🗑️ Winston-Salem Trash Pickup

🗓️ How Pickup Works

Each home has its own assigned weekly trash day; enter your address in Winston-Salem Collects. Recycling alternates by Red Week and Blue Week. Set recycling at the curb by 6 a.m. on your scheduled day and do not bag it. Place carts with the lid hinge away from the street, about three feet from cars, mailboxes and other carts.

The City collects garbage weekly at no charge for single-family homes. The New Resident Resources page says Waste Management collects recycling every other week at no charge; the Sanitation page names no contractor.

🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup

• 📞How to book: Bulky items are picked up by City crews only during your annual neighborhood area cleanup (2026 schedule runs March 2 through August 31 to September 4, no collection April 6 to 10). Check your week on the Bulky Item Schedule map. Put items out the weekend before your scheduled week; trucks make one pass and late items are not collected. Outside the cleanup, take items to Hanes Mill Road Landfill (325 W Hanes Mill Rd.).
• 📏Limits: Single-family homes only (no apartments or businesses). Accepted: appliances, carpet, furniture, mattresses, toys. Not accepted: construction materials, car parts, cement, electronic waste, glass, hazardous waste, lumber, oil drums, paint, rocks, tires and yard waste. If bulky items are mixed with unacceptable materials, none of it will be collected. City residents get two free trips to the Hanes Mill Road landfill with a permit.

Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 5 public drop-off sites in Forsyth County, or get a junk removal quote below.

Official bulk pickup page

🎄 Holiday Delays

Around holidays, pickups shift by a day or more, and some Friday pickups move to Saturday. See the 2026 Red/Blue Week holiday collection calendar. Holidays named: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day.

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.

🏡 New Resident? Starting Service

Single-family homes get free City-issued roll-out carts that stay with the address. If you moved into a single-family house inside city limits and have no carts, call CityLink at 311.

Cost: First trash cart and delivery free

Official page

♻️ Recycling

Do not bag recycling. For weekly household recycling pickup, contact Recycle Today at 336-727-8153.

🚛 Drop It Off Yourself

• 📍Hanes Mill Road Landfill, Winston-Salem · $7
• 📍Old Salisbury Road Landfill, Winston-Salem · $7
• 📍Overdale Yard Waste Facility, Winston-Salem · $7
• 📍Forum 52 Yard Waste Facility, Rural Hall · $7
• 📍Kernersville Public Services Drop-Off, Kernersville

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

📚 Where This Comes From

• 🔗Sanitation (City of Winston-Salem)
• 🔗New Resident Resources (City of Winston-Salem)
• 🔗Sanitation FAQs (City of Winston-Salem)
• 🔗Bulky Items (City of Winston-Salem)
• 🔗Yard Waste Carts (City of Winston-Salem)
• 🔗Red/Blue Week Holiday Collection Calendar 2026 (City of Winston-Salem, 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.