San Rafael, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Thursday, Oct 29; Thursday, Nov 5; Thursday, Nov 12; Thursday, Nov 19.

Recycling: Thursday, Oct 29; Thursday, Nov 5; Thursday, Nov 12; Thursday, Nov 19.

Organics / compost: Thursday, Oct 29; Thursday, Nov 5; Thursday, Nov 12; Thursday, Nov 19.

These dates are what one San Rafael address returned on October 26, 2026.

Carts can go out the night before, but they have to be at the curb before 6:00 a.m. on service day.

Put carts at the curb on the street so parked cars cannot block them, spaced 2 feet apart and 5 feet from other objects.

Take off any weights, bungee cords or ropes used to hold cart lids down before collection day.

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

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

The example days above are read from Marin Sanitary Service and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

The lookup reads a per-address collection calendar for San Rafael (Marin Sanitary Service — Residential Garbage Collection Services) through the ReCollect service. There is no single citywide weekday to quote: each address has its own dated calendar, which is why the lookup shows upcoming dates for your property.

We last checked San Rafael on August 17, 2026: 11 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 Rafael's pickup days.

Marin Sanitary Service publishes trash, recycling and organics days for San Rafael; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Marin Sanitary Service, not here.

The nearest guides to San Rafael are Novato, Richmond, San Francisco and Berkeley. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.