Refuse and recycling carts at the curb
Streets & Urban Forestry

Trash & Recycling

Look up your Collection Schedule

Example: 100 Main St

Looking for the version of the collection calendar you can print?

Enter your address into the form above. Just type in your house number and street name. 

The next two collection dates will pop up. 

Under the next two dates, you will see a link that says "Full collection schedule." 

Click that link. The full year calendar for your home should open up.

Seeing last year's collection calendar after you click on the "Full collection schedule" link?

You need to do what's called a "hard refresh" on your web browser software. Sometimes files get stuck, or "cached," from the last time you visited a page, so they need to cleared out. 

How you do a "hard refresh" depends on the kind of web browser you are using. You will need to look this up for the kind of web browser you are using.  

Still having troubles?

Contact us and we will mail out a calendar to your home.

Trash

Put your trash in the tan cart. We collect trash every week. See the trash guidelines for more details.

Recycling

Put your recycling in the green cart. We collect recycling every other week.

Recycling is required in Madison. Do not put recyclable items in the trash.  See the recycling guidelines for more details.

Holidays

We do not perform collections on City holidays. Our drop-off sites and offices are also closed.

Use the schedule lookup tool to get the collection schedule for your home to see how holidays affect your trash and recycling pickup.  

To see a list of the City holidays, go to the holiday page.

What do I do with...?

If you are trying to learn the right way to get rid something in your home, look it up in the Recyclopedia.

Type your item into the form to get your answer.

Spelling counts, so try your best.

The Recyclopedia doesn't have everything but it has a lot. If you are trying to find something and it isn't there, you can suggest we add that item to the answer list and please contact us so you can get the answer you need.

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