🗑️ Fort Lauderdale Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Find your pickup days on the City's MyGovernmentServices map or call the 24-hour Neighbor Support Center at 954-828-8000. Trash is collected twice a week, recycling once a week, yard waste once a week and bulk trash once a month on set neighborhood days. Set carts out by 7:00 AM on pickup day and no earlier than 6:00 PM the night before; remove them the same day. Keep carts at least 2 feet from other carts, cars, mailboxes, trees, storm drains and utility poles, and never in bike lanes. Collections run 7 am to 7 pm.

The City page says WM became the City's environmental services provider on July 31, 2023, collecting trash, recycling, yard waste and bulk trash. City residential service covers single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes; apartment, condo and commercial properties must contract directly with a licensed private hauler. Sanitation charges are billed by the City (Utility Billing).

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 💵Cost: No charge is printed for a regular monthly bulk pile. For larger special pickups, "WM staff will measure the trash pile to determine the cubic yardage and price." "Service is provided once payment is received." No dollar amount is printed.
• 📞How to book: Bulk trash is picked up once a month on specific days for each neighborhood (check the MyGovernmentServices map or call 954-828-8000). Place bulk at the curb by 7 a.m. on pickup day and no earlier than 24 hours in advance; items left out more than 24 hours before or after pickup could result in a City citation. Keep piles away from parked cars, fences, trees, power lines and storm drains. Single-family and multifamily accounts of three units or less are entitled to residential bulk service.
• 📏Limits: "Items must be in a pile no larger than 10 cubic yards" (about 6 feet wide, 15 feet long and 3 feet high). Doors, sinks, toilets limited to two of each; rims and/or tires limited to four of each; wood fence limited to four sections; chain link fence limited to a 50-foot roll; hot tubs cut into 6-foot sections. Tree limbs up to 12 feet long and 12 inches in diameter; leaves bagged in a separate pile. Glass only in a rigid container. Construction debris is not accepted. Curbside tires: up to two passenger or light truck tires (up to 20 inches) beside the black cart on garbage day, up to four per household per year.

Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 4 public drop-off sites in Broward County, or get a junk removal quote below.

Official bulk pickup page

🎄 Holiday Delays

The City FAQ says regular collections occur on all holidays except Christmas Day. For Christmas Day (Thu., Dec. 25, 2025) the page printed: no make-up day for garbage; recycling and yard waste on Sun., Dec. 28, 2025; bulk on Mon., Dec. 29, 2025. Thanksgiving (Nov. 27, 2025) and New Year's Day (Jan. 1, 2026): no interruption. These are last season's dates; 2026 dates were not yet posted on the page checked. Holidays named: Christmas Day.

Official holiday schedule

Dump and transfer station holiday hours

🌀 Hurricanes and Storm Debris

"All sanitation services are suspended when a Hurricane Warning is issued" and during a storm. "Do not put out bulk trash or yard waste when a Hurricane Watch or Warning has been issued." Before the season, remove dead trees, limbs, palm fronds and dead coconuts. After a storm, keep household garbage, recycling, yard waste and construction storm debris in separate piles; stage storm debris loose (not bagged) by type along the right-of-way, away from fences, mailboxes, poles, transformers, water meters, fire hydrants and storm drains; empty appliances. Emergency collection of storm debris occurs "within 70 hours after the storm allowing for emergency access." Crews will not enter private property. Hurricane Emergency Hotline: 954-828-8888.

Official storm page

🏡 New Resident? Starting Service

Not found on the pages checked; call the Neighbor Support Center at 954-828-8000 (also listed for sanitation cart service).

♻️ Recycling

Blue cart, once a week, not bagged: paper, glass containers, plastic containers #1-7, metal cans, cardboard, and hot and cold paper beverage cups. Curbside electronics pickup can be scheduled by 4 PM the day before your recycling day (online form or 954-828-8000).

🚛 Drop It Off Yourself

• 📍Broward County Landfill, Unincorporated Broward County · $10
• 📍Broward County North Drop-Off Center, Pompano Beach
• 📍Broward County South Drop-Off Center, West Park
• 📍Broward County Central Drop-Off Center, Davie

All drop-off sites, fees and hours in Broward County

Rates are not shown here because the city's rate sheet does not print the billing period or the date each year's rate starts. See the official rate sheet in the sources below.

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Collection Programs (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗Residential Garbage Collection (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗Bulk Trash Pickup brochure, PDF (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗New Utility Rates (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗Sanitation Rates FY2025-FY2030, PDF (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗Sanitation Service Tips, Hurricane Preparedness (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗Debris Collections Following a Hurricane or Storm (City of Fort Lauderdale)
• 🔗MyGovernmentServices map (City of Fort Lauderdale)

Checked October 31, 2026. Trash rules and rates change; the official pages above are the final word. See something out of date? Tell us.