🗑️ Tampa Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Enter your address in My Collection Schedule. Garbage (blue carts) is collected twice per week, recycling (green carts) once weekly and yard waste once weekly. Place carts at the curb with 3 feet of clearance on all sides the night before or no later than 6:00 AM on collection day; collection may go into the evening. Remove carts by sunset on collection day and store them out of street view.

City crews collect for City of Tampa utility customers and fees are billed on the City utility bill. City pages say New Tampa residents are served by Hillsborough County Solid Waste Management, (813) 272-5680, and S.W.E.E.P. is not available there.

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 💵Cost: Annual S.W.E.E.P. pickup: no additional charge up to 10 cubic yards. Special pickup: $19.03 per cubic yard, 1 cubic yard minimum (rate sheet effective October 1, 2026), billed on the utility bill. McKay Bay drop-off: "no additional charge" for many items with an active residential account; some charges may apply.
• 📞How to book: S.W.E.E.P. (Solid Waste Enhanced Environmental Program): each eligible household (active residential solid waste account, single-family or four units or less) gets one prescheduled bulk collection per year. Use the Set Out Deadline Lookup on the S.W.E.E.P. page to find your Sunday clean-up date; items can go out no earlier than five days before and must be curbside "no later than 8 p.m. on your Sunday S.W.E.E.P. clean-up date," in one pile on the right-of-way in front of your home. Outside that date, schedule a special curbside bulky pickup by calling (813) 274-8811 or through Tampa Connect. Residents with active accounts can also drop large items at the McKay Bay Scale House.
• 📏Limits: S.W.E.E.P. piles under 10 cubic yards; larger piles may incur extra disposal fees. Up to four passenger tires; railroad ties cut to 4 feet. Not accepted: building materials, electronics, household hazardous waste, gas cylinders, metal drums, boats, and grass clippings and leaves. Yard waste (weekly): 32-gallon max reusable containers, paper bags or bundles tied with natural fiber twine, under 4 feet long, under 40 lbs, 16 inches or less in diameter; no plastic bags, including compostable plastic.

Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 7 public drop-off sites in Hillsborough County, or get a junk removal quote below.

Official bulk pickup page

🎄 Holiday Delays

FAQ: "The city holiday calendar determines our service availability" and "during holiday weeks we cannot guarantee service twice per week"; service is still guaranteed at least once per week. No holiday list is printed on the solid waste pages.

Official holiday schedule

Dump and transfer station holiday hours

🌀 Hurricanes and Storm Debris

Before storms: "store all containers and large items in a secure location." After a storm, storm debris goes at the curb in separate piles (vegetative debris, damaged household items) with 3 feet of clearance, separate from regular garbage, yard waste, recycling and S.W.E.E.P. items, not blocking the roadway or storm drains. Trees and large limbs cut into 4 ft lengths or smaller; tree stumps over 100 lbs and household hazardous waste are not accepted. The debris page currently reflects the 2024 storm season ("Clean-up will conclude on Friday, December 20, 2024").

Official storm page

💵 What Residents Pay

Copied from the city or hauler rate page. Rates usually change once a year.

🏡 New Resident? Starting Service

Not printed on the solid waste pages; contact the Customer Service Center at (813) 274-8811. Lost, damaged or stolen carts: (813) 274-8811, option 3.

Official page

♻️ Recycling

Green cart, once weekly. The accepted-items list was not read.

🚛 Drop It Off Yourself

• 📍Southeast County Landfill, Lithia · $109
• 📍Hillsborough County Resource Recovery Facility, Tampa · $148
• 📍Northwest County Solid Waste Facility, Tampa · $148
• 📍South County Solid Waste Facility, Gibsonton · $148
• 📍Hillsborough Heights Solid Waste Facility, Seffner
• 📍Alderman's Ford Solid Waste Facility, Plant City

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

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Collection Days and Times (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Trash Collection (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Solid Waste FAQs (City of Tampa)
• 🔗S.W.E.E.P. (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Yard Waste FAQs (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Solid Waste Fees document page (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Solid Waste Rates Effective October 1, 2026, PDF (City of Tampa)
• 🔗Hurricane Debris Removal (City of Tampa)

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