Trash And Recycling Collection Day(s)

The Department of Public Works removes approximately 106,000 tons of trash and more than 20,000 tons of recyclables from 110,000 single-family homes and small residential buildings (with no more than three living units) each year. Residential buildings with more than 3 living units do not receive trash and recycling collection services from the District.

Enter Your Address to Learn Your Collection Day
Enter part or all of any address in the District of Columbia (example: 441 4th Street NE, 400 Block of 4th Street NW, C Street NE and 10th Street NE) to find out the trash and recycling collection day(s) at that location. If multiple addresses are found, please select one from the list.
Please Note: If a person enters the address of a building with more than 3 living units, clicking the button will return a collection day, but that does not override the District’s policy of collecting trash and recycling from single family homes and residential buildings with no more than 3 living units. Apartment buildings with more than 3 units are required to provide their own collection services.

Most households follow a once-a-week trash collection schedule and use the 96-gallon plastic rolling cart, or Supercan, for their trash. Homes in neighborhoods with narrow streets and alleys receive twice-weekly trash collection and use the smaller 32-gallon plastic rolling carts (mini-Supercan), or Clean City or personal trash cans.

When a holiday falls on a trash and recycling collection day, collections will "slide" to the next day for the rest of the week after the holiday through Saturday. For example, if the holiday falls on a Monday, DPW will collect Monday routes on Tuesday and so on through Saturday. In neighborhoods with twice-weekly trash collections, if the holiday occurs on a Monday, Monday and Thursday collections will be made Tuesday and Friday, and Tuesday and Friday collections will be made Wednesday and Saturday.