🗑️ Raleigh Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Pickup day depends on your address: enter it in the Raleigh Reuse app (weekly notifications available) or on the MyRaleigh Services page, or call 919-996-3245. Put garbage and recycling carts on the curb the night before your collection day or no later than 6 a.m. the day of collection, and take them back no later than 7 p.m. after collection. Yard waste cannot be placed on the curb until noon on the day before your assigned collection day.

City crews collect residential garbage, recycling and yard waste; fees are billed on the City utility bill.

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 💵Cost: Bulky Load: $35 per load (starting April 1, 2026). Special Load (white goods, excess bags, large exercise equipment): $70 per load. Charged on your next utility bill. E-waste: four items per week free, Mondays only (effective October 26, 2026).
• 📞How to book: Call Customer Support at 919-996-3245 with your name, property address, phone number and a description of the items. Set items at the curb on the scheduled day, five feet away from mailboxes, light poles and cars. Cancel by 12 p.m. on the business day before the scheduled collection.
• 📏Limits: Each load is limited to four cubic yards, or six feet long, three feet wide and four feet high. Loads are charged in full increments; partial Special Loads are not collected.

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

For Thanksgiving the City posted: "garbage, recycling and yard waste collection will be pushed back one day later than normal." Holiday changes are announced per holiday; the Raleigh Reuse app shows how holidays affect your schedule. Holidays named: Thanksgiving.

Official holiday schedule

Dump and transfer station holiday hours

🏡 New Resident? Starting Service

Contact the Solid Waste Services Customer Support Center (919-996-3245) for a garbage or recycling cart after you have moved in; carts are not delivered to vacant houses.

Official page

♻️ Recycling

Recycling goes in your blue bin. Never bag your recycling; keep recyclables loose in the bin.

🚛 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

Rates are not shown here because the city's own pages print conflicting or undated amounts. See the official rate page in the sources below.

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Solid Waste Services (City of Raleigh)
• 🔗Solid Waste Fees (City of Raleigh)
• 🔗Special Garbage Collection (City of Raleigh)
• 🔗Garbage, Recycling, and Yard Waste Preparation (City of Raleigh)
• 🔗Solid Waste Common Questions (City of Raleigh)
• 🔗City Offices Closed alert (City of Raleigh)

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