Montgomery, AL Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)
Key Facts
- Special bulk pickup fee
- up to $180.00 per load
- Regular trash limit
- one cubic yard per pickup
- Special-pickup threshold
- limbs/brush over 4 ft or 8 in
- Eligible items
- stoves, fridges, freezers, sofas, heaters
- Eviction leftovers
- containerized or dumpstered at owner cost
- No-fee property abatement
- $150.00 city administrative fee
Summary
Montgomery's sanitation department will haul away oversized brush, tree trunks and large appliances on a special schedule for up to $180.00 per load. Sec. 25-35(c) caps regular curbside trash at one cubic yard per pickup, so anything bigger, or an appliance, needs this separate arranged service.
Brush, tree trunks and large limbs over four feet in length and eight inches in diameter, and piles exceeding one cubic yard may be picked up on a special schedule as outlined by the superintendent or his agent. Charge for this service will be up to $180.00 per load. Items eligible for this service include but are not limited to stoves, refrigerators, freezers, sofas, water heaters, and other appliances.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27).
Full Breakdown
Regular curbside trash is capped at one cubic yard per scheduled pickup under Sec. 25-35(c), and anything heavier or larger has to go through the city's special bulk collection instead. That special schedule, arranged through the superintendent of the sanitation department or the superintendent's agent, covers brush, tree trunks and large limbs over four feet long or eight inches in diameter, along with piles that exceed one cubic yard. 00 per load for the pickup. Property owners dealing with household contents left behind after an eviction face a related rule under Sec.
25-35(d): those items must be containerized if placed in the public right-of-way, and the owner has to remove them or put them in a dumpster at the owner's own expense, since owners aren't allowed to just leave furnishings and household goods at the curb. Where a property doesn't have a garbage fee on file at all, Sec. 00 administrative fee, collectible through court action if needed.
Violations & Fines
There's no separate criminal fine written into Sec. 25-35(c) for skipping the $180.00 special-pickup arrangement, but leaving bulk items at the curb without scheduling the service, or outside the eviction and no-fee procedures in Sec. 25-35(d)-(e), exposes an owner to city abatement plus the $150.00 administrative fee on top of the actual cleanup cost, collectible through municipal court.
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