Port St. Lucie Bulk Waste Pickup

Port St. Lucie collects bulk waste once a month, on the same weekday as the address's regular garbage, recycling and yard waste service (Port St. Lucie Bulk Waste page).

Because the monthly bulk day is tied to the household's regular route, the Bulk Waste page sends residents to the city's online pickup-day lookup by address and also posts a downloadable Bulk Waste Calendar as a PDF (Bulk Waste page). The pile belongs at the curb on the pickup day itself, according to the bulk guidelines (Bulk Waste guidelines). The Office of Solid Waste works from City Hall, Building A, on Port St. Lucie Boulevard (number 121 SW), on weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Collection Schedule page).

The Trash and Recycling guide for Port St. Lucie covers the weekly carts, recycling rules and holiday shifts that this guide leaves out.

Each Port St. Lucie household may set out up to two cubic yards of bulk waste per month, which the city compares to two standard front load washers (Bulk Waste FAQ).

A Port St. Lucie pile over the 2-cubic-yard limit is tagged and left at the curb, and removing it then becomes the property owner's job (Bulk Waste guidelines). The city's do and don't examples ask for items neatly stacked rather than heaped, and every pile and cart must sit three feet away from anything that could block the truck: carts, mailboxes, utility poles, trees and fire hydrants (Bulk Waste page).

The Port St. Lucie FAQ defines bulk waste as items too large to fit inside the garbage cart and lists barrels, crates, wood and furniture among them, in addition to the appliance and furniture examples in the guidelines (Bulk Waste FAQ). Cardboard boxes are the exception: the city asks for them to be broken down and placed in the green recycling cart (Bulk Waste page).

Port St. Lucie bulk crews take household furniture, mattresses and appliances but refuse tires, tanks, engines, concrete, large limbs and hazardous materials, several of which the St. Lucie County Baling and Recycling Facility accepts for a listed fee (Bulk Waste page).

The curbside column follows the Port St. Lucie Bulk Waste page and the rate column the St. Lucie County Waste Fees page. The city's refused list also includes bagged household garbage, auto, boat, RV and trailer parts, engines, gas-powered equipment that would need its fuel drained, acetylene and helium tanks, oil paint, and hazardous products down to smoke alarms and detectors (Bulk Waste page). Hazardous materials and electronic waste go to the same county facility without charge for Port St. Lucie residents, per the city's hazardous waste page (Household Hazardous Waste page).

Extra bulk pickups are booked through 1PSL at 772-871-1775, option 5, at a rate the City of Port St. Lucie negotiated of $18.50 per cubic yard for pickup and disposal (Bulk Waste FAQ).

The same 1PSL call can be used to ask for an estimate before booking, and the Bulk Waste FAQ notes that residents remain free to hire any disposal service and schedule a pickup on their own timing (Bulk Waste FAQ). The closed drop-off center's notice repeats the same $18.50 extra-pickup offer and 1PSL number (Convenient Drop-off Center notice).

Once a Port St. Lucie monthly pile over the limit has been tagged, the Bulk Waste guidelines leave its removal to the property owner to arrange (Bulk Waste guidelines).

Since the city's own drop-off site on SW Cameo Boulevard closed for good on Jan. 5, 2026, Port St. Lucie residents who self-haul use the county facility at 6120 Glades Cut-Off Road in Fort Pierce (Convenient Drop-off Center notice).

The city's Oct. 1, 2025 announcement, reposted on the closure notice under the headline Solid waste drop-off center to close Jan. 2026, saving $2M annually, cited declining usage and the financial impact of keeping the 1501 SW Cameo Boulevard site operating (closure notice). The notice tells residents to bring a valid ID or driver's license as proof of residency at the county site (closure notice).

The St. Lucie County Waste Fees page is the source for the hours, payment rules and contacts above; it also lists a Class 1 garbage rate of $79.00 per ton with a $10.00 minimum, clean wood at $25.00 per ton, and a vehicle or trailer weight line of $10.00 each. Waste requiring special handling is billed at $100.00 per ton with a $100.00 minimum, and the posted rates took effect February 1, 2025 (county Waste Fees page).

For a Port St. Lucie household weighing the options, the city's pages name these options for items beyond the monthly pile: the $18.50 per cubic yard extra pickup through 1PSL, a private hauler of the resident's choice, or a self-haul trip to Glades Cut-Off Road with proof of residency (Convenient Drop-off Center notice). Hand unloaders face the earlier scale cutoffs shown in the county's listing (county Waste Fees page).

Port St. Lucie halts all solid waste collection once tropical storm force winds are forecast within 96 hours, and bulk items go back to the curb only after the storm has passed (Severe Weather Waste Tips).

Port St. Lucie storm guidance says the post-storm rule on curbside waste, as judged by the National Weather Service, explicitly covers bulk waste such as furniture, mattresses and white goods (Severe Weather Waste Tips). The same page asks residents to stop construction projects that produce debris that could become projectiles (Severe Weather Waste Tips).

Port St. Lucie residents pay for trash and recycling once a year on the property tax bill, through a solid waste assessment with a collection part and a disposal part (Solid Waste assessment page).

The assessment page ties the collection part to the city's franchise agreement with FCC Environmental Services, LLC, and the disposal part to St. Lucie County landfill fees that rose starting October 1, 2025; the city says it negotiated a better disposal rate than the county first proposed, saving about $45 per Port St. Lucie household (Solid Waste assessment page). It describes the charge as an existing annual assessment for solid waste collection, disposal and recycling, not a new one (Solid Waste assessment FAQ).

Assessment amounts and the tax bill itself are covered in the Port St. Lucie property taxes guide. Last verified: October 22, 2026: pile limit, extra pickup rate, county fees, facility hours and the closure date were rechecked on the city's Bulk Waste, Collection Schedule, drop-off, hazardous waste, storm and assessment pages and the county fee schedule.