City of Dallas Department of Sanitation Services
- Area
- Whole city (all single-family homes and duplexes)
- Phone
- 3-1-1 inside city limits; 214-670-5111 from outside city limits; Sanitation Administrative Office 214-670-3111
- Website
- dallascityhall.com
Garbage (gray cart) and recycling (blue cart) are each collected once a week. Brush and bulky items (bagged leaves and grass, limbs, furniture) are picked up at the curb once a month, up to 10 cubic yards; set them out Thursday through Sunday before your collection week. In the 2025-26 holiday weeks, brush and bulky pickup kept its normal schedule. The City's calendar shows no brush and bulky collection Nov 30 to Dec 4, 2026, a fifth-Monday week, but garbage and recycling still run that week. Starting Feb 1, 2027, about 6,000 homes in roughly 200 alley blocks (about 2% of customers) move from alley to curbside collection, keeping their collection day, and tiered rates start: $37.76 for curb and $45.22 for alley, replacing $40.09. Two transfer stations (drop-off sites) are temporarily closed, Southwest (Westmoreland) Oct 14 to Nov 8, 2026 and Northeast (Fair Oaks) Oct 28 to Nov 15, 2026; curbside pickup isn't affected. The City's authorized private hauler list (Jan 22, 2025) covers commercial and multi-family properties only and includes Republic Services, Waste Management of Texas, Community Waste Disposal, Advantage Waste Disposal and others.