Austin Resource Recovery customers receive twice-per-year collection of bulk items.
Bulk Items Include:
• Doors
• Carpet
• Furniture
• Appliances (remove doors)
• Passenger car tires (remove rims; limit eight tires per household)
• Lawn mowers (remove gas/oil)
• Railroad ties (cut in half)
• Pallets
• Rolled fencing
• Nail-free lumber
This list is not all inclusive, please visit the What Do I Do With..? page (on the City of Austin, Austin Resource Recovery website) to see if your item is collected during bulk collection.
Bulk Item Collection Crews Cannot Collect:
• Brush, household trash, cardboard boxes, hazardous materials, mirrors, automotive chassis and bodies, motorcycles, trailers, boats and tires that are still mounted on rims
• Sheet glass and other construction and remodeling debris

Extra bags of trash that do not fit in your trash cart with the lid closed must be placed next to the trash cart and tagged with an Extra Trash Sticker, which can be purchased at H-E-B, Randall's and most local grocery stores for $4 + tax. Extra bags without a sticker will be charged a per-bag fee of $9.60 + tax. If you find that you often set out extra bagged garbage, consider switching to a larger cart for $15 (plus applicable monthly cart fee).

This is a list of battery drop off locations. Only batteries will be accepted at these locations. DO NOT put any other items in bags with batteries. These locations are not equipped to handle other types of waste. *Please call first to make sure the location is actively participating in the program. Locations change often.

Bi-weekly Recycling Routes throughout the City of Austin

Areas of the City of Austin not serviceable by Austin Resource Recovery.

The City of Austin Brownfields Revitalization Office partners with local governments and other associations to support the revitalization of brownfields. Brownfield revitalization is a way to return a property to the community as a greenspace or as a commercial, residential or mixed-use development. Brownfields are abandoned, idle or under-utilized properties where revitalization is hindered by real or perceived environmental contamination. Brownfields are real property, where the expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. The column with ftp folder # corresponds to another posted dataset Brownfield Site Data which provides links to supporting documents for each of the sites.

Brush Collection Routes for the City of Austin

Austin Resource Recovery daily report providing waste collection information based on the following categories:
Report Date: The date collections information was recorded.
Load Type: The specific type of load that is being collected on that day.
Load Weight: The weight (in pounds) collected for each service on the day it was delivered to a diversion facility
Drop off Site: The location where each type of waste is delivered for disposal, recycling or reuse: TDS Landfill indicates the Texas Disposal System landfill located at 12200 Carl Rd, Creedmoor, TX 78610; Balcones Recycling is a recycling facility located at 9301 Johnny Morris Road Austin, TX 78724; MRF is a Materials Recycling Facility (such as Texas Disposal Systems or Balcones Recycling); Hornsby Bend is located at 2210 FM 973, Austin, TX 78725 and accepts food scraps, yard trimmings, food-soiled paper and other materials collected by ARR, and combined with other waste to produce nutrient-rich dillo dirt, used for landscaping.
Route Type: The general category of collection service provided by Austin Resource Recovery
This information is used to help ARR reach its goals to transform waste into resources while keeping our community clean. For more information, visit www.austintexas.gov/department/austin-resource-recovery

During the City's Employee Commute Reduction Program, Austin Resource Recovery partnered with the non-profit Movability Austin to create a Mobility Plan for the department in order to further reduce on peak commutes and emissions caused by single occupancy vehicles. One major strategy to achieve this goal was to implement a telework pilot. ARR developed a telework policy and provided training to all participating employees and their managers. The telework pilot ran from February 8, 2016, to May 6, 2016. During this time, measures were taken regarding employees' schedules and commute habits as well as miles driven and estimated MPG of their cars in order to calculate emissions. Surveys were also taken to gauge employee satisfaction and productivity associated with teleworking. After reviewing the data and results from the pilot, ARR Director Bob Gedert approved the telework pilot to make it an official departmental program in July, 2016.