Sanitation Division

"Your Reliable Service Provider"

The Sanitation Division helps to create a healthy environment for the City of Winston-Salem by the removal of waste materials to a sanitary location. In addition, we promote and advance waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.

Do you have feedback for us about the service you receive?
Please fill out the Customer Service Survey   

• Are you Cart Smart?? Answer the questions and find out!  
• Watch video about the rollout recycling program 
• Need an exemption?
• Request backyard collection of recycling due to physical or other limitations - print and mail in form [pdf/1p] 
• Request backyard collection of garbage due to physical or other limitations - print and mail in form [pdf/1p]  
• LEAF COLLECTION ADDRESS LOOKUP 
• Find your recycling and garbage pick-up days  
• Televisions, Computer Landfill Ban    
• Yard-waste truck ad opportunity [pdf/2p] 
• Holiday Collections schedule for 2013 
• Plastic bottles banned from landfills
• FAQ about the plastic bottles ban and other information 
• Track the Brush Collection routes 
• What does a Sanitation Laborer do? [video] 
• Listing of helpful web pages for homeowners/renters 

Yard-waste carts

GRASS, LEAVES, STICKS ONLY - NO GARBAGE ALLOWED.

• A new yard-waste cart is $65 if you picked up or if delivered to your home. Call City Link at 727-8000 to order a new yard cart to be delivered to your house.
• Yard-waste carts can also be purchased and picked up at 1550-A Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive at the city warehouse between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. You will need enough space in your vehicle to hold the 96-gallon cart.
• Pay with check, credit card, or money order.
• An annual collection fee of $60 is charged for each cart and can be paid and renewed online; a new yearly sticker will be mailed to you. The sticker is valid for July-June.
• Renew your yard cart sticker online
• Read more about Yard-waste Carts