🗑️ Apex Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Garbage, recycling and yard waste are each collected weekly. Roll your bin to the curb the night before your scheduled collection day. The Apex Collects app lets you review your calendar and set reminders for trash, recycling and yard waste collection days.

GFL is contracted by the town to provide weekly household garbage and recycling collection. Yard waste and bulk item collection are handled by the Town of Apex Public Works Department.

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 💵Cost: 1 or 2 items: $30 trip fee. 3 or more items: $15 per item. Mattress or box spring: $15 each, added to the $30 trip fee, $45 minimum. The fee is added to your next Town of Apex utility bill.
• 📞How to book: Submit an online service request (https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/81fa19094c53471e9f2b11b4bbf17f33) or call Ask Apex at (919) 249-3311. You will get an email within 1-2 business days with your collection day. Items must be at the curb by 6 am on pickup day.
• 📏Limits: Not available for businesses or apartments. Mattresses and box springs are picked up only on Fridays, and each counts as a separate item. A 12 ft by 12 ft piece of carpet counts as one item. Not accepted: construction, demolition and remodeling materials, household hazardous waste, electronics, household recycling, yard waste. New residents get a one-time free box pickup (boxes empty and flattened).

Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 15 public drop-off sites in Wake County, or get a junk removal quote below.

Official bulk pickup page

🎄 Holiday Delays

If your collection day falls directly on a listed holiday, collection moves to the following day, and the rest of that week shifts by one day. Holidays that fall on a weekend do not affect the schedule. Holidays named: Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.

Official holiday schedule

Dump and transfer station holiday hours

💵 What Residents Pay

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

🚛 Drop It Off Yourself

• 📍South Wake Landfill, Apex · $37
• 📍Wake County Convenience Center Site 1, Raleigh
• 📍Wake County Convenience Center Site 2, Apex
• 📍Wake County Convenience Center Site 3, Morrisville
• 📍Wake County Convenience Center Site 4, Raleigh
• 📍Wake County Convenience Center Site 5, Raleigh

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

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Solid Waste Services (Town of Apex)
• 🔗Bulk Item Collection (Town of Apex)
• 🔗Garbage Collection (Town of Apex)
• 🔗Solid Waste Collection App (Town of Apex)
• 🔗Town of Apex Fee Schedule, effective 7/1/2026 (PDF)

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