Trash Day Trends
Tuesday is trash day for more of the homes we checked than any other day.
What people are getting when they check their address on TrashDayNow, and when they check — as shares, not counts. Updated October 28, 2026.
Which day is trash day
Tuesday is a trash day for 25% of the homes we checked in the last 30 days. Saturday collection is real but rare (3% of homes). A home with more than one trash day a week counts on each, so the bars add up to more than 100%.
Your own city’s split is on its page — find your city.
Trending cities
Where the most homes checked their trash day this week.
When people check
60% of checks happen the day before (37%) or the morning of (23%) the home’s trash day. Monday is the busiest day to check (23%), and the busiest hour is around 6 pm.
What comes with the trash day
Of the homes we checked that got a verified trash day, these shares also got a day for another service in the same answer. A home that is not counted here may still have that service: many of the city sources we read publish only the trash day, and some publish recycling or yard waste in a separate calendar. 83% of the homes whose answer included a recycling day have it on one of their trash days; the rest have a separate recycling day.
When carts go out
Among cities that publish a set-out deadline, 48% say carts must be at the curb by 7 am, and 34% by 6 am. Your city’s own rule is on its page.
How many weekdays a city’s trash routes run
Among the 83 cities whose full route map we have read, 67% run five collection days across their routes, and 19% run four. 2% run every route on the same day.
Is your city one of these?
Some homes get trash twice a week or more
Abilene, TX · Allentown, PA · Altamonte Springs, FL · Amarillo, TX · Atascocita, TX · Aventura, FL · Babylon, NY · Baton Rouge, LA · Bayonne, NJ · Baytown, TX · Bedford, TX · Bloomfield, NJ · and 136 more
Recycling every other week at the example address we checked
Abbotsford, BC · Aloha, OR · Antelope, CA · Apopka, FL · Arden-Arcade, CA · Aventura, FL · Beloit, WI · Bend, OR · Birmingham, AL · Bristol, CT · Brockton, MA · Burlington, NC · and 104 more
Saturday collection
Bridge City, LA · Coral Springs, FL · Davie, FL · Delray Beach, FL · East Honolulu, HI · East Orange, NJ · Enterprise, NV · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Harvey, LA · Jersey City, NJ · Marrero, LA · Mesa, AZ · and 10 more
Neighbors have confirmed their days here
Residents in these cities checked their address and told us the day matched. Yours can too — the lookup asks, one tap.
Download the data
Both tables as CSV, regenerated nightly with this page. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0: copy, share and adapt them for non-commercial purposes with a link to this page. Shares only, never counts, and nothing that identifies a home.
- Trash day shares, national and by cityThe share of homes checked that have trash pickup on each weekday, nationally and for every city above the five-home floor, with when people check and the share of homes whose recycling comes on one of their trash days. A home counts once; a home with more than one trash day counts on each (more_than_one_trash_day_pct is the share of such homes, left blank where some answers listed more than one day but no city schedule we hold shows twice-weekly trash), and a city with few homes has its shares rounded to the nearest 5 (rounded_to_pct), so a row can add up to more or less than 100 for either reason. busiest_check_day lists every day tied for the most checks, separated by semicolons.
- Collection facts for every city guideHow many weekdays each city's trash routes run (only where we have read the city's full route map; blank otherwise), twice-weekly trash, every-other-week recycling, Saturday collection, the set-out deadline and the services covered. The true/false columns are true where what we read shows it for at least some homes: the city's full route map where we have read one, and otherwise the schedule our lookup read from the city's own source for the guide's example address, which can lag a change the city has made; trash_twice_weekly means two or more trash pickups a week for those homes, not for every home. False means we did not find it stated, not that the city has confirmed it does not apply. set_out_deadline is the time carts must be out by, never the time they must be brought back in.
How these figures are made
Shares of real checks, never a count.
Every figure on this page is a percentage from the address checks made on TrashDayNow over the last 30 days — the trending list uses the last 7 — from real visitors only. The trash-day split and what comes with it are shares of homes: a home counts once, on its latest answer, however often it is checked, and a home with more than one trash day a week counts on each. When people check is a share of all checks.
A city appears in a ranking, a chart or a list only once enough different homes have been checked there, and shares from a small city are rounded. Nothing here identifies an address, a street or a person; the day you see on your own result is yours alone.
The set-out deadline comes from each city's published rules as read for its guide, not from visitors. Collection-day counts come only from cities whose full route map we have read, never from a sample of addresses.
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