Trash Day by Address
Type your address to see whether you're on the Monday/Thursday or Tuesday/Friday collection, when the bags can go out, and what the city will and won't take.
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Type your address to see whether you're on the Monday/Thursday or Tuesday/Friday collection, when the bags can go out, and what the city will and won't take.
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Starkville collects household garbage twice a week, and which two days you get depends on your street. Type your address and this tool reads the city's own collection map to tell you your days, then lays out the set-out rules that go with them.
Holidays change collections
Household garbage must be in bags. The sanitation ordinance also prohibits crates, corrals and similar containers built to hold bagged trash for collection (Sec. 94-30).
Starkville does not issue wheeled carts. The city hands out garbage bags to residents once a year, and if you use your own can the crew will take the bagged garbage out of it. No bag limit is published.
Bags go out no earlier than 5:00 a.m. on your collection day and must be gone before sunset — anything left at the kerb after sunset is a violation and can be fined. Put bags within five feet of the travelled portion of the street, without blocking the sidewalk. Other trash must not go out before sunset the day before.
Bagged leaves (ten bags or fewer), small trimmings and a single item like a chair or a microwave go out with your regular collection.
Ten or more bags of leaves, large trimmings, large appliances (fridges, stoves, washers, dryers, water heaters) and large furniture (sofas, recliners, mattresses, grills) are handled by a separate rubbish collection. The city publishes no schedule for it, so call 662-323-2652 to arrange or ask about a pickup — we would rather say that than invent a day.
Construction, demolition and renovation waste, property-clearance debris, stumps, logs, tree trunks, tyres, dirt, bricks, heavy rocks, paint, chemicals, oil, flammables, helium tanks and deceased animals are not collected at all. There is no commercial rubbish collection for businesses, churches or apartment complexes.
Recycling is drop-off only
Residential sanitation is $19.50 a month plus a $1.50 landfill fee, so $21.00 a month, billed with your Starkville Utilities account. Neither the utility's rate page nor the city's rate sheet prints an effective date; this is the figure as published, checked 26 July 2026.
The city publishes its collection zones as street lines rather than areas, so this tool measures which of those streets your address sits closest to and reads the days from it. On a street where the boundary runs down the road itself, your own street name decides it. When nothing near your address is clear enough to trust, the tool says so instead of guessing.
The collection map data comes from the City of Starkville's GIS, whose sanitation layer was last modified on 20 March 2023. The city publishes it for general reference and without warranty, and reserves the right to change or remove it at any time. If your days on the ground differ from what this tool says, the city is right and we would like to know — use the correction link at the foot of this page.
City collection stops at the city limits, and the collection map covers only streets inside them. If your address is outside the limits the city does not collect at your kerb, and the tool will say it cannot tell you rather than reading a nearby city street. Call Sanitation on 662-323-2652 if you are not sure which side of the line you are on.
Your days come live from the City of Starkville open-data map service: it matches the address you type against the city’s own address records, then reads the collection day from the nearest street on the city’s collection map. Where that reading isn’t clear enough to trust, the tool says so instead of guessing. The map can be revised at any time and is published for general reference; the official record is always the city garbage collection map.
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