Provo is a city located near American Fork in Utah, United States. The Sanitation Division is here to provide trash, recycling, and solid waste collection services to the residents of Provo. The Sanitation Division will provide these services based on the location you live in.
Besides the Sanitation Division’s efforts to keep the environment of Provo clean, it is also the residents’ responsibility to cooperate with them to reduce trash in Provo. You have to follow the rules and regulations provided by the government to dispose of your trash properly to ensure cleanliness in your area.
Find Your Collection Day
If you are searching for your trash and recycling collection schedule, click the link given below, and you will get a Provo city map with a search sign on the top right corner. Tap on that sign and enter your complete home address into it. In this way, you will get your garbage and recycling collection day. Both garbage and recycling carts will be serviced on the same day.
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Provo Garbage Collection
According to the rules of the Sanitation Division, place your garbage cart at curbside by 6 PM the night before your scheduled trash collection day. Place your cart in a way that its lid will open towards the street so that trash trucks can collect it easily. Moreover, leave almost 4 feet of space around your garbage cart.
Place only a closed-lid cart at curbside and roll your cart back as soon as possible once your trash is collected. In order to reduce litter, put all trash into plastic bags and then put the bags into the garbage cart. Similarly, do not add any sticky items into the garbage cart because they can get stuck in the cart and attract insects that could cause diseases.
Provo Recycling Collection
Recycling carts will be serviced on the same day as your regular garbage collection. To ensure your recycling pickup, place recycling carts at curbside by 6 AM on your designated day. Place recycling and garbage in separate carts. Put only empty, clean, and dry items into recycling carts, and do not add any contaminants or plastic bags into recycling carts because these materials disrupt the recycling process.
Acceptable recycling materials include cardboard, mixed paper, food boxes, aluminum cans, steel cans, drinking bottles, plastic and glass bottles, milk jugs with number 7, plastic containers with number 7, paper bags, and paper packaging. Do not add any irrelevant material into the cart; otherwise, your recycling cart will not be serviced.
Household Hazardous Material
As a resident of Provo, you are not allowed to put household hazardous trash into the garbage cart. You have to store them separately until their collection. Household hazardous materials include old computers, burned-out fluorescent light bulbs, or old lawn fertilizers and pesticides. If you have this type of trash and wish to get rid of it, bring all this material to the South Utah Valley Solid Waste District’s transfer station.
Spring and Fall Cleanup
During the spring and fall leaf season, the Sanitation Division will provide dumpsters for six weeks. The Sanitation Division will pick up all leaves and yard trash in these dumpsters free of cost. If you want to use these dumpsters to dispose of your spring and fall cleanup trash, contact the Sanitation Division, and they will inform you about the dumpster located nearby.
Provo Collection Holidays Schedule
Due to certain holidays, Provo City trash collection service will be delayed by one day for the whole week. If you observe these specific holidays on your normal trash collection day, then follow the schedule provided in the given table to place your cart at the curb to ensure your service.
| Holidays | Date and Day | Change in Collection Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | January 1, 2024, Monday | Your trash will be collected on January 2, 2024, Tuesday. Similarly, Tuesday’s collection will be done on Wednesday. |
| Memorial Day | May 27, 2024, Monday | Your trash will be collected on May 28, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Independence Day | July 4, 2024, Thursday | Your trash carts will be serviced on July 5, 2024, Friday. |
| Labor Day | September 2, 2024, Monday | Your trash collection will be scheduled on September 3, 2024, Tuesday. |
| Thanksgiving Day | November 28, 2024, Thursday | Your trash will be collected on November 29, 2024, Friday. |
| Christmas Day | December 25, 2024, Wednesday | Trash collection will be done on December 26, 2024, Thursday. |
If you missed trash day, don’t worry! Check out our guide on what steps to take next to ensure your waste is properly handled.
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