Calgary trash & recycling 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the trash & recycling category residents of Calgary have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
231.8K
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
5.0K
March 2026
Share of total
11.0%
of all Calgary 311 requests
Median Resolution
2.0d
half of requests close faster
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Calgary residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as trash & recycling: Missed garbage pickups, recycling and composting issues, bulk-item collection, cart maintenance, and household hazardous waste.
In Calgary’s raw 311 feed, the following 6 service_type values roll into trash & recycling:
- GFL - Black Cart Collection
- WRS - Cart Management
- WRS - Compost - Green Cart
- WRS - New Service - Carts
- WRS - Recycling - Blue Cart
- WRS - Waste - Residential
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <calgary_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'GFL - Black Cart Collection',
'WRS - Cart Management',
'WRS - Compost - Green Cart',
'WRS - New Service - Carts',
'WRS - Recycling - Blue Cart',
'WRS - Waste - Residential'
)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 Calgary’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.calgary.ca.