The Garbage Services Division provides the following residential collection services:

• Once per week garbage collection
• Once per week small yard waste collection
• Once per week used motor oil and oil filter collection
• Once per week heavy trash collection

Regular Collection Schedule

Regular collection is route based. To get your pick-up schedule, call 409-842-1483

Tips for the best collection service

• Garbage containers must be placed curb side by 7 a.m. on collection day and removed from the curb by 8 p.m. on the same day. Residents should not leave garbage containers at the curb overnight following collection day.
• All garbage other than heavy trash items (old furniture, household furnishings, yard waste, etc.) must be placed inside your 90-gallon container for pick-up. Waste that is outside the container will not be collected, and could result in a ticket and fine.
• Items which could be reused should be donated to charity or other organizations whenever possible.
• We suggest that you don’t place odor-producing garbage such as seafood waste, meats and old foods, in your 90-gallon container until collection day. If possible, refrigerate or freeze these items, then place in container on collection day.

Heavy trash is collected weekly on your regular pickup day.  The service is limited to single-family residential customers. Heavy trash from any other entity must be transported to the landfill.

Heavy trash includes:

• Large yard waste (Limbs & branches up to 8-feet long, or cut to 8-foot lengths)
• Tree trunks larger than 12″ in diameter must be cut to a maximum two foot length
• Furniture and mattresses
• Appliances and miscellaneous heavy debris
• A maximum of four tires per year

Heavy trash is NOT collected by city crews from the following:

• Businesses
• Churches
• Apartment buildings
• Construction sites
• Vacant lots

Please note that two days are allowed for each area. All material must be stacked neatly in separate piles and not under low overhead utility lines or trees.

Citizens who live on a corner lot should stack bulk trash as far as possible away from the roadway intersection, while still stacking the trash on their property. These Citizens should make certain that all drivers who travel through the intersection in any direction have a clear unobstructed view.

No Services will be provided on the following holidays:

• New Year’s Day
• Fourth of July
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day

All other holidays are regular work days for collections and the landfill.

When any of the above listed holidays fall on a collection day, the collection schedule will shift to the following day. This will result in the last collection day being on the Friday of that holiday week. For instance, there will be no collection Thanksgiving Day (Thursday), therefore, the regular Thursday collection day will be moved to Friday.

Additional Containers

If one garbage container is not sufficient for your needs, additional containers are available.

• One additional 90-gallon garbage container $3.75/month
• Two additional 90-gallon garbage containers $7.50/month
• Three additional 90-gallon garbage container $11.25/month
• Four additional 90-gallon garbage container $15.00/month

To apply for additional containers, print and fill out the attached form, and either fax or bring it to the Garbage Services Administration office.

Application for Additional Container

Garbage Services Administration
4955 Lafin Road

409-842-1483
409-842-1722 (fax)

Additional containers will be delivered within two working days after receipt of application.