West Melbourne Trash Pickup

Curbside trash, recycling and yard waste in West Melbourne are collected by the city's contracted hauler, Waste Management, and the city bills the service at $27.76 a month for a single-family home (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page; West Melbourne new service page).

Missed pickups, cart swaps and bulky item appointments go to the service line the City of West Melbourne lists, 321-723-4455 (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page). Every home gets three carts, one each for trash, recycling and yard waste, and a truck with a curbside lifting arm empties each one in about 15 seconds without the driver leaving the cab (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page).

The charge rides on the city utility bill with water and sewer. The monthly rate includes one garbage, one recycle and one yard trash container, and each additional container is $8.33 (West Melbourne new service page). Billing questions go to West Melbourne utility customer service on the first floor of City Hall, 2240 Minton Road, at 321-837-7750, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; card payments carry a 2.95 percent fee with a $1.95 minimum, while cash, check and checking-account Auto Pay carry none (West Melbourne Utility Services page).

Trash goes out twice a week in every West Melbourne neighborhood, either Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday, with recycling and yard waste each collected once a week on a day set by subdivision (West Melbourne Neighborhood Service Days page).

The letters in the first column are only labels for this table; the city page lists each group under its day pattern and names more subdivisions than this table shows (West Melbourne Neighborhood Service Days page). Two neighborhoods split along a street: Cannova Park south of Henry follows the Monday trash and yard waste, Thursday recycling pattern, while Cannova Park north of Henry and Clements Wood north of Fell follow Tuesday and Friday. Melbourne Village Gardens and Mintons Corner sit in the Tuesday recycling, Friday yard waste group (West Melbourne Neighborhood Service Days page).

A neighborhood not on the list is a reason to call before the first set-out. The West Melbourne FAQ confirms the design: residents wheel out the trash cart twice each week and the recycling cart on one of the scheduled trash days (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

West Melbourne uses three carts: trash in the green lid, loose single stream recycling in the yellow lid and yard waste in the brown-lid 96-gallon cart (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page).

The recycling cart takes plastic bottles, jugs and tubs; aluminum, tin and steel cans; newspaper, office paper and junk mail; cardboard; and glass, all mixed together and never bagged. The West Melbourne page lists what does not belong in it: propane tanks, needles, cords and wires, hangers, holiday lights, dirty diapers, electronics, batteries, garden hoses, bubble wrap, plastic sandwich bags, to-go containers, chip bags, paper towels, and scrap metal and auto parts (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page). Shredded paper is the classic surprise: the FAQ says to bag it and put it in the garbage cart (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

Trash must fit inside the green-lid cart, since anything outside it is left behind, and the West Melbourne FAQ encourages bagging household trash to keep the cart clean. Batteries, oil, pool chemicals, propane tanks and hot coals stay out of it (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs). Small branches, leaves, grass clippings and palm fronds go loose in the yard waste cart with no ground piles, because bagged yard waste is not accepted at the Brevard County Landfill (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page).

Carts must be at the West Melbourne curb by 6 a.m. on the service day and brought back the same day after they are emptied (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

The solid waste page adds that the night before is fine, and asks that each cart sit at least 3 feet from other carts, mailboxes, cars and trees, with the lid opening facing the street and the wheels toward the house (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page). The FAQ explains why: a different truck collects each cart, the automated arm cannot turn a cart around, and a cart dumped backwards can break its lid. It also asks West Melbourne drivers not to park at the curb on collection days, and warns that bags or boxes stacked on a lid will not be collected (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

Cart size can change. The 96-gallon cart holds up to 200 pounds; the 64-gallon cart, 24 inches wide and 41 1/2 inches high, is the size the FAQ calls most appropriate for most homes; and a 36-gallon cart suits one or two person West Melbourne households short on storage. A cart exchange costs nothing, a second trash cart carries a small additional fee, and a resident with a disability who cannot roll carts can, with evidence of the disability, get service from where the carts are stored at no extra cost (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

West Melbourne has no collection on Memorial Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

When a service day lands on one of those holidays, trash and carted yard waste wait for the next regularly scheduled collection day, while recycling is picked up on the next business day (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs). The service days page also links a holiday schedule for checking a specific date (West Melbourne Neighborhood Service Days page).

Storm season brings its own question. A West Melbourne cart that blows over on a windy day remains the resident's responsibility to clean up, though the FAQ says the carts withstand side winds up to 50 mph and the hauler cleans up spills caused by its own collection (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

West Melbourne runs a separate weekly collection for bulky items, white goods and large yard waste, booked through Waste Management at 321-723-4455 at no additional cost (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

The FAQ lists stoves or refrigerators with the doors removed, hot-water tanks, furniture and other large household items that cannot be broken down. Construction refuse, demolition refuse and hazardous waste are not part of that collection (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs). For yard work that outgrows the brown-lid cart, a clam truck makes a separate pickup when requested at the same number (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

Cart problems follow the same route. A cart damaged by the truck or by normal wear is replaced at no charge, a stolen cart is replaced free, damage from negligence or abuse falls on the resident, and carts stay with the house when a West Melbourne household moves (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

Hazardous household waste from West Melbourne goes to Brevard County, which accepts it at no cost with proof of residency (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs).

The West Melbourne FAQ sends pressure treated lumber to the county household hazardous waste site at 2240 Adamson Road, Cocoa, by self-haul only (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs). The Brevard County Solid Waste Management Department runs the landfills, transfer stations, a mulching facility and the household hazardous waste collection centers, and it oversees curbside collection only for residents of unincorporated Brevard County (Brevard County Solid Waste Management Department); inside West Melbourne, service requests go to the city's hauler (West Melbourne Solid Waste and Recycling page).

Recycling is a state priority as well as a city one. The West Melbourne FAQ credits automated carts with raising recycling rates, which it notes the State of Florida requires (West Melbourne solid waste FAQs), and section 403.7032 of the Florida Statutes set a long-term goal of recycling at least 75 percent of municipal solid waste by 2020 (Section 403.7032, Florida Statutes).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the West Melbourne solid waste, service days, FAQ, new service and utility pages, the Brevard County solid waste home page and section 403.7032.