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Arkansas trash pickup is run by cities, counties and private haulers, not by the state, and your pickup day comes from your city’s or hauler’s own lookup. Among the largest cities, Little Rock, Fayetteville and Fort Smith collect curbside themselves. Arkansas has a ban on yard waste in landfills, but no statewide bottle deposit, PaintCare paint, mattress or electronics recycling program.

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The largest Arkansas cities and their official collection pages:

  • Little Rock: Solid Waste Division, City of Little Rock Department of Public Works. Garbage and yard waste are collected weekly and recycling every other week, with yard waste collected the business day after your garbage day. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
  • Fayetteville: City of Fayetteville Recycling and Trash Collection Division. The city is divided into four sections and residential routes are collected Monday through Thursday, with trash, recycling and yard waste collection starting at 5 a.m. Official page ↗
  • Fort Smith: City of Fort Smith Department of Solid Waste Services, Residential Division. Each single-family home up to a fourplex gets one city-owned trash cart at no cost, and carts must be at the curb by 7:00 AM on the collection day. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗

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Who collects in Arkansas

  • Arkansas is divided into regional solid waste management districts, and DEQ tells residents to contact their district with questions about local garbage disposal or recycling opportunities. Source ↗
  • State rules require each regional solid waste board to designate at least one recyclable materials collection centre or system in every county of its district, accepting three or more materials. Source ↗

National haulers (Republic Services, WM, Waste Connections) hold contracts in many places; the city or county names the hauler for each street.

State-level rules

  • Container deposit: No statewide container deposit law. NCSL says ten states and Guam have beverage container deposit systems, and Arkansas is not one of them. Source ↗
  • Paint: Not a PaintCare state. PaintCare says it operates programs in twelve states and the District of Columbia; Arkansas is not among them. Leftover paint goes through the local household hazardous waste program; see paint. Source ↗
  • Mattresses: No statewide mattress take-back program. The Mattress Recycling Council says its Bye Bye Mattress program operates statewide only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. See mattresses. Source ↗
  • Electronics: No statewide electronics law. DEQ says the Legislature gave it authority to ban e-waste from municipal solid waste landfills beginning in January 2010 but that the ban has not been put into place, so residents may dispose of e-waste with other household items unless their local landfill restricts it. Source ↗
  • Yard waste: Banned from landfills statewide. Arkansas Code 8-6-220 makes it illegal for yard waste (grass clippings, leaves and shrubbery trimmings) to be placed in a solid waste management facility solely for disposal, except for fugitive amounts. Source ↗

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Flag of Arkansas

Flag of Arkansas. Public-domain artwork. Source. Resized to 480 pixels wide.

Materials with their own rules

Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees

Neighboring states

Louisiana · Missouri · Mississippi · Oklahoma · Tennessee · Texas

Sources

Official pages used: adeq.state.ar.us · adeq.state.ar.us · littlerock.gov · littlerock.gov · fayetteville-ar.gov · fortsmithar.gov · fortsmithar.gov · ncsl.org · paintcare.org · mattressrecyclingcouncil.org · adeq.state.ar.us · arkleg.state.ar.us · adeq.state.ar.us.

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