Austin, TX trash pickup by address.

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.

Austin's trash routes run on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That list comes from Austin Resource Recovery collection routes, read in full on September 28, 2026. Enter your address above to see yours.

Austin Resource Recovery collects from single-family homes and from properties with four units or fewer; buildings with five or more units must use a private hauler. The lookup can still show a larger apartment or condo building a route day, so a day shown for one may not apply.

Austin runs on most holidays, and names the short list that changes. The city's published rule: 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.

The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the rule means for each if Austin observes it. The city's own calendar governs which holidays it observes.

Austin publishes its own address-level collection lookup, Austin Resource Recovery. There is no single citywide weekday: the day depends on the address, and the lookup above reads Austin Resource Recovery's answer for the exact address you enter.

We last checked Austin on August 17, 2026: 11 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day.

Austin Resource Recovery publishes collection days for Austin; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Austin Resource Recovery, not here.

Austin Resource Recovery provides address-based collection information for eligible Austin properties.

The nearest guides to Austin are Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Round Rock and Kyle. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.