Washington trash & recycling 311 requests
Trash & Recycling 311 requests filed in Washington since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 13, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 13, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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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 defined
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 data, the following 11 service_type values are counted as 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 an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at maps2.dcgis.dc.gov.