About Your Services

All residential waste must be in a container provided by the County’s waste collection contractor Hardin Sanitation. Personal store-bought trash cans, boxes, plastic bags, bundled waste, and/or any other loose items will no longer be collected as part of your regular garbage service.

Residential service for customers in unincorporated Ada County includes (1) 95-gallon trash cart serviced weekly and (1) 95-gallon recycle cart serviced bi-weekly.

Additional Carts

Additional trash or recycling carts are available for a small monthly fee of $1.97 per month (includes sales tax). To order, please call Hardin Sanitation 208-642-2629

Set Out Instructions

Bag trash to prevent littering
Place carts out by 7:00 am on your pick-up day
Place carts in the street against the curb
Place carts at least 3 feet away from each other and any other objects
Place carts in area free of overhead trees, etc. (14 feet clearance)
Make sure cart handle faces your house with cart opening toward the street
Do not block sidewalks
Curbside Compositing is NOT currently offered. Dump grass/yard waste directly into the trash cart leaving the lid open to allow for drying.
Place used motor oil in clear jugs with a label and in full view of drivers on your recycle day (only)

Weekly Servcie Trash cart with blue lid, Bi-Weekly Service Trash cart with Orange Lid

Acceptable Materials	Unacceptable Materials
Food Miscellaneous garbage Normal household waste materials Paper Alkaline batteries ONLY Did you know batteries should NEVER be put in the recycle bin or EnergyBag® orange bag? Only alkaline batteries can go in your trash cart. All other batteries should go through the Ada County Household Hazardous Waste Program. Ada County Hazardous Waste	Animal carcasses Asbestos Ashes (hot or cold) Chemicals Electronics Hazardous waste, liquids, paints, oils Medical waste Tires White goods containing CFC’s (appliances)

Bulk Waste & Appliances

For an additional fee, Hardin Sanitation will pickup large items like furniture and appliances. Please call 208-642-2629 at least 24 hours in advance of your normal collection day to schedule collection of bulk items.

Hazard Waste

Hazardous Waste is not allowed in any Hardin Sanitation container or truck. Please take these items to the Ada County Landfill Hazardous Waste Drop Off location. Hidden Hollow Landfill, 10300 Seaman’s Gulch Rd. Boise, ID 83702. Open Friday & Saturday from 8 am – 6 pm. Questions – Call the Ada County Landfill at 208-577-4736. For a complete list of mobile hazardous waste sites and their operating hours visit Curbit, City of Boise. For information regarding disposal of explosives, ammunition, radioactive items & biomedical waste please call (208) 577-4736.

Recycling Guidelines

To preserve the value of the recyclables, only place approved items in the recycling cart that are empty, clean, and dry. If non-recyclable material is placed in the bag or bin, it may cause the entire container’s contents to be sent to the landfill.

Set Out Instructions

Place carts out by 7:00 am on your pick-up day
All approved recycling items can be mixed in the cart
No glass, styrofoam, or yard waste. All yard waste should go in your trash cart
Flatten or cut down cardboard boxes to fit in the cart
Lids must close

Acceptable Materials

Unacceptable Materials

#1 or #2 Rigid Plastic Bottles & Jugs – milk jugs, detergent jugs. Rigid plastic soda and fruit juice bottles are also accepted in the recycle cart.
#4-#7 Plastics (NO lightweight “crinkly” water bottles) – may be recycled in the Orange Dow Hefty Energy Bags – securely tied and placed in the recycle cart.
Tin & Aluminum Cans – (labels & lids ok), empty aerosol cans, clean foil, wire hangers
Newspapers & Magazines (including inserts) & MIXED PAPER – junk mail (cellophane windows ok), magazines, catalogs, cereal boxes, office paper, phone books, paper towels & toilet paper rolls, paper bags, computer and fax paper, construction paper etc.
Cardboard – cut, flatten, or fold to fit in a recycle cart

#3 – NO Lightweight Plastics – lightweight water bottles cannot currently be recycled in either the single-stream cart or Orange Bag.
NO Shredded Paper, NO Cartons – (waxy coated paper containers), NO tissues, paper towel or food contaminated paper
NO Glass
NO Styrofoam

Learn more about the Orange Bag Recycling Program here at Hefty EnergyBag Program

Come visit us at our new office location to pick up your free box of Hefty Energy Bags today (*while supplies last)!

Office Location:
252 E. Front St., Suite #199 Boise, ID 83702

Free Hefty Energy Bags