What day is trash collected in Austin, TX?
Austin collects on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — which of those is yours depends on the route covering your street, so check your address above for the exact day.
Austin, TX
Austin, TX trash pickup by address.
Enter an Austin, TX street address to check trash, recycling and yard waste pickup as published by Austin Resource Recovery.
Setting out in Austin Carts need to be at the curb by 5:30 a.m., spaced at least five feet apart and clear of cars, mailboxes, trees, and overhead wires.
Trash Day Trends · Austin
Austin, TX at a glance.
Austin in the national picture, from its published rules. See the national trends.
- 4 daysAustin collects on four weekdays across its routes44% of cities run four
- 5:30 amCarts out by
- Every 2 wksRecycling every other week
- 2Published alongside trash: recycling, yard waste
Verified schedule
Austin collection days, read from Austin Resource Recovery.
Trash / garbage: Friday.
Recycling: Friday week A.
Yard waste: Friday.
The day above is for 301 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701, last checked on September 11, 2026.
Austin Resource Recovery returned address-level collection data for this location.
Brush and bulk items use route-based service dates when published by the official layer.
Set-out rules
Cart and set-out rules in Austin.
Carts need to be at the curb by 5:30 a.m., spaced at least five feet apart and clear of cars, mailboxes, trees, and overhead wires.
Collection slides to the next day only for a short list of holidays — New Year's, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — and for the remaining pickups in those weeks; other holidays leave the schedule unchanged.
Brush, bulk, household hazardous waste, and textile pickups are on-demand collections that customers schedule with Austin Resource Recovery, available a few times a year.
Read from the official Austin guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.
Your collection day
Why Austin days differ by address.
Austin collects on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, depending on which route covers your street. Enter your address above for the day that applies to your property.
Some Austin 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 Austin Resource Recovery and were last checked on August 17, 2026.
Local source
The source stays attached to the answer.
Austin Resource Recovery publishes the collection information behind this page. TrashDayNow is independent of the city, so rely on that source for service alerts, cart standards, and missed-pickup reporting.
Good to knowPage information was last checked Aug 2026.
Before pickup
What Austin residents should verify.
Austin Resource Recovery provides address-based collection information for eligible Austin properties.
Common questions
Questions residents ask.
Why does my Austin address show no collection day?
Austin runs city collection for most homes, and we tell you when yours is not one of them. Apartments, commercial sites and some streets are served by a private hauler under contract instead, and for those the day comes from your hauler rather than the city — we say so rather than showing a day that is not yours.
Which collections are published for Austin?
Austin Resource Recovery publishes trash, recycling and yard waste for Austin.
Local source
Verify with Austin Resource Recovery.
The Austin address result links Austin Resource Recovery directly.
Open local source (opens in a new tab)- Location
- Austin, TX
- Local source
- Austin Resource Recovery
- Schedule
- Checked by full address
- Page updated
- Aug 2026
Collection services in Austin
- Trash / garbage
- Recycling
- Yard waste
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