Huntington is a city located in the southwestern corner of West Virginia, along the Ohio River’s southern bank, where the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers meet. The sanitation and trash division is responsible for providing trash-related services to the residents of Huntington. They perform duties to keep the city environment clean and healthy, offering all trash removal services based on location. However, they need residents’ support to perform their duties properly. Residents are recommended to follow all sanitation rules while disposing of their household trash to ensure cleanliness in Huntington.
Find Your Collection Day
If you’re unsure about your Huntington Garbage Collection Schedule and want to know your collection day, click the link below. A city map will appear with a search bar on the right corner. Enter your complete address with the street number, and hit the search button. This will provide your garbage, recycling, and yard collection day. Be sure to place your trash at the curb properly to ensure collection.
Also, check Virginia Beach Trash Schedule
Garbage Collections
Place all garbage into a city-issued garbage cart. If you have extra trash, put it in bags and place them next to your garbage cart. The weight of the cart must not exceed 50 pounds. Garbage collection begins at 6 AM, so place your cart by 5 AM on your collection day. You can also place your cart curbside after 7 PM the night before your scheduled collection day.
It is recommended to use only closed-lidded carts at the curbside. Do not overfill your cart, as overflowing trash can lead to missed collections. Position your cart in a place free from obstacles such as poles, mailboxes, and parked cars, which will allow automatic trash collection trucks to easily pick up your cart.
Leave a clearance of 4 feet on both sides of your cart when placing it. Do not place any non-household items, such as concrete, construction debris, yard waste, or bulk trash, into your garbage cart, as these items are not considered normal residential garbage. Roll your trash cart back by 12 PM on your collection day.
Recycling Collections
According to Huntington’s rules, recycling collection begins at 5 AM on your collection day, so place your recycling cart curbside before 5 AM. Only clean, empty, and dry items should be placed in your recycling cart to reduce spillage. Do not place any plastic bags into the recycling cart, as these are not recyclable and cause problems during processing.
Recycling materials are collected weekly. Acceptable materials include mixed papers, newspapers, magazines, mail, school papers, clean scrap paper, advertising circulars, cereal boxes (remove plastic liners), shoe boxes, toilet paper cores, paper towel cores, and flattened cardboard.
Other acceptable materials include glass jars, glass bottles, plastic bottles, and metal food and beverage cans. Do not add any non-recyclable material into your recycling cart, as it will lead to missed collection. Place all materials loosely in the cart.
Bulk Trash Collections
Bulk trash includes items weighing more than 50 pounds or that cannot fit into your residential garbage cart. Examples include furniture such as couches, sleeper sofas, mattresses, box springs, headboards, footboards, chairs, and sectional sofas (use duct tape to cover glass if necessary). Each piece is considered one bulk item. These materials require special handling. Residents can place up to four bulk trash items on every second garbage collection day of the week.
If your bulk trash includes mattresses, wrap them in plastic bags. If your bulk trash contains carpet, cut it into 4-foot lengths and roll it up before placing it at the curb. Similarly, cut railroad ties into 4-foot lengths before placing them curbside.
Yard Waste Collections
The city provides yard waste collection once a week, every Sunday. Residents can place up to 10 bags or bundles of yard trash at the curbside per collection. Exceeding this limit will result in missed collection, and homeowners will receive a notice to comply. Acceptable yard waste includes leaves, bundled branches, brush, plant trimmings, and tree limbs less than 5 inches in diameter.
Ensure yard waste is placed separately from household garbage to guarantee collection. Place your yard waste at the curb by 7 AM on your collection day. Follow the guidelines by cutting all branches into lengths of 3 feet and diameters of up to 3 inches, and tying them into bundles before placing them curbside.
Huntington Trash Holidays Schedule
Certain holidays will affect your normal trash collection day. If you observe these holidays, trash collection will be delayed by one day. For example, if the holiday falls on a Monday, your trash will be collected on Tuesday. Similarly, Tuesday’s collection will be delayed until Wednesday. This delay in trash collection will continue throughout the week until Friday. To ensure collection during holidays, place your cart at the curb according to the schedule below.
| Holidays | Date and Day | Change in Trash and Recycling Collection Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | January 1, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on January 2, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | January 15, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on January 16, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Presidents’ Day | February 19, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on February 20, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Memorial Day | May 27, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on May 28, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Juneteenth Day | June 19, 2024, Wednesday | No trash collection on Wednesday. Trash carts will be collected on June 20, 2024, Thursday. |
| Independence Day | July 4, 2024, Thursday | No trash collection on Thursday. Trash carts will be collected on July 5, 2024, Friday. |
| Labor Day | September 2, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on September 3, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Columbus Day | October 14, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on October 15, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Veterans’ Day | November 11, 2024, Monday | No trash collection on Monday. Trash carts will be collected on November 12, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Thanksgiving Day | November 28, 2024, Thursday | No trash collection on Thursday. Trash carts will be collected on November 29, 2024, Friday. |
| Christmas Day | December 25, 2024, Wednesday | No trash collection on Wednesday. Trash carts will be collected on December 26, 2024, Thursday. |
| New Year’s Day | January 1, 2025, Wednesday | No trash collection on Wednesday. Trash carts will be collected on January 2, 2025, Thursday. |
