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If you are a Salt Lake City resident, chances are you will need to wheel your garbage cans to the curb on a different day come February.
For the first time in 35 years, Salt Lake City is redoing its weekly curbside waste, recycling and yard waste collection schedules in a move city officials say will improve efficiency and reduce service disruptions related to weather, holidays or other events
The changes are set to start Feb. 3.
If your pickup day is now Monday, that will shift to Tuesday, while residents whose green, blue and brown bins now get emptied on Tuesday will change to Monday.
Pickups that currently happen on Wednesday will move to Friday, and Friday pickups will shift to Wednesday.
If Thursday is your day — primarily folks in Central City, Liberty Heights and environs — nothing changes.
Household mailers have already gone out to most residents. City crews plan to affix notices to residents on their garbage cans as well. The city also has an interactive map, at www.slc.gov/pickup, that lets viewers search for new pickup days by address.
Officials said the realignment for four of the city’s five collection zones reflects several decades of development and population growth in Utah’s capital that has boosted demand for garbage services and trash volumes.
“We are building efficiency and resilience through this that really improves not only our customer service but the well-being of our workforce, too,” said Chris Bell, director of the city’s waste and recycling division. “It’s really a twofold win-win for residents and for our team.”
Nearly 80% of roughly 42,000 residential property owners and some small businesses that rely on municipal garbage services will have to change their current routines in a move meant to shift the heaviest weekly workloads for city crews to the middle of the week.
The new schedule does not affect apartments buildings or businesses with private dumpsters, nor does it alter the availability of the city’s “Call 2 Haul” program, in which residents can schedule larger curbside pickups in advance.
Select residents who participate in voluntary monthly curbside glass recycling through third-party Momentum Recycling will also be assigned new pickup days, with more information to be sent to individual customers shortly via text and email.
Reminders on the new pickup days will to be sent for about a month after the new schedule takes effect.
