🗑️ Columbia Trash Pickup
Who collects in Columbia, South Carolina, how to find your pickup day, bulk item pickup, holiday delays and what it costs. Checked October 31, 2026.
⚡ Quick Answer
In Columbia, residential trash is collected by City of Columbia Public Works, Solid Waste Division. Pickup days depend on your address, so use the official lookup (Waste Wizard ("Find your collection schedule here")) to find yours. Questions: (803) 545-3800.
📅 Find my pickup dayOfficial trash page
Checked October 31, 2026 against the city's and its hauler's own pages. We never print a pickup day for a whole city, because it changes by street.
🗓️ How Pickup Works
Roll carts are serviced weekly and are for household garbage only. The Solid Waste page points residents to the Waste Wizard to find their collection schedule, which also offers a customized calendar or notification. City ordinance requires roll carts to be removed from the curb no later than 7:30 p.m. on the day of collection. Place carts 3 feet from trees, mailboxes, vehicles and the recycling cart. Yard trimmings and bulk items are collected separately and should not be in the roll cart.
The division "provides collection and disposal within the corporate city limits for garbage, recycling and yard waste." Solid Waste only collects from City-furnished containers, not personal containers.
| Cart | Sizes | How often |
|---|---|---|
| 🗑️ Trash | Not printed | weekly |
🛋️ Bulk Item Pickup
- 📞How to book: Yard trimmings and bulk items are collected separately from the roll cart. Accepted yard items: loose or bagged leaves, branches (less than 6 ft in length), grass clippings and routine yard maintenance waste. The Yard Trimmings page lists bulk items (furniture, clothing, rigid plastics) and building material as "subject to a charge." Bricks, concrete and other building materials, tree removal and lot clearing are also "Subject to a Charge."
- 📏Limits: Branches less than 6 ft in length. Building materials must be separated from yard waste.
Too long a wait, or over the limit? Haul it yourself: 1 public drop-off sites in Richland County, or get a junk removal quote below.
🎄 Holiday Delays
Schedules are adjusted per holiday. For Thanksgiving 2025 the City posted: "Garbage, recycling and yard trash scheduled for Thursday will be serviced on Wednesday, November 26, 2025. Friday will be regular schedule." Holidays named: Thanksgiving.
♻️ Recycling
The City links a printable list of accepted recycling materials from its Recycling page.
🚛 Drop It Off Yourself
- 📍Richland County C&D Landfill Drop-Off Center, Columbia · Free
📚 Where This Comes From
- 🔗Solid Waste & Recycling (City of Columbia Public Works)
- 🔗Garbage Collection (City of Columbia Public Works)
- 🔗Waste Wizard (City of Columbia Public Works)
- 🔗Yard Trimmings (City of Columbia Public Works)
- 🔗Recycling (City of Columbia Public Works)
- 🔗Printable List of Accepted Materials (City of Columbia)
- 🔗City Offices to Close in Observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, Nov. 24, 2025 (City of Columbia)
Checked October 31, 2026. Trash rules and rates change; the official pages above are the final word. See something out of date? Tell us.
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