Kyle, TX
City of Kyle (collection by Texas Disposal Systems).
San Marcos, TX
San Marcos, TX trash pickup by address.
Enter a San Marcos, TX street address to check trash pickup as published by City of San Marcos.
Setting out in San Marcos Carts are serviced across a long window running from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., so setting out early is the only way to be certain.
Trash Day Trends · San Marcos, last 30 days
Thursday is a trash day for 30% of San Marcos homes we checked.
60% of checks here come the day before or the morning of trash day — most on Sunday. See the national trends.
Verified schedule
San Marcos collection days, read from City of San Marcos.
Trash / garbage: Tuesday.
Tuesday is what one San Marcos address returned on October 26, 2026.
Set-out rules
Cart and set-out rules in San Marcos.
Carts are serviced across a long window running from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., so setting out early is the only way to be certain.
Carts have to be returned to your house or behind a fence by 9 p.m. on your service day.
The arrows moulded into the cart lids have to point toward the street.
Carts need three feet of space between them, in a spot clear of mailboxes, parked vehicles, trees and utility lines.
Carts must be back at the house or behind a fence by 9 p.m. on the service day, and crews work the routes between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Read from the official San Marcos guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.
Your collection day
Why San Marcos days differ by address.
Pickup days in San Marcos depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.
The example days above are read from City of San Marcos and were last checked on October 26, 2026.
How days are assigned
How San Marcos assigns collection days.
San Marcos publishes its collection routes as a map (City of San Marcos): each route area carries a fixed weekday for trash; the lookup reads that area for your address and turns the city's route codes into plain weekdays.
We last checked San Marcos on August 17, 2026: 6 of 6 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of San Marcos's pickup days.
Local source
City of San Marcos sets San Marcos's collection days.
City of San Marcos publishes trash days for San Marcos; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of San Marcos, not here.
Good to knowChecked against City of San Marcos in Oct 2026: trash.
Nearby
Around San Marcos: nearby guides and who collects there.
The nearest guides to San Marcos are Kyle, New Braunfels, Austin and Schertz. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.
New Braunfels, TX
City of New Braunfels.
Austin, TX
Austin Resource Recovery. Trash routes run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Schertz, TX
City of Schertz (collection by Frontier Waste Solutions). Trash routes run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Pflugerville, TX
City of Pflugerville Utility Billing.
Cedar Park, TX
City of Cedar Park.
Common questions
Questions residents ask.
What day is trash collected in San Marcos, TX?
It depends on your street. City of San Marcos sets the day for each address, and the lookup above reads it for yours.
Which collections are published for San Marcos?
City of San Marcos publishes trash for San Marcos.
Local source
Verify with City of San Marcos.
The San Marcos address result links City of San Marcos directly.
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- Oct 2026
Collection services in San Marcos
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