Waste Management Recovering Routes from Last Week

Published on December 29, 2022

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Due to last week's winter storm and extreme cold, some residential trash and recycling routes were not fully completed on Thursday and Friday.

This week, Waste Management is working to collect residential trash and recycling that they could not collect on Thursday, December 22, and Friday, December 23. If your items were not collected on Thursday or Friday of last week, leave them at the curb. Waste Management anticipates completing the recovery of these items by the end of today, December 29.

The recovery effort is in addition to normal trash and recycling collection.

Residential trash and recycling are on a normal collection schedule for the week of December 25, so place your items at the curb or street edge by 7 AM on your regular day. When a public holiday falls on a weekend, residential trash and recycling collection is not delayed. Trash and recycling collection will also run on a normal schedule for the week of January 1, 2023.

To learn more about Solid Waste Management, read frequently asked questions, and view helpful tips, visit wycokck.org/Waste. To report a service issue, call 3-1-1 or visit mywyco.wycokck.org

On what holidays are trash and recycling not picked up?

There are six holidays on which trash and recycling are not collected:

  • New Year’s Day
  • Memorial Day
  • 4th of July
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day

On these holidays, the pickup of everyone’s trash is moved back one day unless the holiday falls on a weekend.

To find your trash day, visit maps.wycokck.org/TrashDay.html.

Trash & Recycling Tips

Has your trash or recycling pick-up been late? Is it your regular trash day and the cans are still full at the street? Before you report your items as missed, keep the following in mind:

  • Put your trash and recycling out by 7 AM.
  • Don’t report a missed collection to Waste Management.
  • Always report services issues to 3-1-1. Reporting to 3-1-1 allows Public Works’ Solid Waste Team to directly follow up with Waste Management to get your items off the ground.
  • If your trash was not picked up - don't take it back in! Leave your missed items at the curb or street edge until they’re collected. Bringing your missed trash or recycling back into your garage or placing it on the side of your house can result in it being missed again.
  • Sometimes recovering your missed items can take a day or two. Put your trash and recycling in sealed containers to keep it from spilling out and blowing all over your neighborhood. If your items still haven't been recovered after a day or two, report it again!
  • Sometimes trash and recycling are missed because crews are working hard to pick up bulky items. Bulky item collection slows everything down, so avoid putting bulky items out whenever possible. The faster drivers can collect trash and recycling at your neighbor’s house, the faster they can get to yours!
  • Please be patient. We know missed trash and recycling collection is frustrating, and Public Works' Solid Waste team is committed to working with Waste Management on ways to keep these misses from happening.