Buffalo trash & recycling 311 requests
Trash & Recycling 311 requests filed in Buffalo since June 2024.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from June 2024 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
48.7K
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
2.1K
April 2026
Share of total
31.5%
of all Buffalo 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.8d
half of requests close faster
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Buffalo residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as trash & recycling: Missed garbage pickups, recycling and composting issues, bulk-item collection, cart maintenance, and household hazardous waste.
In Buffalo’s raw 311 data, the following 8 service_type values are counted as trash & recycling:
- Bulk Trash Issue
- Garbage Missed Pick Up
- Missed Pickup; 2 Piece Large Trash
- Order Additional or Change Current Totes
- Recycling Missed Pick Up
- Recycling Tote Replace
- Replacement Garbage Totes Request
- Trash Ordinance Violation
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <buffalo_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Bulk Trash Issue',
'Garbage Missed Pick Up',
'Missed Pickup; 2 Piece Large Trash',
'Order Additional or Change Current Totes',
'Recycling Missed Pick Up',
'Recycling Tote Replace',
'Replacement Garbage Totes Request',
'Trash Ordinance Violation'
)Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'ARR -' (Austin Resource Recovery): 'ARR - Garbage', 'ARR - Recycling', 'ARR - Compost', 'ARR - Bulk', 'ARR - Household Hazardous Waste'. Calgary uses a mix of 'WRS -' (Waste and Recycling Services) and 'GFL -' (the contractor Green For Life). NYC doesn't break sanitation out into its own category in our mapping — expect NYC sanitation requests to appear under 'other' or 'street_cleaning'.
See how trash & recycling is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Buffalo’s official open 311 data feed, covering June 2024 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.buffalony.gov.