Resolve
Match the address to a real location before asking for a schedule.
Methodology
How TrashDayNow works.
How an address becomes a collection day, what stands behind the answer, and what the site is and is not.
Start with the property
Schedules are local — even within one city.
A city name or ZIP code is often not specific enough to determine a collection day. Routes change by block, district, property type and provider, so TrashDayNow starts with a complete street address.
The address is resolved to the location the connected source needs. We do not publish a pickup day when that source cannot verify one for the property. Address search and geocoding are powered by Esri's ArcGIS location services.
Scope
Use the city, state and location returned for that property.
Verify
Return only what the connected source supports.
Keep the evidence close
Every answer shows where it came from.
Results name the local collection source and link to it whenever a source page exists. Trash, recycling, organics, yard waste and bulk are separate services; a verified day for one is never copied onto another.
One city can contain municipal routes, private haulers, apartment or HOA service and properties outside the local program. When the source says a property is outside its service area, the result says so. When no reliable match exists, the day stays unverified and the result points to the local source instead of guessing.
Source shown
The result keeps its source name and link beside the schedule.
Services kept separate
Each service keeps its own published pattern.
No silent fill-ins
Missing information stays missing instead of becoming a weekday.
Resident reports
Where no source answers, neighbors do.
After a lookup, a resident can confirm the day shown or name the real one in one tap, with no account. Each report is placed at its location and shown to nearby neighbors with how far away it is.
Where no official source answers, those reports are the answer: the nearest ones lead, and confidence grows as nearby reports agree. Where an official source answers, it stays the answer and reports are shown beside it, never in place of it.
One tap
Confirm the day, or tap the right one.
Shown with a distance
“Residents nearby report Tuesday (0.3 mi away).”
Official day stays
A report never replaces a published schedule.
Good to knowA report is not a service request. Missed pickups, carts, billing and route changes go to the local agency or hauler.
Holiday weeks
The city's rule, in its own words.
Cities decide holiday changes late and differently. The holiday rules page carries the published rule for the 275 cities we have transcribed so far; a city that is not listed there has not been transcribed yet, and in every city the city's own notice that week is the final word. The calendar keeps your regular day rather than moving it on its own.
Holiday rules by city
What each city publishes for holiday weeks.
Holiday schedules
The general guidance, by holiday.
Your calendar
Look up the address once; the calendar keeps the day.
Under the collection days on a result there is an Add to Calendar button. It subscribes your calendar app to a small calendar named for what it holds — for example “Trash and recycling days · TrashDayNow” — with one all-day event per collection day and a reminder at 6 p.m. the evening before. It is a subscription, so it keeps going on its own; remove it from your app whenever you like.
A service gets an entry when its published schedule is a plain weekday pattern — every Tuesday, or every other Wednesday with a known start. A schedule the city publishes as dates does not, because a calendar that guesses is worse than none. The link carries your city, the services, the day pattern and a random subscription code — never your street address.
The link is a standard iCalendar subscription at a versioned address that stays valid for as long as the day is published, so any app or automation that subscribes to internet calendars can read it. Home Assistant's Waste Collection Schedule integration takes the copied link as the url of its ICS source.
Apple Calendar
iPhone, iPad and Mac open the subscribe sheet directly.
Google Calendar
Opens the add-by-URL flow, on Android or the web.
Outlook
Opens Outlook's add-from-web flow.
Home Assistant and any other app
Choose Copy calendar link, then paste it into any app that subscribes to internet calendars. In Home Assistant it is the url of the Waste Collection Schedule integration's ICS source.
Associations and property managers
One link gives every resident their day.
Every city has a guide page that opens with the lookup. Put your city's guide in a newsletter or resident portal and residents land on the form with the city already chosen; the address is the only thing they type. The link is trashdaynow.com/cities/ followed by the city and state, for example trashdaynow.com/cities/houston-tx-trash-pickup.
There is no account, nothing to install and no cost to residents or to an association. If your community is served by a private hauler, the lookup says so rather than showing a city day that is not yours.
Find your city's guide
Every guide, by state.
Reuse and citation
Cite the page. Reuse the tables.
The tables the site publishes for everyone — Trash Day Trends and its downloads, and the holiday rules by city — are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. Copy, share and adapt them for non-commercial purposes with a link to the page they came from; for commercial use, write to us first.
Everything else is for residents' own use. Per-address answers depend on the exact property and belong to the lookup rather than to a table, and nothing about a visitor or a lookup is licensed to anyone. A suggested citation sits at the bottom of this page and of every page that carries a table.
Trash Day Trends data
Weekday shares nationally and by city, and collection facts for every city guide, as CSV.
Holiday rules on GitHub
The holiday rules table as CSV and JSON, with the source page for each city.
CC BY-NC 4.0
The license in full, at Creative Commons.
About
An independent lookup, not a city service.
TrashDayNow is built and maintained by Bineyam Tsegaye. It is not a city department, sanitation agency or hauler, and it does not control collection routes; the answer is only as current as the source page it names.
Lookup records are used to find and fix wrong answers and are deleted after 180 days. They are never sold or licensed. Questions and corrections about a city or a guide go to the contact page.
See it in practice