Trash and Yard Waste Pickup in Rockledge

The City of Rockledge collects its own household garbage, recycling and yard trash through the Sanitation Division of the Public Works Department, at 1400 Garden Road, phone 321-221-7540, open Monday to Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

Brevard County's Solid Waste Management Department runs the landfills, transfer stations, a mulching facility and the household hazardous waste centers, but it oversees curbside collection only for residents of unincorporated Brevard County (Brevard County Solid Waste Management). For a cart repair or a special pickup, the city's own page sends Rockledge residents to the Sanitation Division by phone (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

The Collection Schedules page carries a Daily Collection Schedule Map, a mobile friendly version, and the holiday schedule for the year, and lists the same Public Works office on Garden Road (Rockledge Collection Schedules). The city's general contact listing at 1600 Huntington Lane gives the same 321-221-7540 number, with 321-604-3017 as a second line (Rockledge Collection Schedules).

Household garbage in Rockledge is collected twice a week on one of two routes, Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday, while recycling and yard trash are each collected once a week on a day set street by street.

The city publishes a Residential Pickup Schedule by Street Name that lists, for every street, its yard trash day, recycle day, solid waste days and subdivision (Rockledge pickup schedule by street name). Long streets are split by address range, and some streets are marked NO HOMES or COMMERCIAL. Recycling and yard trash usually share a day, but not always: Arthur Ct and Avalon Dr in Avalon have yard trash on Monday and recycling on Tuesday (Rockledge pickup schedule by street name). Looking up the exact street, and the house number on a split street, is the only reliable way to know the days.

Source for the table: City of Rockledge Residential Pickup Schedule by Street Name. The PDF carries no revision date on its pages, so the Daily Collection Schedule Map on the city's Collection Schedules page is the second place to check (Rockledge Collection Schedules).

The wheeled garbage cart, which the city calls the HOBO, is for household garbage only and must be at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on pickup day and back from the curb by 7:00 p.m. the same day (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

The city defines household garbage as kitchen waste, other household waste and small items that fit inside the cart, and asks that garbage go in bagged, not loose (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page). The curb times are code, not courtesy: the city's code enforcement answer says the cart may not be left at the curb on non-pickup days and must be stored near the house the rest of the time, citing Rockledge Code of Ordinance, Chapter 22, Article II, Sec. 22-40(c) (Rockledge FAQ).

Keeping the cart clean is the household's job; the city suggests a pressure washer or bleach at least once a month (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page). A damaged cart is a different matter. Public Works will pick up a broken HOBO, repair it and return it, and there is no charge unless the cart has been abused (Rockledge FAQ). The city also warns that dumping household trash in a commercial dumpster is illegal and can bring a $500 fine or 60 days in jail, and points residents to a special pickup instead (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

Yard trash in Rockledge goes out on the street's yard trash day in two 32-gallon cans, then plastic bags once the cans are full, with large limbs and branches cut into four-foot lengths and stacked at the curb (Rockledge FAQ).

Yard trash never goes in the HOBO. The city's answer is blunt: garbage will not be picked up if yard trash is mixed into the household cart, because the landfill rejects loads that contain any yard trash (Rockledge FAQ). Bags of clippings are emptied by the crew and placed back in the container (Rockledge FAQ). The recycling cart is also off limits: the city states that no garbage or yard trash is permitted in the recycle cart (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

The yard trash day is listed for each street in the first column of the city's street schedule, separate from the garbage days (Rockledge pickup schedule by street name), and the holiday table further down shows how it moves when a holiday falls on it (Rockledge Collection Schedules).

The blue Rockledge recycling cart takes numbered plastic bottles and containers, paper and cardboard, aluminum, steel and tin cans, and clear or colored glass food and beverage containers, and it is emptied once a week (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet).

The City of Rockledge established its City-Wide Recycling Program in 1991, and calls itself the oldest city in Brevard County on the same sheet (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). Accepted plastics are #1 PET screw-top containers without caps, #2 HDPE narrow-neck bottles without caps, and #3 through #7 narrow and screw-top containers, plus empty prescription bottles; paper includes broken-down cardboard, cereal boxes, newsprint, magazines, junk mail and milk and juice cartons (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). Not accepted: microwave trays, mirrors, window or auto glass, light bulbs, ceramics, un-numbered plastics, plastic bags, coat hangers and glass bakeware (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet).

The cart goes out by 7am and comes back in by 7pm (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). Extra recyclables can go in a green bin set beside the blue city cart, as long as the city cart is out too, and a crew that finds unsafe or non-recyclable items leaves them in the cart with a green tag explaining why (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). Residents who move must leave the cart at the house (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). Apartments and condominiums get labeled multi-family containers next to the dumpster, and businesses can join for a nominal fee (Rockledge Recycle Pick-up sheet). One out-of-date detail: the sheet gives a Public Works number of 690-3961, while the Sanitation Division's current page lists 321-221-7540 (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

Rockledge runs a Special Pick-up every Wednesday for furniture, mattresses, construction debris and appliances, and items must be called in before noon on Tuesday; hazardous waste goes to the county's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center instead (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

Special pickups skip holiday weeks except Thanksgiving week. Items go curbside by 7:00am, appliances such as washers, dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators and freezers must have all doors removed, and crews cannot collect from garages, carports or backyards (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page). The call goes to the Sanitation Division at 321-221-7540 (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page).

Paint, tires, used oils, pool chemicals and other hazardous or biohazardous waste are not collected at the curb. The city sends residents to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center at (321) 633-2043 (Rockledge Garbage and Recycling page). Brevard County Solid Waste Management lists household hazardous waste collection centers among the facilities it manages, and electronics disposal, prescription drug drop-off and used household sharps among its services (Brevard County Solid Waste Management).

On an observed city holiday there is no pickup, garbage routes that week may move to other weekdays, and recycling and yard trash get a set make-up day, per the city's 2026 holiday schedule (Rockledge Collection Schedules).

Source for the table: City of Rockledge Collection Schedules. Thanksgiving week is the one to note: each garbage route gets a single pickup, and there is no recycling or yard trash make-up that week.

Last verified: October 21, 2026: pickup days, cart rules and the holiday table were checked line by line against the Rockledge Sanitation Division's collection schedule and garbage and recycling pages, the street-by-street pickup PDF, the recycle pick-up sheet, the city FAQ answers on carts and yard trash, and the Brevard County Solid Waste Management home page.