Las Cruces Utilities collects household trash once a week on your assigned service day using one-person automated trucks. Look up your day through the SCSWA/city Grappler Schedule tool, or call 575-541-2111. When your day falls on a holiday, collection slides to the next day.
The City of Las Cruces Utilities Solid Waste Department runs weekly automated collection for more than 31,000 residential customers, governed by Chapter 25 (Solid Waste) of the Municipal Code. There is no single citywide trash day. Each address has a designated route day, found through the Grappler Schedule lookup at the city/SCSWA portal or by calling Customer Service at 575-541-2111. Roll the brown City cart to the curb the night before or by 6 a.m. on your service day. Holidays push collection back: when a service day lands on a city-observed holiday, containers are serviced the following day, even Saturday. Bulky items go out monthly through the free grappler service, and recycling runs every other week.
Setting out garbage outside the City system, or letting refuse accumulate rather than using scheduled collection, is a nuisance under the Municipal Code. Overfilled or improperly placed containers are simply skipped and left unserviced until corrected.
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