Pinellas County, FL Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum frequency
- Once per week
- Greater frequency
- Only by mutual agreement
- Disposal site
- 3095 114th Ave, St. Petersburg
- Scope
- Unincorporated Pinellas County only
- License required
- County license under § 106-250
- Complaint line hours
- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays
Summary
In unincorporated Pinellas County, county-licensed haulers must collect single-family residential trash curbside at least once a week under Code § 106-258(3), though a hauler and customer can agree to more frequent pickup. All collected waste must go to the county's solid waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue, St. Petersburg, under § 106-258(4).
Any person holding a license issued by the board of county commissioners for the collection, transport and disposal of residential solid waste curbside from single-family residences as provided in this article shall comply with the service standards of this section. The license holder shall:...(3)Provide curbside collection services for single-family residential solid waste at a frequency of not less than once per week, unless the license holder and customer mutually agree upon a greater frequency.(4)Dispose of all residential solid waste at the county's solid waste facility located at 3095 114 th Avenue, St. Petersburg, Florida 33716.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 124).
Full Breakdown
Section 106-258 sits in Article V of the Pinellas County Code, which licenses anyone who collects, transports or disposes of curbside residential solid waste from single-family homes of four units or less in the unincorporated county, the area outside St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Dunedin, Tarpon Springs and the county's other cities. Subsection (3) sets the baseline pickup schedule: not less than once per week, though a license holder and an individual customer may agree to a greater frequency. Subsection (4) requires the hauler to deliver everything it collects to the county's own solid waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue, St.
Petersburg, rather than a private landfill or transfer station of the hauler's choosing. weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays; subsection (6) requires a separate yard-waste pickup at least once a week, with an extra fee allowed; and subsection (7) requires bulky-item pickup on terms the hauler and customer negotiate. A license under section 106-250 is a prerequisite to operating at all, and every applicant must certify under section 106-251 that it has read and will follow these standards before the county's division of solid waste will issue the license.
Violations & Fines
A hauler that misses the weekly minimum or dumps collected waste outside the county's designated facility risks license revocation under section 106-256: the division of solid waste files written charges, the board of county commissioners holds a public hearing within 30 days on ten days' notice, and the board's resolution can modify or revoke the license after finding a violation.
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Sources & Official References
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