For more than 50 years, the Department of Solid Waste Management has served the Miami-Dade community. Today, we are the largest government owned and operated waste collection and disposal system in the southeastern United States. In addition to providing waste collection and recycling services to over 300,000 households in unincorporated Miami-Dade County and nine municipalities, our Department owns and operates the most technologically advanced waste-to-energy facility in the world.

Miami-Dade County will observe Independence Day on Friday, July 3, 2009.  Curbside garbage and trash Collection service will not take place on Friday, July 3, 2009.

We are proud to present the Hybrid Waste Collection Truck. This fuel-efficient hybrid waste collection vehicle was unveiled on Earth Day and has been pilot-tested on two waste collection routes in west Miami-Dade. Check out more facts and photos of this environmentally-friendly hybrid vehicle!

Miami-Dade Solid Waste recycling customers can sign up to miamidade.gov to receive recycling alerts. Once you sign up, you'll receive an e-mail reminder the night before your scheduled recycling pick-up day.
> Find out how you can sign up

In this episode of Inside County Jobs, Miami-Dade TV’s new series, host Erika Benitez-Gill drops by the Snapper Creek Trash and Recycling Center and takes you on a behind-the-scenes adventure where there’s no time to waste.  It's not a glamorous job, but somebody’s gotta do it…

Miami-Dade County has successfully finished distributing the new recycling carts. The curbside recycling program is now available throughout the County and it's a more convenient "single-stream" recycling effort.
> Learn more about the program
> Look up your recycling day
> Sign up for recycling alerts

The Department of Solid Waste Management is hard at work cleaning up litter and illegal dumping, but we must all do our part to help keep Miami-Dade County clean. The DSWM has launched a litter awareness campaign with a message to residents - "Don't Trash It. Can It!"

A customer satisfaction survey conducted by an independent research firm found that more than 80 percent of Miami-Dade residents rate garbage collection as good or very good.