Washington trash & recycling 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the trash & recycling category residents of Washington have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 13, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 13, 2026
Total Requests
814.0K
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
6.3K
April 2026
Share of total
37.4%
of all Washington 311 requests
Median Resolution
6.1d
half of requests close faster
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Washington 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 Washington’s raw 311 feed, the following 11 service_type values roll into trash & recycling:
- Bulk Collection
- Christmas Tree Removal - Missed
- Container Removal
- Missed Curbside Compost Collection
- Recycling Cart Delivery
- Recycling Collection - Missed
- Sanitation Enforcement
- Scheduled Yard Waste
- Supercan - Delivery
- Trash Cart - Delivery
- Trash Collection - Missed
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <washington_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Bulk Collection',
'Christmas Tree Removal - Missed',
'Container Removal',
'Missed Curbside Compost Collection',
'Recycling Cart Delivery',
'Recycling Collection - Missed',
'Sanitation Enforcement',
'Scheduled Yard Waste',
'Supercan - Delivery',
'Trash Cart - Delivery',
'Trash Collection - Missed'
)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 Washington’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 13, 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 maps2.dcgis.dc.gov.