Ames, IA trash pickup by address.

Recycling: Friday.

Friday is what one Ames address returned on September 17, 2026.

Ames runs 3 collection days a week, Monday, Tuesday and Friday; the route covering your street sets which one is yours.

Some Ames properties are not on city collection at all — apartments, businesses and streets served by a private hauler. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.

These days are read from City of Ames Recycling Pickup Days and were last checked on September 17, 2026.

Ames publishes its collection routes as a map (City of Ames Recycling Pickup Days layer (Curbside Recycling Collection Schedule lookup, gis.cityofames.org)): every property sits inside a route area, and each area carries a fixed weekday for recycling; the lookup reads that area for your address.

[object Object] Ames collects curbside recycling on a two-week cycle (Gray and Green zone weeks). Household garbage in Ames is arranged directly with a private hauler, so the city publishes a recycling day per address but no garbage day.

We last measured Ames on September 17, 2026: 6 of 8 addresses returned an exact collection day, and 2 were outside city collection, served by a private hauler instead. Across those addresses collection ran Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

City of Ames Recycling Pickup Days publishes recycling days for Ames; this page last read it on September 17, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Ames Recycling Pickup Days, not here.

The nearest guides to Ames are Des Moines, Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids; each sets its own routes and holiday rule at the town line.