Winnipeg trash & recycling 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the trash & recycling category residents of Winnipeg have filed since January 2023.
Current release
Data through March 2025
Data from January 2023 through March 2025
Total Requests
39.0K
in the trash & recycling category
Latest Month
307
March 2025
Share of total
43.3%
of all Winnipeg 311 requests
Monthly trash & recycling requests
How many trash & recycling 311 requests Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into trash & recycling:
- Garbage & Recycling
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <winnipeg_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Garbage & Recycling'
)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 Winnipeg’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2023 through March 2025. 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 data.winnipeg.ca.