Salt Lake City, UT trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Thursday.

Recycling: Thursday.

Organics / compost: Thursday.

Thursday is what one Salt Lake City address returned on September 11, 2026.

Wheeled carts need to be out by 7 a.m. on your collection day.

Pull carts back off the curb or street the same day, once they have been emptied.

Dirt belongs in the green garbage cart, not in the brown yard waste cart.

Heavy material such as dirt, rocks or mortar should fill no more than 25% of the garbage cart, or the cart can break.

Read from the official Salt Lake City guidance on August 23, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Salt Lake City runs 5 collection days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; the route covering your street sets which one is yours.

These days are read from Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen) and were last checked on August 17, 2026.

Salt Lake City publishes its own address-level collection lookup, Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen). There is no single citywide weekday: the day is set per property, and the lookup above reads Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen)'s answer for the exact address you enter.

We last measured Salt Lake City on August 17, 2026: 10 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day. Across those addresses collection ran Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen) publishes trash, recycling and organics days for Salt Lake City; this page last read it on September 11, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen), not here.

The nearest guides to Salt Lake City are Millcreek, West Valley City, Taylorsville and Bountiful; each sets its own routes and holiday rule at the town line.