Louisville trash & recycling 311 requests

Trash & Recycling 311 requests filed in Louisville since January 2021.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2021 through April 12, 2026

Source data: ArcGIS ↗

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Total Requests

214.5K

in the trash & recycling category

Latest Month

1.9K

April 2026

Share of total

22.1%

of all Louisville 311 requests

Median Resolution

7.0d

half of requests close faster

Monthly trash & recycling requests

How many trash & recycling 311 requests Louisville 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 Louisville’s raw 311 data, the following 8 service_type values are counted as trash & recycling:

  • DAMAGE GARB CART
  • GARBAGE MISSED
  • Large Item Appointment
  • RECYCLE BINS
  • Solid Waste Container Request
  • Solid Waste Missed Services
  • Solid Waste Violation
  • Trash

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <louisville_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'DAMAGE GARB CART',
  'GARBAGE MISSED',
  'Large Item Appointment',
  'RECYCLE BINS',
  'Solid Waste Container Request',
  'Solid Waste Missed Services',
  'Solid Waste Violation',
  'Trash'
)

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 Louisville’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 services1.arcgis.com.