Hillsborough County, FL Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Hillsborough County Code Sec. 130-21(j)(1) makes residential collection service mandatory for all single-family residential units, with one exception: units not located on a publicly maintained roadway. Even that exception narrows sharply for platted subdivisions, because the same subsection makes service mandatory again for single-family units on privately maintained roads inside a subdivision established under a recorded plat, as defined in the Land Development Code or the County's Minor Subdivision Regulations. A privately-roaded household under mandatory service must set its roll carts within two feet of the private road (six feet for yard waste and nonprocessable waste) next to its driveway, or move out to the nearest publicly maintained roadway.

Subsection (l) extends the mandate further: apartment complexes of four units or fewer, and single-family units attached to other structures, must also take residential collection, though they may switch to commercial collection service (self-hauling is not an option for them). Sec. 130-21(h) fixes the pickup frequency the County must run: two processable-waste collections, one recyclables collection and one residential yard-waste collection every week, each handled by a franchise collector awarded exclusive rights to a designated district under subsection (k). Exempted single-family units, those genuinely off the public-road grid, forgo the curbside service and the solid waste collection assessment but remain bound by every other requirement of Article II and may self-haul to a community collection center or a permitted disposal facility instead.