City of Madison, Garbage and Trash Service
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Madison, AL
Madison, AL trash pickup: who collects.
The lookup reads a published Garbage Collection Areas map for some Madison addresses and shows no day where it finds none. Here is who collects there and where everyone else's day is set.
How collection works
How trash collection works in Madison.
The City of Madison's page says household garbage service is provided by Madison County Sanitation every Thursday; for more information call Madison County Sanitation at 256-532-3718.
Republic Services provides the City's trash service, collecting green waste such as tree limbs, brush, leaves and grass clippings and collapsed, bundled cardboard boxes; it can be reached at 256-327-4449, and the City posts the schedule for when this service comes to your street.
Items such as paint, oil, batteries, gas tanks, televisions, computers, microwaves, tires, clothes, paper, food, glass bottles and construction materials are not picked up with this service.
Madison County Waste Control's 2026 holiday schedule moves Thursday's garbage a day later, to November 13, in Veterans Day week and to November 27 in Thanksgiving week, and keeps Thursday collection in the weeks of Christmas and New Year's Day.
Local source
Where this guide's Madison information comes from: City of Madison, Garbage and Trash Service.
This guide was last checked against City of Madison, Garbage and Trash Service on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, carts and missed pickups belong with whoever collects your trash, not here.
Good to knowChecked against City of Madison, Garbage and Trash Service in Oct 2026.
Nearby
Around Madison: nearby guides and who collects there.
The nearest guides to Madison are Huntsville, Decatur, Columbia and Spring Hill. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.
Huntsville, AL
City of Huntsville Sanitation Department.
Decatur, AL
City of Decatur Solid Waste Department.
Columbia, TN
City of Columbia Public Works, Sanitation Division. Trash routes run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Spring Hill, TN
City of Spring Hill (collection by WM).
Murfreesboro, TN
City of Murfreesboro Solid Waste: Garbage Collection Procedures.
Birmingham, AL
City of Birmingham Department of Public Works Waste Services.
Common questions
Questions residents ask.
What day is trash collected in Madison, AL?
It depends on the address: the lookup above reads a published Garbage Collection Areas map for some Madison addresses and shows no day where it finds none. The City of Madison's page says household garbage service is provided by Madison County Sanitation every Thursday; for more information call Madison County Sanitation at 256-532-3718. Residents who know their day can report it on the result page, and nearby homes then see it.
Local source
Verify with Madison County Sanitation at 256-532-3718.
City of Madison, Garbage and Trash Service is the official source this guide was read from; the link below opens it.
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- Oct 2026
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