Troy, MI Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

9 governs how much refuse the city's regular pickup actually covers. For residential premises, once the owner, occupant, or user accumulates more than two cubic yards of refuse within any one-week period, arranging and paying for private collection and disposal becomes that person's own responsibility rather than the city's. Commercial and industrial buildings work off a different unit: up to four bags or cans per week qualify for curbside collection, and each of those cans is capped at a 35-gallon size limit and 60 pounds; once a commercial or industrial owner or occupant exceeds four bags or cans per week, private arrangement and expense again fall on them.

3(1) backs this up by requiring every owner, tenant, or occupant to provide adequately sized, clean containers to hold refuse between the weekly scheduled collections in the first place, so the volume cap is paired with a duty to actually contain what accumulates rather than let it pile up loose.