Warwick, RI Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Collection hours
- 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. barred without written OK
- Sunday/holiday hours
- No collection before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
- Excluded properties
- Businesses and complexes over 3 units
- Governing sections
- §§ 22-37, 22-38, 22-39, 22-43
- Disability accommodation
- City collects from location if resident disabled
Summary
Warwick's department of public works runs mandatory curbside trash collection for residential dwellings on a set schedule, but collectors may not work between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. on Sundays and holidays, without written authorization from the director.
Sec. 22-39. - Collection from residential dwellings. The city shall provide trash collection and related services for residential dwellings. Sec. 22-43. - Hours of collection. No person, firm or corporation shall collect garbage, debris, rubbish or waste of any kind between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. without prior written authorization of the director of the department of public works of the city; provided, however, that on Sundays and legal holidays no garbage, debris, rubbish or waste of any kind shall be collected before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m.
Full Breakdown
Sec. 22-39 commits the city to providing trash collection and related services for residential dwellings, and Sec. 22-37 directs the director of public works to schedule that pickup and issue departmental regulations governing it; the director may refuse collection at a property that violates those regulations. The mandate has real limits. Sec. 22-38 excludes industrial and business establishments, and any apartment or condominium complex of more than three units in a single location, from city pickup entirely: those properties must arrange private hauling acceptable to the director.
Sec. 22-40 backs that line up by making it a violation to use city collection to dispose of garbage, debris, rubbish or recyclables that don't originate from residential use, or to misrepresent where waste came from; violators face the chapter's penalties and covered businesses must still comply with Sec. 22-38. Timing is fixed by Sec. m. Anyone unable to place rubbish curbside because of a disability, with no tenant or family member able to do it for them, can have the director's department collect from wherever the rubbish sits, per Sec. 22-33.
Violations & Fines
Violations of this article are punished as provided in Sec. 22-10, per G.L. 1956 § 45-6-6.2, with each day of noncompliance a separate offense. The director of public works may also simply refuse further collection service at a property that ignores departmental regulations issued under Sec. 22-37, and misrepresenting waste as residential to obtain free city pickup is a separate violation under Sec. 22-40.
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