Flagstaff, AZ Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

The Flagstaff City Council's solid waste chapter puts residential collection under the Public Works Director. Single-family properties are serviced by the City's automated cart system, with a minimum of one automated solid waste container and one automated recycling container required per dwelling unit, and collection runs at least once a week (Section 7-04-001-0008(A)(1)). Residents who cannot roll carts to the curb because of a disability, or whom the Director determines are otherwise unable to, get special roll-out service performed by Environmental Services employees, who also return the cart afterward.

Placement rules apply chapter-wide: automated carts must be at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on the scheduled day and pulled back in the same day the cart is serviced (Section 7-04-001-0008(D)(5)). Carts cannot be blocked by vehicles or other objects that would hinder pickup, and City-owned automated carts cannot sit within four feet of anything the automated arm on the collection truck could damage (Section 7-04-001-0008(D)(6)). Carts are assigned to the property, not the occupant, and no one may remove an assigned cart from that property.

The occupant is responsible for keeping the cart clean and sanitary and pays to replace it if loss or misuse by the occupant is the cause (Section 7-04-001-0007(G)-(H)). Multifamily properties (five or more units) can instead use bin service or a City-licensed hauler, at the Director's discretion based on unit count and waste volume (Section 7-04-001-0008(A)(2)). Recyclables are limited to the materials the chapter defines, and no one may disturb a container set out for collection or scavenge material from it (Section 7-04-001-0008(K)).