Yuma, AZ Trash Pickup Schedule
Collection days, holiday changes, recycling rules, and drop-off options for Yuma, Arizona — in one page, with sources.
Trash pickup in Yuma, AZ is assigned by zone or street — Monday, Tuesday. Match your area in the trash schedule table below.
Trash Recycle
When is each service collected?
Recurring schedule for Yuma services.
| Service | When | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Trash | Depends on your zone | Depends on your zone — check the zone list |
| Recycling | Thursday · Friday | Depends on your zone — check the Recycling zone list |
| Bulk | Depends on your zone | Depends on your zone — check the zone list |
Which zone is my street in?
Collection day by zone. Confirm at the edges with the city.
| Zone | Day | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Yuma Monday trash area | Monday | Monday trash-collection area per the city's AMR TrashCollection layer. |
| Yuma Tuesday trash area | Tuesday | Tuesday trash-collection area per the city's AMR TrashCollection layer. |
When is recycling collected?
Recycling day by zone — recycling runs on its own schedule, which can differ from trash. Confirm at the edges with the city.
| Zone | Day | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Yuma Thursday recycling area | Thursday | Recycling Pick-Up: Thursday per the city's AMR layer. |
| Yuma Friday recycling area | Friday | Recycling Pick-Up: Friday per the city's AMR layer. |
Service days by zone
The city publishes service-specific zone or cycle details rather than one shared date calendar.
What about bulky or special items?
Mattresses, appliances, storm debris — the rules before you set them out.
- Neighborhood cleanup rotation — Yuma runs an annual neighborhood cleanup: each of the 10 grid areas gets one scheduled week (late January through early April) for bulk/loose item set-out; dates windows are in the city Neighborhood_Cleanup layer.
- Neighborhood cleanup rotation — Yuma runs an annual neighborhood cleanup: each of the 10 grid areas gets one scheduled week (late January through early April) for bulk/loose item set-out; date windows are in the city Neighborhood Cleanup layer.
More details: bulk & yard waste page.
Who collects what?
The provider for each service and how to reach them.
| Service | Provider | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Trash | City of Yuma Solid Waste | |
| Recycling | City of Yuma Solid Waste | |
| Bulk | City of Yuma Public Works - Neighborhood Services |
Common questions
The things Yuma residents ask most.
What day is trash pickup in Yuma, AZ?
What day is recycling pickup in Yuma, AZ?
Thursdays and Fridays - the city states Blue Recycle containers are collected Thu/Fri weekly; the 29 mapped recycle routes split C (Thursday, 17 polygons) vs D (Friday, 12 polygons).
What changed recently?
Every update to this page, newest first.
- Record created from Yuma's city-server solid waste services (2 day zones + 26 trash routes + 29 recycle routes + 10 cleanup areas; downloads 2026-09-23).
- Holiday QA R6 (2026-09-24) INCONCLUSIVE: yumaaz.gov 403s live; archived garbage-and-recycle-collection page (Wayback 2023-05-06) MEASURED: pickup 'four days a week, excluding holidays', 6 a.m.-4 p.m. windows, and a 'Holiday Collection' section that was only links ('Residential Holiday Collection Schedule' doc NOT in Wayback; no holiday PDFs anywhere in CDX). No named holidays or shift rules machine-reachable.
- Added the annual neighborhood-cleanup (bulk item set-out) schedule from the city's cleanup map - it had gone missing from this page.
Population 100,858 · Sources: City of Yuma AZ AMR_Routes MapServer L0 TrashCollection (2 citywide d…, City of Yuma AZ PWSolidWaste MapServer (L3 Areas 1-10, L4 Recycle Rou…, City of Yuma AZ Neighborhood_Cleanup MapServer L0 (10 areas, 'COMPILE…, www.yumaaz.gov, gis.ci.yuma.az.us · Summarized from municipal, hauler, and public-data records; schedules change without notice.