In 2014, Denver Public Works will begin the first phase of a plan to move the City of Denver to automated cart trash collection. In 2010, the City outlined strategies to improve waste services in its ‘Master Plan for Managing Solid Waste in the Mile High City’. The plan called for a number of service improvements designed to make waste collection more efficient and to reduce waste disposal by providing options to divert waste to better uses like recycling and composting. 

Starting this summer, the City will begin to convert approximately 20,000 homes with dumpster or manual trash collection to cart based trash service. The transition will take place in the following neighborhoods: Globeville, Swansea Elyria and parts of Cole and Clayton; Barnum, Barnum West and Westwood; a portion of West Colfax; Platt Park, Overland, Rosedale and part of University; part of Hale; and, East Colfax and part of Park Hill.

In addition to improving the equity of services across the city and increasing collection efficiency, the cart conversion process provides many other benefits to the residents in impacted neighborhoods.
More information about this City wide conversion can be found here. https://www.denvergov.org/trashrecycling/TrashandRecycling/Resources/SolidWasteMasterPlan/tabid/440800/Default.aspx

If your household does not yet have a purple bin for recycling please go here. http://www.denvergov.org/trashrecycling/TrashandRecycling/Recycling/SignupforRecyclingService/tabid/440892/Default.aspx

Denver Recycles provides residential recycling services to single family homes and multi-family homes with seven or fewer units.  Recycling is provided to eligible homes at no charge