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1. Who do I call if my garbage or recycling collection was missed?

If you live within the City limits of Cocoa, please call 321-433-8770 or 433-8788. Please leave a message so we can quickly assist you. You can complete the Request Tracker Form (click the Request Tracker Form link). If you live in unincorporated Brevard County (Port St. John, Canaveral Groves, Merritt Island, etc.) you need to call Waste Management (321-636-6894) or Brevard County Solid Waste (321-633-2042). Request Tracker Form

2. What is included in my solid waste service?

Your residential collection includes garbage collection twice per week, recyclable collection once per week, yard waste collection once per week, one green waste and one white goods bulk pickups per year. For more information, you can visit Waste Management's website

here.

3. When is my garbage collected?

Solid Waste is picked up on Monday and Thursday. Recyclables, yard waste is picked up on Wednesdays. If you have a large amount of yard waste to be picked up, please call 636-6894. Bulk Greenwaste is picked up on Saturdays.

4. When should I place my garbage container at the curb?

Containers can be placed curbside after 7 p.m. the day before your collection, and they must be removed from the curb by 7 p.m. on your collection day.

5. What items cannot be picked up?

To protect the environment and ensure the safety of our residents, the City of Cocoa does not accept household hazardous waste for curbside collection. These items include solvents, paints, auto fluids and household/pool chemicals. As an alternative, Brevard County Solid Waste conducts hazardous household chemical collection during the year. For more information on household chemical collection, contact Brevard County Solid Waste at 321-633-2042. Also, a suggestion on those handy thin plastic shopping bags. They work great as little trash bags, or to carry lunches to work or school, but please do not put them in the recycle container. Most stores have a receptacle for them near the front of the store. When they get into the recycling, they cause problems with the sorting machinery and mostly just make a mess

Brevard County Solid Waste

6. How is yard waste collected?

Yard waste is collected once per week as part of your standard curbside service. Please put the yard waste in an "Autocart" container (some people may call them "hobos" or "dumpsters"). Please do NOT put greenwaste in a plastic bag, or yard waste bag. To find out your yard waste collection day, call us at 321-433-8770, email us, or fill out the online Request Tracker Form.

Request Tracker Form

7. Do you collect on holidays?

If a holiday falls on your regular collection day, you will not receive service that day. Waste Management will resume regular pickup on your next scheduled day. 

Waste Management Holiday Schedule

8. What goes in my Recycle Container?

Almost anything! City of Cocoa residents enjoy Single-Stream Recycling. This means no more sorting, simply put everything in the same container. However, those handy plastic shopping bags can not go into the recycling. Most stores have a recycling container near the front specifically for those bags. Waste Management has all the details of "Single Stream" recycling program on the Waste Management Site