Fort Worth Environmental Services provides weekly curbside trash and recycling collection. Residents receive a 96-gallon trash cart and a 96-gallon recycling cart. Collection occurs on a set day each week based on your address. Carts must be placed at the curb with lids closed and handles facing your home by 7 AM on collection day. Excess trash that does not fit in the cart can be placed in bags beside the cart. The city does not collect hazardous waste curbside.
Fort Worth contracts with waste haulers or operates municipal trash collection on a weekly schedule. Residents receive assigned pickup days. Bins must be placed curbside by the designated morning time, typically 6 to 7 AM. Holiday delays shift pickup one day. Contaminated recycling bins may be skipped. Oversized or overweight bins will not be collected. Contact Fort Worth public works for schedule changes or missed pickup reports.
Failure to follow schedule may result in missed pickup. Repeated violations of bin rules may incur $50 to $200 fines from code enforcement.
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