Toronto trash & recycling 311 requests
Trash & Recycling 311 requests filed in Toronto since January 2024.
Current release
Data through March 31, 2026
Data from January 2024 through March 31, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
119.2K
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
3.0K
March 2026
Share of total
11.0%
of all Toronto 311 requests
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Toronto 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 Toronto’s raw 311 data, the following 9 service_type values are counted as trash & recycling:
- Curb Day Collection - Complaint - Solid Waste Management
- Replace Missing Residential Organic Bin
- Res / Garbage / Not Picked Up
- Res / Organic Green Bin / Not Picked Up
- Residential / XMAS Tree / Not Picked Up
- Residential Bin Body or Handle Damaged
- Residential Bin Lid Damaged
- Residential Furniture / Not Picked Up
- Residential: Garbage Bin: Missing
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <toronto_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Curb Day Collection - Complaint - Solid Waste Management',
'Replace Missing Residential Organic Bin',
'Res / Garbage / Not Picked Up',
'Res / Organic Green Bin / Not Picked Up',
'Residential / XMAS Tree / Not Picked Up',
'Residential Bin Body or Handle Damaged',
'Residential Bin Lid Damaged',
'Residential Furniture / Not Picked Up',
'Residential: Garbage Bin: Missing'
)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 Toronto’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2024 through March 31, 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 open.toronto.ca.