Welcome to Republic Services of Sugar Land, TX
At Republic Services, we are committed to providing reliable and responsible recycling and waste disposal solutions day in and day out. We work to ensure safe and dependable solutions for your home, business, and community.
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Effective November 1, 2023, bulk service was changed from being "on-call service" to scheduled service once a month. Services will fall on either the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Monday of each month. To look up your bulk day please visit the
Additional holiday bulk pick-up
Residents have 3 additional bulk pick-ups after Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years based off the Monday bulk service day. Check the holiday schedule for these extra service days. The 2025 bulk schedule is coming soon.
Sugar Land, TX customer service
Garbage & recycling service, and missed pickups
Phone: 713-726-7307
Email: sugarland@republicservices.com
Customer service hours:
Monday – Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
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Start/stop service, billing, or mailing address changes
City of Sugar Land
Phone: 311 or 281-275-2900Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays. If your normal collection falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
New Year’s Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Service guidelines
Chose a topic below to learn more about proper recycling and disposal methods.
Access your account anytime to:
- Contact customer support
- Report a broken cart/request repair
- See your pickup schedule
- Notify us of a missed pickup*
- Schedule an additional pickup
- Sign up for service alerts
*Before reporting a missed pickup, please allow until 7 p.m. for our trucks to return to your street. It’s possible the driver was offloading material before continuing your route.
Service information and guidelines
Additional service guides coming soon.
Cardboard bulk pickup guidelines
The curbside bulk cardboard recycling service is provided on an on-call basis for quantities of cardboard that are too large to fit in your recycle cart. Bulk cardboard does not include Styrofoam™, packing materials, or any other non-cardboard items. The program is an additional enhancement to existing services.
To request an appointment for the curbside bulk cardboard recycling service, please contact Republic Services at sugarland@republicservices.com or 713-726-7307.
- Set your bulk cardboard at the curb by 7 a.m. on your appointment day but no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before.
- Please flatten cardboard boxes. This is not required, but highly recommended.
- Bulk cardboard should be placed no farther than four feet from the curb and at least three feet from other objects.
For questions about regular bulky pickup,
Additional resources
Recycling Simplified videos
Check out these 15-second videos for quick tips on recycling basics.
Take a virtual field trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip of how a recycling center and a modern landfill works. These videos are designed to inform specific lessons in 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade, but can also be used outside of those lessons to take your students on a journey through the process!
Recycling center video tour
3rd - 5th grade video is featured below
Kid's corner
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about recycling, and waste services in the City of Sugar Land, TX
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
- Place the trash cart at the collection point (street curb or alley) by 7 a.m. on your scheduled collection day to ensure pickup.
- If you place your trash cart out the night before collection, do not place it earlier than 6:00 pm.
- Place the cart at least two feet from your recycling cart or any other object that may impede the mechanical arm of the truck. (It is preferable to place the trash cart on one side of your driveway and the recycling cart on the opposite side.)
- Put trash in sealed plastic bags before placing it in the cart.
- Bags placed outside the cart will not be collected, except following a city-designated holiday.
- Do not put yard trimmings, corrugated cardboard boxes, recyclables, or chemicals in the trash cart - a separate collection is provided for these items.
- Do not place hot ashes in the trash cart. Once ashes are cool, place them in a sealed bag. Place the sealed bag in the trash cart for disposal.
Please call customer service at 713-726-7307 or use the online
Reasons waste may not be collected:
• Cart too far from the curb
• Cart facing the wrong direction
• Overfilled or overweight cart
• Insufficient space to service cart/car blocking the cart
• Unacceptable material in the cart
• Incorrect cart size
Please call customer service at 713-726-7307 or use the online
We observe the following holidays. If your normal collection falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
New Year’s Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
The curbside bulk cardboard recycling service is provided on an on-call basis for quantities of cardboard that are too large to fit in your recycle cart. Bulk cardboard does not include Styrofoam™, packing materials, or any other non-cardboard items. The program is an additional enhancement to existing services.
To request an appointment for the curbside bulk cardboard recycling service, please contact Republic Services at sugarland@republicservices.com or 713-726-7307.
- Set your bulk cardboard at the curb by 7 a.m. on your appointment day but no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before.
- Please flatten cardboard boxes. This is not required, but highly recommended.
- Bulk cardboard should be placed no farther than four feet from the curb and at least three feet from other objects.
Residents are encouraged to utilize the
Please remember to not place these materials in your garbage or recycling carts, as they should be disposed of properly. It is also important to note that household hazardous waste material placed at the curb with bulky waste will not be collected.
Recycling Questions
Please make sure your recyclables are
Please remove food waste, lids, and rinse containers.
Accepted items:
- Plastic - Water bottles, Take out containers, Soda Bottles, Detergent Containers, Bagged Film Plastics
- Glass - Clear, green, and brown glass bottles or jars
- Metal - All metal food and beverage cans (Aluminum beverage cans, food cans, steel food containers)
- Paper - Paper (staples okay), Newspaper, Envelopes, Catalogs, Magazines, Junk Mail, Phone Books, Brochures, Cereal boxes, and any other household paper products, including shredded paper (which must be put in a clear plastic bag before going into the container)
- Cardboard - Ream wrappers, File Folders, Poster Board, Frozen Food Boxes, Cardboard boxes (folded flat), Milk Cartons, Chipboard
Please do NOT place these items in your recycling cart:
Appliances and electronics - please consider donating- Bubble wrap
Batteries or electronics - Clothing & Shoes -
please consider donating - Construction waste
- Diapers
- Drinking glasses, other glassware
- Flower pots
- Foil
- Food-contaminated paper & napkins (NO greasy pizza boxes)
- Food & wet waste, food-contaminated paper plates and napkins
- Frozen food bags and chip bags
- Garden hoses
- Hardback books - please consider donating
Hazardous or Toxic product containers - Kitchen waste
Light bulbs - Medical waste - see the medical waste FAQ for more resources.
- Pet waste
- Pill bottles
- Plastic bags
- Plastic or metal clothes hangers
- Plastic wrap
- Polystyrene (i.e. - Styrofoam™ food containers, cups, packing peanuts)
- Propane Tanks
- Rubber balls & sports equipment
- Scrap metal
- Tires
- Tools - please consider donating
- Toys (plastic toys) - please consider donating
- Trash bags
- Wood
- Yard Waste
Please consider donating these items if in good condition:
• Ceramics (dishes, etc.)
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• Furniture
• Pots or pans
• Shoes or clothing
• Toys
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads and need to be removed during the sorting process. Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce jar with sauce still in it, can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable either).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycling cart or bin, we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it (Oops Tag) to have it serviced as trash (in which case there may be a charge).
Please note that all recyclable items should be
- Empty means making sure there is no food or product residue. Make sure all of that goes into the trash or down the drain as part of the EMPTY process.
- Clean means that empty recyclable containers should be rinsed. So, no mustard in the mustard containers or leftover ketchup in the ketchup bottles. If you cannot get a container completely clean, it is best to put it into the trash so as not to contaminate the rest of your recycling material and the overall process.
- Dry means letting containers dry before placing them in your green container so that the paper and cardboard doesn't get wet. Wet or soiled paper and cardboard cannot be recycled.
Trash Guidelines
Reducing waste is not just a philosophy it's a daily commitment to our customers and community. It's still important to find ways to reduce the amount of waste that is generated. The less we generate, the more sustainable we become. These tips will help you reduce your environmental impact:
Reduce
• Order items with minimal packaging.
• Print, copy and write on both sides of a sheet of paper when possible.
• Use dry-erase boards and overhead projectors for presentations instead of handing out copies.
• Make training manuals and company information available electronically, instead of in printed books and binders.
• Encourage your staff to use reusable coffee mugs, dishes, and utensils.
• Adopt an environmentally preferable purchasing policy.
Reuse
• Use refillable toner cartridges for printers. Non-refillable cartridges contain between two and three pounds of plastic and metal.
• Send documents between offices and departments in reusable envelopes.
• Reuse corrugated boxes for shipping supplies between offices.
• Buy refillable pens and mechanical pencils. Pencils and the outer casings of pens can come in various reclaimed materials, such as recycled newspaper, plastic, rubber, and even recycled dollar bills.
• Use the blank side of printouts as scratch paper or to take notes.
• Use a refillable water bottle instead of single-use plastics.
• Reduce food waste by
o Consume food prior to the expiration date
o Prepare what you plan to eat
o Save leftovers
Donate
• Donate unwanted office supplies to nonprofit organizations, charities, schools, or used materials exchanges.
• Give excess building materials and supplies from renovations to low-income housing developers or non-profits such as Habitat for Humanity.
• Donate cafeteria leftovers.
- Place Christmas trees at the curb on the green waste collection day. Remember to remove all tinsel, lights and ornaments.
- Break down gift boxes and cardboard boxes, and put them in the recycle cart. If they are too big to fit in your cart once broken down, call Republic Services at 713-726-7307 for a bulk cardboard pickup. Do not forget to remove all packaging materials.
- Cooking oil can be dropped off at the Public Works Service Center at 101A Gillingham Lane, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Just sign in at the front desk. The Service Center will be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Donate first, and recycle second. Donate unwanted clothing and other textile items to local charities. Textiles that are not donated may be recycled. Put the items in the textile bags that the city provides for textile recycling or in boxes labeled with the green tag, available on the city’s website at
https://www.sugarlandtx.gov/ .- Recycle old electronics by visiting the Fort Bend County Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 1200 Blume Road, Rosenberg, TX 77471 or local retailers who may also provide electronic recycling services.
- Use reusable bags or totes while doing holiday shopping to reduce the consumption of plastic bags.
- Reuse decorations, ribbons, bows, packing peanuts and gift bags for future holidays.
Green Waste
Clear or translucent bags are required.
Green waste service is provided once a week and is recycled into mulch.
Green waste includes:
- Grass clippings
- Leaves
- Brush
- Tree limbs
- Christmas trees (ornaments and lights removed)
- Organic material produced in your yard or garden
- Does not include food waste or treated wood.
Program Guidelines
- Set your green waste out by 7 a.m. on your collection day but no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before. No more than 10 cubic yards will be collected.
- Loose materials such as grass clippings and leaves should be placed in a reusable container or in bags and tied. Compostable bags are recommended.
- If a reusable container is used, it needs to be removed from the curb no later than 8 a.m. on the morning following the day of collection.
- Brush and tree limbs must be less than 4 inches in diameter and less than 4 feet in length; or between 4 and 6 inches and less than 2 feet in length.
- Brush and tree limbs must be stacked in small piles (3 feet high and 3 feet wide). Bundling of tree limbs is not required but recommended.
- Green waste should be set out at the curb at least four feet from other objects.
- Do not place green waste in your city-issued garbage or recycle cart.
- If you have a lawn care professional tending your yard, please request that they service your yard the day prior to your collection day.
- Trash can with "green waste" painted on it
- Pile yard waste
- Check to see if your green waste day changed in 2023 - visit the
City's website for additional details
Guidelines for Landscapers
Landscapers are asked to follow specific guidelines as it relates to their work. See the
Special & Household Hazardous Waste
No, Republic Services does not collect or accept hazardous waste.
During Fiscal Year 2020, City of Sugar Land staff conducted a review of the on-call Household Hazardous Waste program and determined that less than five percent of residents utilize the collection services. Rather than continue a program subsidized by all residents and only used by a few, the City determined that the most economically responsible option was to eliminate the program at the conclusion of 2020.
Effective January 1, 2021, the City’s Household Hazardous Waste program is no longer provided as a service.
Moving forward, residents are encouraged to utilize the
Please remember to not place these materials in your garbage or recycling carts, as they should be disposed of properly. It is also important to note that household hazardous waste material placed at the curb with bulky waste will not be collected.
Please utilize the
Accepted materials and fees can be found
No, paints and paint-related products contain hazardous chemicals and should never be poured down the drain or thrown in the garbage. Paint contains solvents and other chemicals considered hazardous. Paint that ends up in the garbage, sink or storm drains can pollute our soil and drinking water, and harm wildlife.
Please utilize the
Medicine and prescription drugs are hazardous and must not go in the trash or be flushed or poured down the drain. Remove any personal information from original containers and find pharmaceutical/medicine take-back locations.
Medical Waste
Pharmacies, medication suppliers, local hospitals, and doctor’s offices often provide disposal options for medical waste such as syringes, needles, or sharps. These items should never be placed loosely in the garbage cart or in your recycle cart.Medications
Residents can dispose of unused or expired medication by purchasing a postage-paid envelope from local pharmacies such as CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger or holding the medication until the next DEA collection event. Controlled substances are excluded from the program.
Needles
Needles should be placed in a sturdy plastic container with a tight-fitting lid such as a laundry detergent bottle. The bottle then needs to be taped shut and labeled syringes, sharps, or needles. The bottle can then be placed in your garbage cart. Do not put this container in your recycle cart.
National prescription drug take-back
The DEA’s Take Back Day events provide an opportunity for the public to safely dispose of prescription medication anonymously. This event is held twice annually at no charge. For information on the dates and locations of this event, visit the
Used liquefied cooking oils are accepted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Public Works Service Center located at:
101A Gillingham Lane
Sugar Land, TX 77478
All customers must check in prior to utilizing the drop-off facility.
City residents may dispose of up to 10 gallons of liquid cooking oil per day at no charge. The cooking oil recycling center is for residential customers only and includes only liquid cooking grade fats, oils, and grease, not petroleum products. Small quantities of cooking oil can be mixed with kitty litter, doubled-bagged, and then placed in your garbage. You can also seal small quantities in a coffee can or similar container and place it in your garbage cart.Never put anything down a storm drain. If you have usable leftover items, share them with family or neighbors. Used oil, old paint, and other household chemicals may not be placed in your garbage cart for collection. Refer to the Fort Bend County Recycling Center for the disposal of partially-filled containers.
Bulk Pickup
Bulk service is serviced once a month for items too large to fit in the garbage cart. Services will fall on either the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Monday of each month. To look up your bulk day please visit the
- To look up your bulk day please visit the
City’s website - Appliances are considered bulky items. Refrigerants (freon) must be removed prior to pickup.
- Set your bulky items out by 7 a.m. on your collection day but no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before.
- Residents may place up to five cubic yards of bulky waste out for collection on their bulky waste service day.
- Bulky items should be set out at the curb at least four feet from other objects.
- Do not place items in your garbage cart for bulky waste collection. Items should be placed directly at the curb.
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Looking for cardboard-only bulk pickup information? See the FAQ above under Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue.
