Trash & Recycling
How weekly trash, recycling, bulky pickup and missed-collection service work, and how to find your collection day.
The City of Fort Smith collects residential trash once a week. The catch most people run into: your collection day depends on your address, and the city sets it by route rather than by a simple map of zones — so the reliable way to learn your day is to look up your address or call. Here is what each kind of pickup covers and the rules that apply on every route. Solid Waste Services (SWSD): 479-784-2465.
Find your collection day
Fort Smith sets each address's collection day by route, and there is no public zone map. Look up your address on the city's trash-collection page, or call Solid Waste Services at 479-784-2465, and keep that day — it's the same every week.
Carts out by 7 a.m.
Have your cart at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your collection day, with roughly 3 feet of clearance around it so the truck's mechanical arm can reach it. The city also runs periodic citywide cleanup events for larger seasonal cleanouts.