Trash day, bulk pickup, leaf collection and drop-off dates · Cuyahoga County · 2026 schedule, checked against the city's own notices on Thursday, October 29
City crews collect leaf piles from the tree lawn, one section of the city a week, in two passes from late October to mid December, weather permitting. The city posts a schedule, not progress.
Now, through Fri, Oct 30 · Section 4, first pass
Find your section on the city's leaf map (sections as the city words them).
Section 1: Brookpark and W. 54th (east side of the street) to W. 10th; W. 10th and Brookpark south to Ridgewood (north side of the street).
Section 2: Ridge and Ridgewood south to Sprague; Sprague to W. 130th.
Section 3: Ridge and Ridgewood (south side of the street) to Broadview; Broadview and Ridgewood south to Sprague.
Section 4: Brookpark and W. 130th east to W. 54th (west side of the street); W. 54th and Brookpark south to Ridgewood, west to Westminster.
Have leaves on the tree lawn during your section's week. The exact day and time on your street cannot be predicted.
Do not rake leaves into the street or over catch basins. No sticks, rocks or other debris in the pile.
Do not park on the street in front of the leaf pile during your week.
Missed your week? Bag the leaves by Rumpke's rules and put them out on trash day.
Once a week, Monday through Friday depending on your route (the city's route map shows each area's day). Within three feet of the curb by 7 a.m.; not out before noon the day before.
Every week on your route's day
Trash in the brown Rumpke cart; recycling loose, not bagged, in the smaller green cart.
Up to six extra bags or three extra 32-gallon cans of trash a week.
Yard waste all year on your day: in the brown cart, brown paper yard bags or plastic lawn bags, never in the green cart. Branches cut and bundled; bags and bundles 40 pounds or less.
No pickup on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas. When one falls on a weekday, collection after it runs one day late. A weekend holiday changes nothing.
No batteries, oil-based paint, motor oil, tires, pool chemicals, propane tanks, hot ashes, large car parts or syringes in the carts.
Where the city sends things that do not go in the carts.
Latex paint: dry it out and put it in the trash.
Medications: the Parma Police Department, or a county Sheriff's Rx drug drop box.
Tires: return them to the retailer when you buy new ones, or take them to a chain that accepts them from non-customers (the city names Conrad's, Firestone and National Tire and Battery).
CFL bulbs: free at Home Depot or Lowe's. Rechargeable batteries: retail drop-offs (Call2Recycle).
Propane tanks: propane dealers and stores that sell them.
Plastic bags: store drop-offs, never in the green cart.
