🗑️ West Palm Beach Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Use the City's Pickup Schedule lookup for trash, recycling and bulk/yard days; pickups run Monday through Saturday. The City's FY 2025/2026 fee schedule describes single-family service as "Trash Pick Up 2x per week and Yard/Bulk 1x per week" and "Recycling Pick up 1 x per week." Place your can curbside the night before collection day but no earlier than 6 p.m., front facing the street, at least ten feet from yard trash, poles and mailboxes. Yard waste and bulk go out no earlier than one day before pickup.

The City collects yard waste and bulk items from single-family homes and bills sanitation fees. For recycling, the City page says "Bins are provided through Solid Waste Authority and picked up by Waste Pro." Inference: City crews also collect household garbage (the City handles garbage carts and missed pickups), but no page checked states who drives the garbage routes.

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 💵Cost: Up to 3 items weekly: no separate charge printed (covered by the monthly fee). Special pickups: $ 150.00 trip fee plus SWA landfill fee (FY 2025/2026 schedule). Vegetation piles over 10 cubic yards "will be subject to a fee" (amount not printed). Contractor yard waste: property owner may be assessed up to $350.
• 📞How to book: Up to 3 bulk items can go at the curb on your weekly bulk pickup day. For more than 3, schedule a special pickup for a fee by emailing [email protected] or calling (561) 822-2075. Accepted: tables, chairs, gym equipment, household items, mattresses and box springs, large toys, grills, sofas and appliances. Remove appliance doors and tape glass doors; Freon appliances go out alone on your vegetation day. Moving boxes: one-time courtesy collection within 30 days of moving in if you call ahead (empty, broken down and tied).
• 📏Limits: Bulk: 3 items per week. Yard waste: one pile up to 10 cubic yards (18' long x 4' wide x 4' high), in front of the home, at least 10 feet from walls, fences, trees, vehicles; branches no longer than 4 feet and no more than 6 inches in diameter; stumps no more than 12 inches in diameter; bag clippings, grass and leaves. Not accepted: building materials, commercial waste, propane or water tanks and drums, vehicle parts, wood fencing, decks, concrete and hazardous materials.

Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 8 public drop-off sites in Palm Beach County, or get a junk removal quote below.

Official bulk pickup page

🎄 Holiday Delays

"No service = Service will resume on your next scheduled service day." "One day delay = Service will be delayed by one day for the remainder of the week." Residential trash: no service on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Recycling: no service on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bulk/yard: one day delay on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas. All other listed holidays (MLK, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve) are on schedule. The table is undated. Holidays named: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas.

Official holiday schedule

Dump and transfer station holiday hours

🌀 Hurricanes and Storm Debris

Before the season, cut back weak branches and set trimmings out on your regular day. "Once a HURRICANE WATCH or WARNING is issued, do not trim any vegetation" and "Do not place materials at the curb during a WATCH or WARNING period." The FY 2025/2026 fee schedule lists $ 600.00 per offense for bulk or vegetation placed out after a hurricane watch or warning. Services may be suspended early before a storm. After the storm, keep garbage, recycling, vegetation and storm debris separate; bag garbage in your cart; keep debris away from fences, mailboxes, power equipment, poles, hydrants, meters and storm drains. No reimbursement for residents or HOAs who hire private debris contractors. Each spring the City holds Vegetation Amnesty (unlimited curbside vegetation at no charge on your yard day; 2026 dates were "from April 27 to May 8, 2026"; branches and trunks cut to 4 feet or less, stumps no larger than 12 inches in diameter, one pile, no mixing; not for commercial properties or landscape contractors).

Official storm page

🏡 New Resident? Starting Service

Request garbage carts by online service request or Customer Service (561) 822-2075. Carts stay with the address; when moving, request a can for the new address. Recycling bins are requested from the Solid Waste Authority at no charge to City residents.

Cost: Additional 96 gallon can: $ 75.00 setup fee (FY 2025/2026 schedule). No new-service fee printed for a first can.

Official page

♻️ Recycling

Recycling bins come from the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County and are picked up by Waste Pro, once per week. The City's What Can I Recycle page was not read.

🚛 Drop It Off Yourself

• 📍SWA Customer Convenience Drop-Off Center at North County Landfill, West Palm Beach · $20
• 📍SWA North County Transfer Station and HCRC (Jupiter), Jupiter · $20
• 📍SWA Central County Transfer Station and HCRC (Lantana), Lantana · $20
• 📍SWA South County Transfer Station and HCRC (Eastern Delray Beach), Delray Beach · $20
• 📍SWA Southwest County Transfer Station and HCRC (Western Delray Beach), Delray Beach · $20
• 📍SWA West Central Transfer Station and HCRC (Royal Palm Beach), Royal Palm Beach · $20

All drop-off sites, fees and hours in Palm Beach County

Rates are not shown here because the newest fee schedule we could read is for fiscal year 2025/2026. See the city's fees page in the sources below.

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Solid Waste (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Residential (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Yard Waste & Bulk (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Holiday Trash Pick Up Schedule (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Trash and Sanitation, hurricane guidance (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Fees and Ordinance (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Fiscal Year 26 (2025/2026) Solid Waste Fee Schedule, PDF (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Vegetation Amnesty Days - April 27 to May 8, 2026 (City of West Palm Beach)
• 🔗Pickup Schedule lookup (City of West Palm Beach)

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