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 November 2, 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.

Pickup days in Salt Lake City depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

The example days above are read from Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen) and were last checked on November 2, 2026.

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

We last checked Salt Lake City on August 17, 2026: 10 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Salt Lake City's pickup days.

Salt Lake City Sustainability (SLCgreen) publishes trash, recycling and organics days for Salt Lake City; this page last read them on November 2, 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, Murray and Taylorsville. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.