Sanitation The Sanitation Division manages trash, recycling, and brush collection, including bulky items and white goods. They provide special services for residents unable to manage their trash and recycling carts, and provide sanitation-related code enforcement. Contact them to request set-out assistance, report missed trash pick-up, request trash or recycling roll carts, bulky item or white goods pick-up, dead animal removal, overgrown or junky yards or illegal dumping. Need to report a missed garbage collection? Contact the City of Asheville Customer Service Division at 828-251-1122. Disposal Locations Residents can take their waste items directly to the Buncombe County Landfill or Transfer Station for disposal. For disposal information call Buncombe County at 828-250-5460. For general Sanitation questions: sanitation@ashevillenc.gov. Contact Information For contact please view the Contact Information page Updated 12/12/2019 Related Services Dispose of large, seasonal or unusual items Information about disposing of large or unusual items such as furniture, household hazardous waste, or appliances. As well as instructions for brush, leaves, or Christmas trees. 3 Services Recycling guidelines Information on what can be recycled, how to prepare items for collection, and composting. 4 Services Reserve a bear resistant trash cart The City of Asheville is implementing a pilot program to provide bear-resistant trash carts to residents. There are a limited number of carts available for the pilot program and they are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Help fight litter Join the Adopt-a-Street Program to help reduce litter in the City of Asheville. Holiday schedule updates View holiday collection schedules to see how holidays will impact your recycling, trash, or other collection services. Keep bears out of your trash Useful tips for keeping bears out of your trash and co-existing with these curious creatures. Find your trash or recycling schedule Determine your trash and recycling collection schedules based on your address, view collection area maps, and print your schedule. More Related Services Sanitation News Recycling day changes to affect 1,400 customers Posted on December 23, 2020December 29, 2020 by Ashley Traynum-Carson Starting in January 2021, the recycling week (A or B week) will change for about 1,400 City of Asheville residents. The recycling DAY will remain the same, but the alternating WEEK will change. Residents who will be impacted by this change will receive a sticker on their cart notifying them of their new schedule, and those [...] How to dispose of — or recycle — that Christmas tree Posted on December 23, 2020December 16, 2020 by Polly McDaniel Whether you keep your tree up through the new year or take it down the day after Christmas, there is still the question of how to dispose of it properly. Christmas trees will be collected by the City of Asheville according to the routine brush collection schedule. Residents are asked to remove lights, tinsel, [...] Step up your recycling game this holiday Posted on December 16, 2020 by Polly McDaniel ’Tis the season — to recycle! Seriously, between now and the end of the year… Asheville, we love you, and you are going to generate a lot of….STUFF. You know, all those boxes and bags, tinsel and tags. As part of the City’s sustainability and trash-reduction goals, we certainly want to keep as much of these materials [...] More Sanitation News
Reserve a bear resistant trash cart The City of Asheville is implementing a pilot program to provide bear-resistant trash carts to residents. There are a limited number of carts available for the pilot program and they are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Holiday schedule updates View holiday collection schedules to see how holidays will impact your recycling, trash, or other collection services.
Keep bears out of your trash Useful tips for keeping bears out of your trash and co-existing with these curious creatures.
Find your trash or recycling schedule Determine your trash and recycling collection schedules based on your address, view collection area maps, and print your schedule.
Recycling day changes to affect 1,400 customers Posted on December 23, 2020December 29, 2020 by Ashley Traynum-Carson Starting in January 2021, the recycling week (A or B week) will change for about 1,400 City of Asheville residents. The recycling DAY will remain the same, but the alternating WEEK will change. Residents who will be impacted by this change will receive a sticker on their cart notifying them of their new schedule, and those [...]
How to dispose of — or recycle — that Christmas tree Posted on December 23, 2020December 16, 2020 by Polly McDaniel Whether you keep your tree up through the new year or take it down the day after Christmas, there is still the question of how to dispose of it properly. Christmas trees will be collected by the City of Asheville according to the routine brush collection schedule. Residents are asked to remove lights, tinsel, [...]
Step up your recycling game this holiday Posted on December 16, 2020 by Polly McDaniel ’Tis the season — to recycle! Seriously, between now and the end of the year… Asheville, we love you, and you are going to generate a lot of….STUFF. You know, all those boxes and bags, tinsel and tags. As part of the City’s sustainability and trash-reduction goals, we certainly want to keep as much of these materials [...]