Lakeland contracts with All Star Waste Systems for the collection and disposal of residents' household rubbish, garbage, and yard and brush waste. For these services, a fee is added to your monthly utility bill from Memphis Light, Gas and Water that includes weekly collection of refuse and yard waste, and biweekly collection of recyclables and limbs. 

To request service, contact City Hall at 867-2717. To determine your collection day for refuse and recycling, contact City Hall or see Trash Schedule (PDF) and Recycling & Limb Schedule (PDF).

Collection Day. Garbage, rubbish and bagged yard waste will be retrieved from your curbside. It is important that you place your cart and bags at the curb by 7 am on your collection day (All-Star drivers will document occurrences when carts are not out at time of collection). If your cart is picked up, but not the trash outside the cart, then another truck will be coming by to pick up the other trash. See Trash Schedule (PDF).

Recycle Collection. Recycling will be collected every other Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on your location east of Canada Road/north of Highway 70 or west of Canada Road. Please place recyclables at the curb by 7 am on the designated Tuesday.  See Recycling & Limb Schedule (PDF).

Limb Collection. Limbs will be collected the same week as your recycling. Leave limbs and brush in lengths of 2 feet and longer, and less than 10 inches in diameter. The evening before pick-up, they should be placed in loose piles at the curb, not in the street, and be free of glass, metal or other objects. Material left by a contractor will not be picked up. See Recycling & Limb Schedule (PDF).

Holiday Collection. All Star does not collect on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. If your scheduled collection day falls on or after one of these holidays, solid waste collection and recycling will be delayed one day.

Extra Carts or Bins. If you wish to have extra push carts or recycle bins delivered to your house, call All Star at 854-8865. There is a $4 per month charge for each additional push cart and a one-time fee of $6 for each additional recycle bin.

Acceptable Materials

All Star will pick up acceptable household garbage and rubbish, yard waste, limbs and recycled items.

No construction materials, rocks, dirt or concrete will be collected. Car batteries, paint, tires, large auto parts and dead animals are also unacceptable.  Limbs or brush will not be picked up if less than 2 feet in length, larger than 10 inches in diameter, or left by a contractor.

All Star is unable to collect materials which are classified as hazardous or liquid waste. Please note some household cleaners and solvents fall under this category. Read label instructions for proper disposal. You may contact the Shelby County Environmental Improvement Office at 379-7020 or visit the Shelby County Environmental Program Department web page for hazardous/liquid waste disposal tips and special drop-off dates.

Home healthcare items such as syringes and needles are not acceptable. We suggest you contact the Shelby County Health Department at 544-7600 for information on the proper way to dispose of any of these items. 

Small appliances may be placed in your push cart or left at the curb. If you have large appliances or furniture weighing more than 75 pounds, call All Star at 854-8865 to arrange a special pick-up. Any appliances containing refrigerants, such as refrigerators or air-conditioning systems, will not be picked up unless drained and tagged by a licensed technician.

The following items may be recycled but containers must be empty, clean of food and rinsed (labels do not have to be removed):

• Glass: Food or beverage jars and bottles made of brown, green or clear glass.
• Metal: Tin cans, steel cans and tin- plated food and beverage containers of all sizes.
• Aluminum or Foil: Used aluminum beverage containers, TV dinner trays, foil and other foil packaging that are clean of food.
• Plastic: Only plastics stamped with PET, PETE or HDPE and 1 or 2 are acceptable. Milk jugs, soda bottles, water and juice jugs, detergent and soap bottles (with caps and labels) are usually a type 1 or 2 plastic.
• Paper: Old newspapers and inserts, magazines, brown paper bags, junk mail (be careful with personal information), office paper, phone books and computer paper.
• Cardboard: Only small, uncoated boxes that have been broken down. Cereal and shoe boxes are acceptable.

The following items cannot be recycled at this time: Motor oil or antifreeze containers, flower pots or trays, soaked or extremely yellowed newspaper, wet or previously wet magazines, wax- or plastic-coated cardboard boxes, Styrofoam containers or packing pellets, plastic grocery or dry cleaning bags (however, plastic bags can often be recycled at grocery or discount stores).