Trash & Recycling in Collier County, FL (2026)
7 rules for unincorporated Collier County, Florida.
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Pickup Rules & Schedules
Solid-waste collection is mandatory in unincorporated Collier County: all household waste must go to the county's designated contractor for disposal at an approved facility. Curbside collection runs Monday through Saturday except holidays; a holiday shifts your pickup to the next regular collection day.
Trash Collection Schedule in Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-104(B)
Collection service shall be provided by the Contractor on Monday through Saturday, except Holidays. Should a Holiday occur on the date designated as a Customer's collection day, the next collection for that Customer shall take place no later than the next regular collection day for the Customer.
Bin Placement Rules
Roll carts and other containers must be at the curb before 6:00 a.m. on your collection day but no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the night before, placed at least three feet from mailboxes or other obstacles. Carts must be removed from the curb by 6:00 a.m. the day after service.
Trash Cart Set-Out Rules in Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-104(C)(6)
[Containers] shall be placed Curbside prior to 6:00 a.m. on the scheduled collection day. However, these containers and materials shall be placed at Curbside no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the day prior to the Customer's next regularly scheduled collection day. Such containers and materials shall be placed at least three (3) feet from mailboxes or other obstacles.
Bulk Item Disposal
Collier County's contractor collects bulk waste, white goods (appliances) and electronics at the curb. Bulk items must not include vehicles, boats or liquid waste, and must be broken down into pieces under 50 pounds and four feet long. Call at least 48 hours ahead for white goods, electronics, tires or
Bulk Item and Large Waste Pickup in Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-104(C)(14)
Such materials shall be placed at Curbside and shall not include vehicles, vehicle component parts, boats or boat trailers or their component parts, or liquid waste. Further, Bulk Waste shall be disassembled, if possible, into sections or pieces of less than fifty (50) pounds in weight and four (4) feet in length, prior to pick up by the Contractor.
Recycling Requirements
Collier County designates seven categories of curbside recyclables under Sec. 118-136: paper, cardboard, glass, plastics numbered 1 through 7, aluminum and ferrous metal, and the Board can add or drop materials as recycling markets change. Once you set materials at the curb in a Recycling Roll Cart or Bin, they become county property, and only the county's authorized recycling contractor may touch them.
Curbside Recycling Requirements in Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-136
For the purposes of this Ordinance, recyclable materials means paper, cardboard, glass, plastic (Numbers. 1 through 7), aluminum, and ferrous metal. The Board may designate other materials (e.g., organic waste) as recyclable materials if the Board determines that a market exists for such materials and a cost-effective system is in place for recycling such materials. Materials shall be deleted f...
Illegal Dumping
It is unlawful to throw, drop or deposit litter of any amount on public or private property, streets, rights-of-way or water in unincorporated Collier County, except in designated enclosed containers. Illegal dumping of debris is a crime; landscapers and haulers must use authorized disposal facilities. Florida's litter law (FS 403.413)
Illegal Dumping and Littering in Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 54-180
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, discard, place, drop, or deposit litter in any manner or amount in or upon any public property, private property, highway, street, right-of-way or body of water within the unincorporated areas of Collier County, Florida, except in such areas and enclosed containers specifically provided and appropriately designated for the disposal of litter.
Collection Schedule
Collier County requires every residential and commercial property inside a solid-waste benefit unit to be serviced by the county's designated contractor unless it holds an exemption permit. Commercial owners must produce a signed service contract, or an approved self-haul exemption, before the county's community development and environmental services department will issue a certificate of occupancy.
Mandatory Trash Collection Service in Collier County
Significant RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-102
Unless exempt from the provisions of this article or burned under a valid permit, all solid waste generated and accumulated by a person on residential real property or commercial real property within a benefit unit shall be collected, conveyed, and transported to an approved county facility by the designated contractor. Each person that owns or occupies residential real property or commercial r...
Recycling Rules
Collier County requires every business, institution and other non-residential property to identify and recycle its 'primary' recyclable materials, generated at more than 96 gallons a month, and to keep bins and self-hauling records the County Manager can inspect. Sec. 118-137 of the county's Recycling Ordinance spells out what owners and generators each must do.
Business Recycling Requirements in Collier County
Significant RestrictionsCollier County Code Sec. 118-137
(a)Each owner shall: (1) provide recyclable materials containers on the owner's non-residential property so the generators located on the owner's non-residential property may recycle all of the recyclable materials that the generators have designated pursuant to Subsection (b), below; and (2) arrange for collection services of recycling materials placed in the recyclable materials containers or...
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