Tucson is the second largest city in USA Arizona behind Phoenix, a city with a residential population of more than 1 million and hosting 7 million visitors annually.
In order to keep Tucson streets clean and to ensure a healthy environment for Tucson citizens and visitors as well, you have to cooperate with the city sanitation department.
There are some residential trash rules and regulations that you must have to follow in order to sustain the natural environment of Tucson city.
Tucson Residential Trash collection
Waste management services work differently in Tucson city, as a citizen of Tuson you have to order trash collection services through online form. You simply have to put your basic information (full name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number or email) in this form to order new services.
City waste management department will provide residential trash collection once a week.
Trash will be collected according to your location. Residential customers will charge a fee which is included in their utility services bills. Visit follow link in order to know your trash pickup day;
You simply have to follow some tips to place trash at curbside such as place your trash carts outside by 6AM on your collection scheduled day. Check your trash collection schedule first and place your trash outside otherwise you will be charged fine.
You should leave a space of 3 feet on both sides of your container, so that collection may not be interrupted due to any hurdle. Moreover you should have to place the container in a way that their lids must be opened toward the street.
Ally service for trash collection
There are some areas such as apartments and tall buildings, in which residents share a 30 gallon container, so if you are sharing ally trash collection, you are obligated to follow some rules as well. Such as you can not change the location of an ally.
Avoid putting bulky items and construction materials into ally containers, furthermore each resident is given with ⅓ part in ally containers, and make sure to use only your shared part in ally containers. Container lids should be positioned towards the middle of the alley.
Make sure the container lids are positioned towards the middle of the alley.
Suspension of service program
Tucson citizens can also suspend their EGSD trash and recycling collection program temporarily. Limit of suspension will be up to eight consecutive months. Waste management staff will collect your trash along containers at the start of your suspension time. Moreover, the waste department will charge a fee of 40$ for removal and re delivery of trash containers. If you want to receive trash and recycling pickup services, you simply have to follow the similar procedure to order trash pickup services.
Tucson Recycling Schedule
Recycling is the best option for saving resources, energy, and landfill space. The Waste Management authority of Tucson will provide a recycling trash pickup facility along typical trash pickup. If you have stuff that could be recyclable, you have to place that material outside along with your residential trash by 6AM on your trash pickup day.
Do check that the material you are putting in the recycle bin must be clean, dry, and empty. And do not put any plastic bags in the recycling trash carts because plastic bags are not accepted by tucson recycling department, avoid putting any glass and food scraps in the recycling green cart.
Click on the link below if you want to know about your trash recycling schedule:
Missed collection in Tucson?
If you come to know that your trash collection got missed due to any reason, you can report missed collection on 1-800-592-9995 from Monday to Friday between 7 AM to 7 PM and on Saturday between 9 AM to 1 PM. Waste management authority will recollect your trash within 24 hours of report.
Brush and bulky collection in Tucson
Program of brush and bulky items contributed much to keep Tucson more clear and attractive. Under the consideration of this program the waste management authority of Tucson will provide bulk trash collection service 2 times in a year.
You should avail this opportunity and clean stores, yard and garages in order to get rid of trash like stuff. Brush and bulky collection services will be provided according to your location where you lived In a city.
Click on following link to get your bulk trash collection schedule:
https://cotgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e69044c83515474287ced7d34d57ab16
Similar to solid trash you have to place all bulky items outside by 6AM of Monday of scheduled week. Once you put your trash outside according to the dates that are provided for bulk item pickup, wait gently because collection will be completed by the end of designated week.
If you want to avoid a fine, only place your bulky trash on the curbside on Monday of your collection week. Placing it earlier will result in a penalty.
Special Brush & Bulk Collection in Tucson
If you are having a lot of trash and you are unable to put it into landfill and your bulk trash collection scheduled date is so far. In this case you can call customer services at 520-791-3171 to request a special pickup of your bulky trash. Similarly you can also request for special bulk waste collection to the waste management authority by clicking the following link.
https://docs.tucsonaz.gov/Forms/EGSD-Report-Issues-Request-Services
A Special bulk trash collection will be charged 55$ for up to 10 cubic yards. And in case of additional cubic yards you are having with, you will charge 5$ extra for per extra cubic yard.
Observed Trash Holidays in Tucson
Due to the observed holidays mentioned below, the trash collection schedule will be delayed by only 1 day. For example if your trash pickup day is Friday and the country observes any national holiday on Friday, then your trash collection schedule will be done on Saturday. The Waste management Authority will reschedule your trash pickup day if you experience a holiday on your normal pickup day.
If holidays are observed on weekend days like Saturday and Sunday, then trash collection will not be affected and pickup will be done according to Normal schedule.Following are the holidays that Tucson observed annually;
| Holidays | Dates and day |
| New year day | (Monday, January, 1 2024) |
| Presidential day | (Monday, January, 15 2024) |
| Memorial day | (Monday, May, 27 2024) |
| 4rh of July | (Thursday, July, 4 2024) |
| Labor day | (Monday, September, 2 2024) |
| Columbus day | (Monday, October, 10 2024) |
| Veterans day | (Monday, September, 11 2024) |
| Thanksgiving day | (Thursday, November, 28 2024) |
| Christmas | (Wednesday, December, 25 2024) |
Household hazardous waste
Tucson waste management authority will provide a facility of disposing household medical waste, you simply have to drop these household products at a drop off station. Drop off events happen once a month on everything on the second Saturday of the month.
Every month an event will be scheduled from 8 AM to 12 PM. Citizens are appreciated to bring their Household hazardous waste, electronic waste and documents to dispose of.
Click on the following link to get HHW (household hazardous waste) schedule:
