311 Call Center:311 or (313) 224-INFO (4636)
Approximately 300,000 residential households receive refuse collection services on a weekly basis. Each area of the city has assigned refuse collection on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
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Refuse Collection Dos and Don'ts
In order for everyone's waste to be regularly collected, each household should follow these dos and don'ts:
DO put your container at curbside by 7 a.m. on your pickup day, and remove it by 9 p.m.
DO NOT put your container out before 6 p.m. the day before your pickup day.
DO NOT put refuse outside of your container. Only items placed inside your container will be collected.
DO NOT place any unwrapped garbage, including liquids and food, inside the container. All refuse must be bagged before placing it in the container.
DO NOT overfill your container. All refuse must fit inside of the container.
DO NOT place concrete, yard waste, dirt, plaster or other heavy items in your container.
DO follow all refuse guidelines, or you could face fines up to $1,000 per day.
Yard Waste Collection
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 The Department of Public Works will pick up yard waste — leaves, grass clippings, and twigs — on the same day as your scheduled weekly trash collection. The yard waste collection begin in May through the first week in December (weather permitting).
DPW will collect Christmas trees during the first two week of January. Place trees near the Courville container on your weekly trash collection day.
All yard waste must be placed at the curb at least six feet from your Courville container in biodegradable paper bags or a personal garbage can. DPW will not collect yard waste in plastic bags. Residents who set out yard waste more than 24 hours before their scheduled pickup will be subject to a fine.
DPW encourages residents to mulch yard clippings and to compost all yard waste, leaves and vegetation matter. |
 DO place your yard waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on your weekly trash collection day at least six feet away from your Courville container.
DO NOT put yard waste out more than 24 hours before weekly collection day.
DO place your material in biodegradable paper yard bags, which can be purchased at a local hardware or grocery store. You also may place yard waste — not in bags — in a personal can (not to exceed 32 gallons).
DO put branches and twigs less than two inches thick into bundles not to exceed four feet in length. Do not tie the bundles.
DO NOT place yard waste in your Courville trash container.
DO NOT put yard waste in plastic bags.
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Container Storage
Pursuant to City of Detroit ordinance # 22-2-43
Residents must store their container on their property, in a location that is not visible from the street. The container cannot be stored at the curb, in the front yard or on the front porch. Storage in this manner allows the premises to be maintained in an orderly, aesthetically pleasing manner that will help the resident and the City in its efforts to keep Detroit clean. The container has a
hinged lid that opens and shuts easily and is designed to keep odors in, but rain and rodents out.
Holiday Schedule
If any of the following holidays is on or before your collection day, your service will be one day later:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Container Services
The unit also replaces stolen or excessively damaged containers. When your container requires repair (e.g., wheel handle or lid replacements), this unit also provides the required repair services only if the placement fee has been paid. You may call our 311 Call Center at 311 or (313) 224-INFO (4636) to request container repair services or a replacement container.
Stolen containers must first be reported to the Police Non-Emergency Reporting Section (313) 267-4600. You will be assigned a police report number. Secondly, call the 311 Call Center at 311 or (313) 224-INFO (4636) to request a replacement container. The Call Center staff will ask for your police report number when recording your request.
Dead Animal Removal
The division will collect dead dogs and cats from residential households and from city streets when reported to the City of Detroit 311 Call Center 311 or (313) 224-INFO (4636).
Dead animals should be placed at curbside for collection if you will not be home. Our collectors will not go onto private property to collect dead animals if no one is home to authorize access to the premises.
We do not collect dead animals from commercial locations.
To report dead animals, call 311 or (313) 224-INFO (4636).