Charlotte trash & recycling 311 requests
Trash & Recycling 311 requests filed in Charlotte since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
1.3M
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
8.6K
April 2026
Share of total
74.3%
of all Charlotte 311 requests
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Charlotte 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 Charlotte’s raw 311 data, the following 12 service_type values are counted as trash & recycling:
- CART DELIVERY RECYCLING
- CART ISSUE/MISSING CART
- CART PURCHASE 2ND-GARBAGE
- CART REPAIR-GARBAGE
- CART REPAIR-RECYCLE
- MISSED BULKY ITEM
- MISSED GARBAGE
- MISSED RECYCLING
- MISSED YARD WASTE
- NON_RECYCLABLE ITEMS
- RECYCLABLE ITEMS
- TIRES
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <charlotte_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'CART DELIVERY RECYCLING',
'CART ISSUE/MISSING CART',
'CART PURCHASE 2ND-GARBAGE',
'CART REPAIR-GARBAGE',
'CART REPAIR-RECYCLE',
'MISSED BULKY ITEM',
'MISSED GARBAGE',
'MISSED RECYCLING',
'MISSED YARD WASTE',
'NON_RECYCLABLE ITEMS',
'RECYCLABLE ITEMS',
'TIRES'
)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 Charlotte’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 12, 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 gis.charlottenc.gov.