Holiday schedule updates
View holiday collection schedules to see how holidays will impact your recycling, trash, or other collection services.
Department: Sanitation
Keep Bears Out of Your Trash
Useful tips for keeping bears out of your trash and co-existing with these curious creatures.
Find a recycling location
View an interactive map of recycling locations where certain items may be taken in person for recycling.
Dispose of household hazardous waste
Rules and instructions for disposing of hazardous household waste safely.
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.
What can I recycle?
Learn about what items can be recycled in the City of Asheville, and how to prepare them for pickup.
Asheville residents asked to bag leaves in sturdy paper
Dear Asheville, We’d like you to offer you a new solution for leaf collection this season: paper bags! They are so totally useful — compostable and more eco-friendly. Below is a guide on how to use them effectively, with as little hassle as possible to you, our residents. Thank you, City of Asheville Q&A Question: Why use paper bags for leaf [...]
Be ‘bear wise’ to deter urban bear encounters
Buncombe County bears are on the move, looking for food before winter sets in. The City of Asheville would like to remind our residents to be aware of their surroundings and know what to do if they encounter a bear in an urban setting. Because a bear recently attacked a Swannanoa woman, N.C. Wildlife Commission staff [...]
Dispose of leaves, brush, or Christmas trees
Collection schedules and information on how to prepare tree limbs, leaves, or shrub trimmings for pickup.
Fourth of July: Change in Sanitation schedule, holiday bus service, plus information about downtown fireworks
Fireworks explode over the City of Asheville in this photo by Bill Rhodes. Sanitation schedule shifts, ART buses to run on holiday schedule Asheville City government offices will be closed Wednesday, July 4, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Trash and recycling collection Asheville Sanitation will be closed July 4, as the local landfill and transfer stations will be closed. [...]
City of Asheville offices closed for Memorial Day, ART buses to run on holiday schedule
Asheville City government offices will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. Though City offices will be closed, Sanitation services will run on schedule. Trash and recycling will be collected as normal on May 28. The Sanitation Division will not collect brush on Memorial Day and there will be no scrap [...]
Be bear wise: Keep them out of your yard by reducing their exposure to food sources
With spring, Buncombe County bears get on the move. Normally shy, they’re hungry and they have baby bears to feed. Problem bears are rare in the City of Asheville. But the City is getting calls about some bears getting into trash cans. More than a third of the calls N.C. Wildlife Resources get about bears statewide come [...]