Waterbury, CT Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Enforcing agency
- Board of Public Works
- Waste types covered
- Type 1 garbage and Type 2 noncombustibles
- Covered properties
- Private dwellings and households citywide
- Excluded properties
- Hotels, motels, nursing homes, 10+ unit buildings
- Governing section
- Waterbury Code of Ordinances § 50.04
- Penalty basis
- Fine set in annual fee schedule, § 41.11
Summary
Waterbury's Board of Public Works must collect and dispose of household garbage and noncombustible waste from every private dwelling under City Code § 50.04. The Board, not a fixed calendar in the ordinance, sets the actual storage, collection and removal regulations, while commercial and larger multifamily properties arrange their own removal.
The Board of Public Works shall establish regulations regulating the storage, collection and removal of wastes on or from public or private property whether the storage, collection or removal is done by the city or by private owners or operators. ... (A) Private dwellings. (1) The Board of Public Works shall regulate the storage of Types 1 and 2 wastes at all private dwellings and households and shall be responsible for the removal and disposal of Type 1 and Type 2 wastes from all private dwellings and households.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-8: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through September 8, 2025).
Full Breakdown
04 splits residential collection duty from commercial duty. 01) and for actually removing and disposing of both from every private dwelling and household. 04(A)(3) is real estate with one or more dwelling units, but the term excludes hospitals, motels, hotels, nursing homes, condominium units under Conn. Gen. , property with no public-street frontage, and apartment complexes or buildings of ten or more units, all of which fall outside mandatory city pickup. 04(B) shifts the burden for commercial, business, industrial and nonresidential property to the owner, though the Board may still remove Type 1 and 2 waste there if its collection system has capacity.
The section traces to 1967 Code § 8-20/§ 8-21 and was last amended by ordinance on 5-11-1992. 03, not spelled out in the code text.
Violations & Fines
Section 50.04 carries a 'Penalty, see § 50.99' cross-reference. Under § 50.99(A), violating Board of Public Works regulations adopted under this subchapter is treated as an act of nuisance, punishable by a fine set in the schedule of fees, charges, penalties and rewards attached to the city's annual budget under § 41.11. Each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense, and under § 50.05 the Board can order an owner to immediately remove waste disposed of outside its rules.
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