10/24/24 Cape Coral Residents Storm Clean-up

Waste Pro is working to ensure all trash and yard waste is collected according to the City’s guidelines! Here’s how you can help streamline the process:

Household Trash: Bagged and placed inside your brown cart with the lid closed. Extra trash must be containerized or bagged.

Yard Waste: Bundled, tied, and placed in paper bags or containers for pickup (no plastic bags).

Bulk: bulk items too large for your cart must be compliant. Visit https://bit.ly/3r9GcB0 for more details

Important reminders:

Separate household trash, yard waste, and hurricane debris into distinct piles.

Avoid placing debris near storm drains, mailboxes, power lines, or fire hydrants.

Larger hurricane debris may take extra time to collect, so please be patient as crews work through the area.

Residents can also drop off hurricane debris at these locations (proper ID required):

1821 SW 42nd St (Entrance off SW 19th Ave)

1119 NW 31st Ave (Entrance off NW 28th Pl)

2024 Holiday Schedule

In observance of these holidays, Waste Pro will not be collecting solid waste and recycling.

New Year’s Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

For the remainder of the week, service will occur the next day.

Monday moves to Tuesday
Tuesday moves to Wednesday
Wednesday moves to Thursday
Thursday moves to Friday
Friday moves to Saturday

For all other holidays, there will be no service interruptions.

Welcome

Temporary Change for Waste Pro Pickup Effective September 1

Waste Pro will begin picking up trash an hour earlier, beginning Friday, Sept. 1. Please place all items for collection curbside the night before or by 5 a.m. to avoid missing any collection vehicles.

City Council approved Ordinance 235-23, temporarily modifying Waste Pro’s collection schedule and noise exemption from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31, 2023. Due to unprecedented temperatures and heat index in Southwest Florida, Waste Pro requested that their drivers begin their collection routes one hour earlier at 5 a.m.

Trash totes should be placed curbside no earlier than 5 p.m. the day before your scheduled collection day. Carts should be five feet away from your mailbox, trees, fire hydrants, cars, sprinkler heads, or any other damageable property.

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Take Charge Lee County!

When certain batteries are improperly disposed of they can become a fire hazard. This is why we are asking our residents and visitors to take charge and learn more about proper battery disposal.

No batteries should go in your recycling cart.

Household alkaline batteries such as AA, AAA, C, D and 9 volt can all go in with your regular garbage

Button batteries for watches and hearing aids can also go in your regular garbage.

Nickel-cadmium and lithium-ion batteries found in cordless phones, rechargeable batteries like those found in cordless drills, and car batteries should all be taken to the Topaz Court Solid Waste Facility.

An increasing number of products contain Lithium-ion batteries, which is why Lee County Solid Waste is encouraging residents to be aware of these products before just throwing them out. These batteries can now be found in the following products:

Electronic devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets, computer peripherals, Bluetooth devices and smart wearables
Power tools
Remote car keys
Vaping devices
Game controllers
Digital cameras
Portable power packs
Greeting cards
Electric toothbrushes
Toys
Medical equipment
Smoke/Fire/Carbon monoxide detectors
E-bikes, e-scooters and hoverboards

Remember, no batteries should go in your recycling cart.

Regular Pickup Schedule

REGULAR PICKUP SCHEDULE

Residential curbside collection is provided one (1) time per week. Your collection day is based on your location. Click on the link below to see the collection day map.

Click here to see the collection day map.

All four (4) Residential services (Garbage, Recycle, Bulk and Yard Waste) with the exception for bulk/appliance special pickups are collected on the same day in Cape Coral. Please click on the appropriate menu item to the left for more informaton. All services start at 6:00 am so all items for collection need to be curbside by 6:00am. Each of the three (3) services are collected by a different truck and may be collected at any time after the 6:00am start time. This means that there is one (1) truck that collects nothing but the Brown Garbage cans, One (1) truck that collects nothing but the Green Recycle cans and one (1) truck that collects nothing but the Yard Waste.

Extra garbage that does not fit in the brown garbage can may be placed out for collection in plastic bags set next to the can. Each bag can not weigh more that fifty (50) pounds and be stacked neatly at the curb.

Remember to keep a three (3) foot clearance between and around each can for collection and that the wheels and handle are to face the house. Please remember to also keep at least a five (5) foot clearance from mailboxes, trees, parked cars, etc.

Commercial Recycling

Waste Pro provides Commercial collection and disposal service for all businesses in Cape Coral. We have a variety of collection containers and service ranging from garbage cans and mechanical dumpsters to open tops and compactors.

Mechanical dumpsters are available in two (2), four (4), six (6) and eight (8) cubic yard sizes.

Open tops are available from ten (10) to thirty (30) cubic yard sizes.

We can service your two (2) to eight (8) cubic yard Vert-I-Pack or your ten (10) to forty (40) break-away compactors.
Commercial service is available from one (1) time per week up to six (6) times per week.

Waste Pro offers a wide selection of Commercial Recycle service and containers, and we will customize a Recycle program to fit your business needs.

Residential Collection

ATTENTION CAPE CORAL RESIDENTS:

If your Waste Pro trash or recycling cart was damaged or displaced because of Hurricane Ian, PLEASE CALL the Citizens Action Center at 3-1-1 OR or 239-574-0425 to order a replacement bin.

Please note that it could take several months to receive your new bin, so please be patient.

In the meantime, trash may be placed in plastic bags by the curb no earlier than 5 p.m. the day prior to your regular trash collection day. Each bag cannot weigh more than 50 pounds and should be stacked neatly.

Recycling may be placed in an empty cardboard box with the words “RECYCLE” written large and clear enough for the driver to see set next to the can. Each box should be placed neatly at the curb and cannot weigh more than fifty (50) pounds.

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RESIDENTIAL COLLECTION

All Residential curbside services start at 6:00 AM, so please make sure that all items for collection are placed curbside by 6:00 AM to avoid missing any of the collection vehicles.

Waste Pro provides residential collection and disposal service for all household trash, garbage and recycle generated from residential customers which has been properly prepared and contained in the correct refuse container provided under the Automated Cart Program.

Waste Pro provides Residential Yard Waste (horticulture) collection and disposal service for all TRIMMINGS (branches and limbs from trees and shrubs), grass clippings, fallen fruit, leaves, weeds and palm fronds generated from residential customers which has been properly contained (bagged or containerized less than 50 lbs.) and placed curbside for collection. Branches and limbs from trees and shrubs are to be cut in lengths no more that six (6) feet long and tied up in bundles weighing no more than fifty (50) pounds and no more than 4 inches in diameter. Palm Fronds do not need to be cut down, bundled or tied. Just make one (1) single neat pile with nothing but palm fronds in the pile and a second neat pile with the rest of your yard waste that has been bundled and tied up. Small clippings, weeds, grass clippings, etc. may be put in your own personal garbage can that is no more that forty (40) gallons in size, has a weatherproof lid and handles on both sides or the brown paper bags you can purchase from local stores. Each can or bag of yard waste set out for collection can weigh no more than fifty (50) pounds. There is a charge for collection and disposal of land clearing debris. Please call Waste Pro at 239-945-0800 for more information.

CAPE CORAL CITY ORDINANCE

§ 9-18 Disposal of residue and rubbish of tree surgeons, fence companies, similar work.
It shall be the responsibility of all fence companies, tree surgeons, nurseries and landscaping contractors, or any individual or company doing work on private property, to remove from the premises all residue and rubbish resulting from the work.