Garbage Services
For single family customers living in detached houses, mobile homes, many town homes, duplexes, triplexes and quadraplexes, garbage is picked up once a week, curbside and is the same as your recycling pickup day according to your schedule. Don't know your schedule? Go to YOU Online to look up your schedule by address or account number.
For non-recyclable, non-hazardous household waste place waste in bags for additional litter and odor control, then place in your garbage barrel.
Apartment customers primarily use a dumpster for garbage. Some small complexes may use garbage cans (due to space constraints).
Each apartment complexes' management decides that either their tenants will be billed for solid waste collection as part of the monthly City utility bill or their monthly rent will include solid waste charges. If each apartment is billed by the City, the monthly charge is $8.30. This fee covers collection and disposal of garbage and collection and processing of recyclables (if recycling has been set up by the apartment management), but not trash items. Ask your manager where to place old furniture and other bulky items, appliances, old bikes, Christmas trees, yard waste, etc. for disposal. These "trash" items, per Florida law, cannot be placed in garbage or recycling containers. The $8.30 fee does NOT include service for collection of trash items, so the complex's account will be billed for this special pick-up service.
Helping Hands Service
For our customers who live in a single-family home or town home and are physically unable to roll a recycling or garbage cart to the curb, Helping Hands Service provides weekly garbage pickups and the recycling pickup at the back door at no additional charge. If you believe you qualify, please complete the Helping Hands Request Application (PDF). If you are currently part of the Helping Hands program,you will automatically receive this service when services change beginning May 1, 2007.
What Do We Mean By Garbage?
Garbage means household waste such as:
- Food and other kitchen scraps
- Packaging that is not accepted in our recycling program, such as:
- Wax-coated or plastic-coated food containers (frozen foods, milk/juice cartons)
- Pizza boxes and other food-contaminated boxes
- Food wrappers (potato chip bags, flour bags, etc.)
- Foil and foil pie plates
- Plastic wrap, wax paper, butcher paper
- Plastic bags (although you can take grocery and department store bags back to special containers near the front doors of the stores for recycling)
- Plastic containers such as yogurt containers, butter tubs, cottage cheese containers, plastic forks, spoons, plates, etc. Our new plastics recycling program does take any plastic bottles, but not "squeeze tubes".
- Styrofoam ("peanuts," packaging, egg cartons, trays, cups, plates, etc.)
- Paper plates, paper towels, napkins, tissues
- China, ceramics, glassware, silverware
- Diapers
- Rags or clothing that is not suitable for donation to charity
Many of the items above can be Recycled, Beyond the Cart.