Trash & Recycling in Alabama (2026)

Auburn requires tenants, lessees and owners to keep a safe, clear path to garbage containers so solid waste crews can…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, the sanitation department or its contractor collects residential garbage at least once…

The City of Dothan only collects carts it provided or approved, and City Code Sec. 82-54 lists exactly why a cart can…

Hoover bars residents from placing trash, rubbish, garbage, or yard debris meant for city collection directly on the…

Huntsville residents must set garbage cans at the curb no earlier than sundown the night before collection day and pull…

In Madison, Republic Services handles curbside trash and bulky items while recycling carts are collected monthly…

Mobile collects household garbage once a week on a set day by address; carts must reach the curb no earlier than noon…

City Code Sec. 25-33 sets Montgomery's baseline pickup schedule: residential garbage at least twice a week, business…

Tuscaloosa residents must have garbage carts, recycling bins, and trash at the curb before 6:00 a.m. on their…

Vestavia Hills' sanitary department picks up garbage twice a week and trash once a week from every single-family and…

Auburn residents in cart-service areas must place their 96-gallon roll-out cart at curbside by 6:00 a.m. on pickup day…

Bessemer garbage cans and rubbish containers must keep lids tightly fitted except when in use, under Code of Ordinances…

Birmingham residents and businesses can't set garbage cans, bags or dumpsters out on the sidewalk any earlier than 6…

In the City of Dothan, residential carts must be curbside no later than 6:00 a.m. on collection day and pulled back by…

Huntsville residents must set their city-issued garbage cart within three feet of the curb, facing the right way with…

In the U.S. Highway 280 Corridor Overlay, Jefferson County's Sec. 1502.05 requires commercial and institutional…

All trash must be placed at the curb or roadway edge by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day, and never under power lines…

Mobile zoning bars dumpsters from front yards, buffers, and rights-of-way, and requires an 8-foot enclosure of matching…

Section 45-49-252.07 requires solid waste to be stored on the property in vector-resistant, water-tight containers that…

Montgomery requires every resident to use the city-issued roll-out cart and put it at the curb no later than 7:00 a.m…

Tuscaloosa only picks up garbage set out in city-issued carts, City Code Sec. 16-93(a). Bags, cans, and other…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, garbage cans and approved containers go where the sanitation department directs, on…

Vestavia Hills residents must set trash, leaves, limbs and bushes within five feet of the curbline, never in the street…

Auburn's solid waste department removes oversized burnable and nonburnable waste from residential premises on an…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, bulky waste and tree limbs from homes and apartments go beside the sidewalk and curb…

The City of Dothan collects large items like appliances, stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, furniture, and…

Huntsville's sanitation division collects bulk waste, white goods, and loose yard waste weekly from residences, but…

Republic Services collects appliances, furniture, mattresses, and yard debris weekly. Tree limbs must be under 8 feet…

Mobile's biweekly household trash pickup is free for up to two cubic yards or 15 bags of leaves per household; anything…

Furniture, trees, sod, lumber and other bulky items that don't count as ordinary garbage or rubbish are handled as…

Montgomery's sanitation department will haul away oversized brush, tree trunks and large appliances on a special…

Tuscaloosa's weekly trash service covers up to five cubic yards of bulky household trash per residence at no extra…

Vestavia Hills collects building debris, tree limbs and stumps as ordinary trash under strict size limits, capping each…

Birmingham lets residents set out bulky furniture and appliances at the curb for city pickup with no bags, boxes or…

Alabama imposes no mandatory recycling on residents or businesses. Under the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials…

Recycling in Madison is a free, voluntary program run by RANA (a division of the Solid Waste Disposal Authority)…

Once you set recyclables at the curb or in a city-designated bin in Tuscaloosa, they legally become city property, City…

Code Sec. 14-31(9) requires the city's sanitation contractor to collect recyclables from every residential unit once a…

In the City of Dothan, Alabama, City Code § 82-122 puts the city manager in charge of creating and running the…

Montgomery's Sanitation Department picks up green cans one day, not two, in any week that includes a City-observed…

Mobile, Alabama closes garbage and trash collection on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, 2026, with a Saturday…

Tuscaloosa publishes its own holiday calendar for garbage, trash and recycling. Thursday, November 26, 2026…

In the City of Dothan, Alabama, City Code § 82-111 makes it unlawful to knowingly deposit litter on public or private…

Dumping litter, debris, or waste on public property or someone else's property in Huntsville is a misdemeanor under…

Dumping litter, garbage, trash, or junk on any private or public property in Mobile without permission is a Chapter 25…

Dumping refuse in a street, ditch, lake or private property you don't control is banned under Section 45-49-252.14(d)…

Dumping garbage anywhere but a sanitary landfill, or depositing refuse on streets, sidewalks or someone else's…

Dumping gravel, cement, garbage, trash, debris or litter of any kind on Tuscaloosa streets, public ways, or private…

A Legislature-enacted nuisance law declares the accumulation and storage of junk, litter and discarded tires in…

Auburn makes it unlawful to dump garbage anywhere other than a sanitary landfill, and the city's residential trash…

Dumping refuse, litter, or debris on a Bessemer street, public thoroughfare, or within 20 yards of one is unlawful…

Birmingham makes it a crime to knowingly dump litter on public or private property or waters without permission, drop…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, it is unlawful to dump refuse on any property other than a garbage dump, to deposit…

Hoover bans accumulating or dumping solid waste, garbage, or refuse on any property in a way that becomes a nuisance or…

Jefferson County's Weed and Litter Ordinance bars anyone in charge of unincorporated-area property from letting…

Vestavia Hills bans dumping earth material, trash, construction debris and other waste on public or private property…

Auburn requires residents to separate yard waste, leaves, grass clippings, straw and tree limbs, from metal and other…

Grass clippings, leaves, pine straw and small brush, defined as 'yard rubbish' under City Code § 4-3-1.1, must go…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, leaves and grass clippings go out in containers on the collection day the sanitation…

In the City of Dothan, yard trash piles and cuttings are collected curbside up to once a week, and City Code Sec. 82-20…

Hoover residents place tree branches, yard trimmings, and leaves loose at the curb for city pickup, no bagging…

Huntsville's sanitation division collects loose yard waste, tree limbs, and bagged leaves weekly at the curb, but tree…

Mobile collects yard waste as part of household trash under Sec. 25-6, picked up every other week. Leaves, straw, and…

In unincorporated Mobile County, yard trash counts as rubbish and gets picked up weekly, but Section 45-49-252.06 caps…

Small yard debris like hedge cuttings and limbs under four feet long or eight inches thick goes out with regular trash…

Yard waste too big to bag, limbs, brush, and shrubbery, must be cut to no more than eight feet long and eight inches in…

Code Sec. 14-31 caps tree limbs at four feet and 50 pounds, tree stumps at 50 pounds, and building debris at 50 pounds…

Section 45-49-252.07(f) requires mechanically serviced bulk containers, the roll-off dumpsters used at commercial and…

Commercial haulers licensed under Chapter 7 of the Tuscaloosa City Code need the city's written consent before setting…

Auburn requires every dumpster serving an apartment, townhouse or condominium development to sit on a hard surface…

Bessemer limits a business, commercial or industrial premises to four garbage or rubbish cans at a time. Once trash…

Birmingham businesses that need more than four garbage cans under City Code § 4-3-4 must instead provide a special…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, a large removable container such as a dumpster replaces garbage cans only with the…

Dothan's zoning code requires commercial dumpster enclosures to be four-sided structures that fully conceal trash…

Hoover bars refuse haulers from emptying dumpsters on property next to residentially zoned land between 10 p.m. and 7…

Huntsville requires commercial dumpsters to sit on a paved surface, stay screened from adjacent property, and never…

Mobile bars placing waste dumpsters in front yards, protection buffers, right-of-way or street frontages, and requires…

Businesses, apartment complexes and condominiums that use a contractor for garbage service have to place their…

Vestavia Hills bars dumpsters, trash and recycling containers from sitting forward of a building's front line under…

Auburn requires every occupied premises to subscribe to city refuse service, and residential garbage is collected once…

Only a city council franchised hauler may collect garbage or trash on Bessemer streets and alleys under Code of…

Every Birmingham dwelling, hotel, restaurant or store that generates garbage must keep enough approved containers on…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, the sanitation department or the city's contractor collects residential garbage not…

The City of Dothan collects ashes, garbage, household trash, and containerized yard trash from every residential…

Huntsville's sanitation division collects household garbage from every single-family home once a week on a…

Unincorporated Lee County runs a mandatory solid waste collection program funded through fees the Lee County Board of…

The city collects household garbage once a week and household trash (bulky/yard waste) every other week, with carts…

Only a county-franchised, permitted hauler may collect residential solid waste in unincorporated Mobile County, and…

Montgomery's sanitation department collects household garbage at least twice a week and rubbish, leaves, grass and…

City Code Sec. 16-92(b) requires every occupied residential premises in Tuscaloosa to subscribe to municipal garbage…

The Vestavia Hills sanitary department runs mandatory garbage and trash service for every single-family and multifamily…

Auburn requires recyclables to be set out for pickup exactly like trash: placed in front of the home behind the curb…

In the City of Dothan, Alabama, City Code § 82-123 sets the rules for the voluntary curbside recycling program…

Once you set recyclables at the curb, on city right-of-way, or in a city-designated bin in Tuscaloosa, they legally…

In the City of Decatur, Alabama, the recycling facility at the Decatur Morgan County Landfill charges nothing for…