Austin bulk trash pickup: schedule, rules & how to schedule
Austin Resource Recovery offers on-demand bulk pickup for residential customers in single-family homes through fourplexes. You can schedule up to three bulk collections per calendar year. Appointments are required.
By appointmentFree or included
How pickup works
| Type | On demand, up to 3 times a year |
| Schedule | Book through the Austin Recycles app, online, or by calling Austin 3-1-1 (512-974-2000). After you book, you get an email confirmation and a reminder. Set items out by 5:30 a.m. on the appointment date. Appointments cannot be changed — cancel and book a new one if the date no longer works. |
| Limits | Up to three bulk collections per calendar year. Passenger car tires are limited to 8 per household, with rims removed. |
| Cost | The official on-demand collection page does not list a per-pickup fee for the three included bulk collections. |
| Who is eligible | Austin Resource Recovery residential customers: single-family homes through fourplexes. |
| How to set items out | Keep items 5 feet from carts, mailboxes, fences, meters, utility boxes, fire hydrants and parked cars. Do not place items under low-hanging limbs or power lines, in an alley, or in front of a vacant lot. |
How to book
Austin Recycles app, online scheduling, or Austin 3-1-1 at 512-974-2000.
Austin on-demand bulk collection →Phone: 311 or 512-974-2000
What they accept
Usually accepted
- Appliances (remove doors)
- Household carpet
- Doors
- Furniture
- Lawn mowers (remove gas and oil)
- Nail-free lumber
- Pallets
- Passenger car tires (rims removed; limit 8 per household)
- Railroad ties (cut in half)
- Rolled fencing
Usually not accepted
- Automotive chassis and bodies
- Boats
- Brush (use the separate brush collection)
- Cardboard boxes
- Carpet from construction or demolition
- Hazardous materials
- Household trash
- Mirrors
- Motorcycles
- Sheet glass and other construction and remodeling debris
- Tile
- Tires still mounted on rims
Mattresses
Mattresses are not named on the official accepted-items list. Confirm with 311 or the scheduling tool before you set one out.
Appliances (including Freon)
Accepted; remove the doors. Electronics are grouped with metal items and rigid plastics for set-out.
Tires
Passenger car tires only, rims removed, limit of 8 per household. Truck or tractor tires, and tires still on rims, are not collected.
E-waste
Electronics are mentioned as metal/rigid-plastic items that can be collected. Confirm in the scheduling tool.
If you would rather drop it off
Austin also runs a city drop-off center (appointment required) for recycling, electronics, appliances and household chemicals. See FindMyDump.
Find official landfills, transfer stations and drop-off centers in Austin on FindMyDump: Austin dumps and drop-off sites.