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

Sec. 14-35(b) draws a hard line between the regular weekly cart and bulky household items. Discarded furniture, appliances and tires are always billed as a special pickup at the rate specified in the fee schedule on file in the city clerk's office, and any nonhorticultural pile, discarded furniture included, is capped at ten cubic yards per pickup; anything larger is not collected under this section. The same rule catches oversized horticultural loads: once a pile of branches or brush tops two cubic yards, it stops being ordinary yard waste and converts to a billed special pickup as well.

Tires get a rule of their own. Sec. 14-39 bars tires from a regular refuse container outright, and if a collection crew finds tires in or around a container, the container is treated as inaccessible under Sec. 14-36(b), meaning the crew skips it on that run and the customer either waits for the next scheduled day or pays for a special pickup to get it emptied. Sec. 14-38 adds a related housekeeping duty before any bulky material goes out: cardboard boxes and crates have to be collapsed and the container lid closed tightly, and a container blocked or overloaded so it cannot be emptied in the normal way is likewise treated as inaccessible.

A commercial customer's bulky or horticultural refuse outside its usual container is picked up only on request under Sec. 14-35(d), billed at the same special-pickup rate.