Pasco County, FL Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Pasco County doesn't run its own residential trash trucks in the unincorporated area; it franchises the work to licensed private haulers and sets their minimum service levels in Chapter 90, Article II. Section 90-47 requires each licensed hauler to provide curbside collection of normal household solid waste at least twice a week and recyclable materials at least once a week, with routes and specific collection days on file with the county. Separately, § 90-47 also requires haulers to offer, and upon request actually provide, service for the separate collection of containerized yard waste, white goods (appliances) and bulky waste and other large discarded items, at least twice annually, with rates conforming to the CPI-indexed rate rules in § 90-48.

Containers used for this material must meet the county-approved, lidded, insect- and rodent-resistant standards in § 90-33, and 'yard waste' under § 90-31 covers vegetative matter from landscaping and yard maintenance such as tree and shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds and tree limbs under five feet long and eight inches in diameter; smaller cuttings that fit that description also qualify as ordinary 'processable waste' collectible with regular trash. Larger material, or land-clearing and tree-cutting debris, falls outside the yard-waste definition and is handled separately.