Cocoa, FL Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Cocoa's bulk trash service is spelled out in the codified solid waste franchise agreement at City Code § 9-22. 7 defines 'Bulk Trash' as any non-vegetative item that can't be containerized, bagged or bundled, expressly naming inoperative and discarded refrigerators, ranges, toilets, washers, dryers, water heaters, sinks, bicycles, and similar household appliances, goods and furniture; the definition specifies that bulk trash isn't to be commingled with vegetative waste, keeping the two waste streams separate for disposal. On the service side, the contractor must provide collection and disposal for all bulk trash generated by residential customers regardless of whether the item is containerized, and non-vegetative bulk trash is picked up on a regularly scheduled day, one time every other week, a slower cadence than the weekly garbage and recycling runs.

The agreement carries a parallel commercial provision requiring the same every-other-week service for commercial customers' bulk trash. For multifamily properties the code adds a size limit: tree limbs collected as bulk trash have to be cut to lengths not exceeding four feet with a limited diameter, mirroring the caps the code applies to bulk vegetative waste elsewhere in the same section. Large vegetative debris that can't reasonably be cut down and placed in a garbage cart is treated as bulk trash for collection purposes when it meets those length limits, bridging the definitions of bulk trash and yard waste in the ordinance.