
Fees
Fees effective October 1, 2024
Residential Fee
- Monthly curbside cart collection fees start at $20.52.
- Fee includes: 1 (95-gallon) gray waste cart, up to 2 (95-gallon) blue recycling carts and up to 2 (95-gallon) green waste carts.
- Green yard waste carts are collected every other week.
Additional Carts
Additional carts are available upon request for $9.28.
Penalties ($20 per event)
- Carts left at curb
- Overfilled carts
- Use of non-city cart
Customers will receive a warning letter with educational information if penalties are assessed.
Other Services
Multi-Unit Housing Services
Contact Solid Waste Customer Service for information about garbage services for multi-unit housing.
- Dumpster size and quantity are determined by number of units.
- Units that have an individual water/trash account should refer to residential services (above) to see benefits.
- Bulky items, such as furniture, must be placed in a designated area to be serviced weekly, by request only.
- Combined items cannot exceed 5 ft tall x 8 ft wide x 16.5 ft long.
- Items must be placed in an accessible location, not behind dumpsters
Bulky Waste Pickup
If you have curbside pickup services, you get one bulky waste pickup every month! You have to request the pickup, but there is no additional charge.
Overall size of items to be collected:
View the Bulky Waste City Ordinance.
Requesting a Bulky Waste Pickup
- Place bulky items at the curb.
- Place items at least 5 ft away from trees, mailboxes, water meters, fences and other obstructions.
- Don't place items under trees or branches that block access.
- If items will fit in your gray cart, bag and tie for regular trash pickup.
- Request your bulky waste pickup.
- Crews will evaluate the items and collect them if they meet the requirements.
If the pile does not meet the requirements, the household will be notified with the estimated fee.
Create separate piles for bulk waste and brush waste. There should be a minimum of 2 ft between the piles.
Request a Bulky Waste Pickup
Move-In Cardboard Box Pickup
When you set up a new water bill account, you can get a one-time pickup of cardboard boxes.
- Request service within two months of establishing the new account.
- The pickup will happen on your next scheduled Recycling Pickup day.
- Boxes must be flattened, stacked and placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on the pickup day.
- Up to six boxes may be filled with paper wrapping materials.
This service is not available for multi-family residences with dumpster services.
Request Move-In Cardboard Box Pickup