San Mateo, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Wednesday.

Recycling: Wednesday.

Yard waste: Wednesday.

Wednesday is what one San Mateo address returned on October 26, 2026.

Put bins curbside in the street before 6 a.m. on your service day.

Leave roughly two to three feet between bins and face them all the same direction.

Furniture, appliances and other oversized items are not regular cart items; schedule a curbside Bulky Item Collection for them instead.

Read from the official San Mateo guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in San Mateo depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

Some San Mateo addresses have no collection day in the source this lookup reads. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.

The example days above are read from Recology San Mateo County and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

The lookup reads a per-address collection calendar for San Mateo (Recology San Mateo County — Collection Calendar) through the ReCollect service. There is no single citywide weekday to quote: each address has its own calendar, and the lookup shows the weekday it lists for your property.

We last checked San Mateo 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 San Mateo's pickup days.

Recology San Mateo County publishes trash, recycling and yard waste days for San Mateo; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Recology San Mateo County, not here.

The nearest guides to San Mateo are Redwood City, San Bruno, South San Francisco and Pacifica. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.