Austin Energy is the electricity provider for the Austin area.

Austin Water is the water/trash service provider for the Austin area.

You can do the following from the Austin Water website:

• Find your watering day

• Report a leak

VWOOA residents are serviced curbside by Austin Resource Recovery at the following intervals.

Weekly Pickup:

• Trash (brown bin)

• Compost (green bin) - yard waste, food waste, and food-stained cardboard

• Additional Yard Waste (leaf bags and tied bundles of sticks)

Biweekly Pickup:

• Recycling (blue bin) - mixed plastic, paper, and aluminum

Custom Collection Schedule:

Use My Schedule to get a personalized collection calendar for all City of Austin residential curbside services. You can also sign up for a text, an email or a phone call reminder and alerts.

What do I do with…?:

Use What Do I Do With to get answers from the City of Austin regarding how to recycle or dispose of a specific waste item.

Large Brush Drop Off:

Austin and Travis County residents can drop yard trimmings and large brush at the Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant (2210 FM 973, Austin, TX) 8 a.m.– 4:30 p.m., Monday–Saturday. The material will be composted and made into “Dillo Dirt.”

Texas Gas Service is the natural gas provider for the Austin area.

Austin Resource Recovery collects bulk items twice a year.

Bulk Item Collection:

• You will receive a notice from the City of Austin in advance of a bulk collection service.

• Place bulk items at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week.

• Bulk collection is for items too large to fit in containers.

• Keep items 5 feet away from your trash bins and mailboxes.

• Do not put items in bags, boxes or other containers.

• Bags will be treated as extra trash and are subject to extra trash fees.

Separate items into three piles as described below:

• Metal items - Includes appliances (remove doors). These are taken to our Resource Recovery Center for recycling

• Passenger car tires - Rims must be removed. Limit of eight tires per household. We cannot collect truck or tractor tires. Tires will go to a tire recycling facility

• Non-metal items - Includes carpeting and nail-free lumber. These items go to a landfill.

Austin Resource Recovery is working on plans to salvage reusable items from bulk collection to help meet the City of Austin's Zero Waste goal

Because these piles are collected by different trucks, they may be collected at different times throughout the week.

Austin Resource Recovery collects large brush twice a year.

Large Brush Collection:

• You will receive a notice from the City of Austin in advance of a large brush collection service.

• Large brush is any yard waste (branches, etc) that is too large to be placed in the green compost bin.

• Place large brush at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week.

• Keep items 5 feet away from your trash bins and mailboxes.

• Brush should be between 5 and 15 feet in length.

• Tree trunks more than 8 inches in diameter should be less than 3-feet-long.

• Cut ends should face the street.

• Stack loosely along the curb in one row, not more than 15 feet across and no higher than 4 feet.

• Do not block the sidewalk.

• Do not extend into the street.