Recycle Your Old Electronics
Give a gift to the environment: recycle TVs, computers and other electronics, keeping them out of the landfill.
See the holiday collection schedule for 2010
Quick Tip:
Looking for your junk pick up dates for 2010?
Go here and enter your address.
Or view our 2010 Junk Collection Schedule (3mb PDF file)
Winter Hours at the Waste Reduction Center
Starting December 22 the Waste Reduction Center hours of operation will be:
Tuesday Friday 8:00 am til 5:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am till 3:00 pm.
These hours will be in effect until May 2010
Junk Pickup in Louisville's Urban Services District
2010 JUNK COLLECTION DATES
There will be two scheduled junk pickups in the Urban Services District during calendar year 2010.
Please use our "MyLouisville" mapping tool to put your address in and find your pickup dates. Just go here. Residents may also call MetroCall 311 to confirm your set-out period.
Information regarding junk your set-out period and pickup date for the second half of 2010, should be available by early June. Please check back.
Residents in all areas of Louisville can take up to three household items, at no charge, to the Waste Reduction Center at 636 Meriwether Avenue.
Welcome to the Louisville Metro
Public Works & Assets Department
Solid Waste Management Division
We offer a variety of services that make waste disposal both convenient and environmentally sound. We provide garbage, yard waste, recycling and junk collection in the Urban Services District and promote waste reduction and recycling throughout Louisville Metro. Private waste haulers, regulated by the Metro Waste Management District, provide household waste removal in the Suburban Areas.
We are governed by the Louisville Metro Solid Waste Ordinance (pdf) and enforce the provisions contained therein. Our division provides direct services to the citizens of Louisville Metro and supports many department, agency and neighborhood functions with our personnel and equipment.
In addition, the department is an integral part of the Louisville Metro Snow Removal Program and is responsible for some 700 miles of roadway in the Urban Services District.
Garbage is collected and delivered to the local landfills. Grass, leaves and other yard waste are collected separately from garbage and delivered to a local compost facility.
Recyclables are collected at curbside in the urban area as well as staffed and unstaffed drop-off sites located throughout Louisville Metro. Items are processed and marketed to businesses that use recycled materials to produce new products.
We hope you find the information contained on this website helpful and take full advantage of our services. Please phone MetroCall at 311 or 574.5000 or Contact Solid Waste if you need additional information.
Thanks for visiting us!
Ted A. Pullen, P.E.
Director
Department of Public Works & Assets
444 S. 5th Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone - 502.574.5810
Fax - 502.574.5924
Keith S. Hackett, Division Director
Metro Solid Waste Management
600 Meriwether Avenue
Louisville, KY 40217
Phone - 502.574.3571
Fax - 502.574.4155