Fall Green Waste Collection
The City of Albuquerque’s Solid Waste Management Department will pick up residential Green Waste at no additional charge. This year’s fall Green Waste collection program begins on Monday, December 2 and will end on Friday, December 13, 2024.
Solid Waste customers should have their Green Waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on the day of their regular trash collection day. All Green Waste must be placed 5 feet from trash and recycling containers as well as any large items scheduled for pick-up. Solid Waste customers must place their Green Waste (leaves, grass, and brush) in trash bags.
Each trash bag should not weigh more than 40 pounds. Customers that have branches must cut them to four-foot lengths and bundle them securely.
The following items will not be picked up: dirt, construction debris, gravel, construction material, or tree stumps.
The green waste is processed into a rough chip mulch and is used to help prevent erosion at the Cerro Colorado Landfill.
Free Treecycling
The Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD), Parks and Recreation, and PNM are teaming up to offer residents a chance to recycle their real Christmas trees. The program kicks off on December 26, 2024, and runs through January 8, 2025, at three separate locations in Albuquerque. No artificial trees will be accepted.
PNM Vegetation Management crews and Parks and Recreation staff will grind trees into mulch chips, which can provide a better growing environment for plants and residential landscapes. Residents can pick up the mulch chips free of charge while supplies last. Last year, this program kept more than 3,600 trees out of the landfill.
Trees may be dropped off between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., starting on Tuesday, December 26 at the following the locations:
Eagle Rock Convenience Center, 6301 Eagle Rock NE, (505) 768-3925
Ladera Golf Course, 3401 Ladera Dr. NW, (505) 836-4449
Montessa Park Convenience Center, 3512 Los Picaros SE, (505) 768-3930, temporarily closed on Thursdays and Fridays
Please remove all bags, tree stands, decorations and lights from trees before dropping them off to be mulched. Limit of five trees per resident, no commercial customers.
Fall FixIt Clinic
Keep your old and broken items out of the landfill by learning how to fix them with our expert repair consultants. They'll fix them for free and show you how to keep fixing them in the future.
Dash for the Trash
Combining enthusiasm for environmental efforts and competitive spirit, Dash for the Trash invites the community out for a race to find out who's the best at beautifying the Bosque.
Fiesta Fanatics Cleanup Event
Solid Waste and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful invite you to get a jump start on the 52nd annual International Balloon Fiesta with a cleanup event at Balloon Fiesta Park and in communities city-wide.
Spring Green Waste Collection
The City of Albuquerque’s Solid Waste Management Department will pick up residential Green Waste at no additional charge two times each year. The next Green Waste collection event is set for Monday, April 29, through Friday, May 10. Dates have yet to be set for fall 2024.
Solid Waste customers should have their Green Waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on the day of their regular trash collection day during the annual Green Waste Collection event. All Green Waste must be placed 5 feet from automated trash and recycling containers as well as any large items scheduled for pick-up. Solid Waste customers must place their Green Waste (leaves, grass, and brush) in trash bags.
Each trash bag should not weigh more than 40 pounds. Customers that have branches must cut them to four-foot lengths and bundle them securely.
The following items will not be picked up: dirt, construction debris, gravel, construction material, or tree stumps.
The green waste is processed into a rough chip mulch and is used to help prevent erosion at the Cerro Colorado Landfill.
Please call 311 or 505-768-2000 with questions or to report a missed Green Waste pick-up.
Green Waste Collection Event Tips
During collection events, please follow these guidelines:
Green Waste must be 5 feet away from trash/recycling containers.
Green Waste must be placed in trash bags.
Trash bags must not weigh more than 40 lbs.
Cut branches to four-foot lengths and bundle them securely.
Dirt, debris, gravel, construction material or tree stumps will not be picked up.
Do not place green waste in your recycling cart.
One Albuquerque Cleanup Day
Join the City’s Solid Waste Management Department and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful for One Albuquerque Cleanup Day on Saturday, April 20th from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Gather a group of friends or neighbors and register to clean up your neighborhood, park, or other area that needs it in honor of Earth Day! With your help we can all work together to keep Albuquerque clean and beautiful.
Recyclothes
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and Locker #505 are teaming up to sponsor the 12th Annual Recyclothes event at Hinkle Fun Center. Every year, thousands of students in the greater Albuquerque area and their families go without basic necessities. Recyclothes is a clothing drive that directly benefits those students. Locker #505 partners with Albuquerque schools to make sure students in need have clothes, shoes, undergarments and coats so they can focus on learning.
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event
In order to participate, residents must fill out Participant Form. Bring printed form day of.
Take advantage of this opportunity to dispose of up to 55 gallons of household hazardous waste. Examples of household hazardous waste include waste that can burn easily (flammable), corrode or irritate skin (corrosive), or poison humans and animals (toxic).
FixIt Clinic
Do you have a broken item in need of repair? Join us at the FixIt Clinic!
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful is partnering with Quelab Makerspace to host this year's FixIt Clinic. Bring your broken household items and learn from our experienced coaches how they can be repaired. This is a free, all-ages event where people can learn how to assess, disassemble, and hopefully repair broken household items instead of sending them to the landfill. The acceptable items include bikes, small appliances, electronics, and sewing projects.
We are also looking for skilled individuals who are handy and experienced in sewing, woodwork, leatherwork, electronics, small appliances, and jewelry. We invite you to register as a coach if you have any of these skills.
The deadline to register is Friday, February 9th at 5pm.
Junk Jog!
Join Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the City’s Solid Waste Management Department on Saturday, October 28, 2023 for the fifth annual Junk Jog - a "plogging" event. Plogging, a combination of jogging and picking up litter, began several years ago as an organized activity in Sweden because of growing concerns about marine debris and litter. Keep Albuquerque Beautiful, alongside the City Solid Waste Management are bringing this trend back to the Southwest by inspiring Burquenos to help make our communities cleaner, safer, healthier, and more beautiful.
Ploggers will have the opportunity to jog a 1-mile loop (or more if they choose) while picking up litter along two Bosque trails near Central and Sunset. Participants are invited to register as individuals or to form Junk Jog teams to help keep Albuquerque’s Bosque beautiful.
Each plogger will receive a plastic garbage bag, gloves, and a litter grabber to pick up the trash, as well as an official t-shirt. At water stops along the route, volunteers will cheer participants on and help ploggers exchange filled garbage bags for new bags. At the end of the jog, each plogger’s trash bags will be counted. Prizes will be given to the top three individuals and groups that collect the most litter.
Want to participate as a plogger? Click here to download the registration form.
Want to volunteer and help us out with this event? Click here.
Everyone will be receiving a free shirt in their chosen size, though sizes can't be guaranteed after October 10 due to shipping deadlines. The deadline to register as either a plogger or volunteer is Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 5 p.m.
Company’s Comin’
Company’s Comin' is our fall neighborhood cleanup initiative. Join neighborhoods all over the City or hundreds of volunteers at Balloon Fiesta Park to help #KeepABQBeautiful. To help you clean up your neighborhood, Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the City of Albuquerque Solid Waste Management Department will:
• Provide free trash bags and gloves for your cleanup
• Collect your neighborhood waste from the cleanup at 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 30
Registration deadline is Friday, September 22, at 5:00 p.m.
Click here to download the registration form to register your neighborhood cleanup. Please note that supplies supplies will need to be picked up on Thursday, September 28 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
For the cleanup at Balloon Fiesta Park, click here to download the registration form.
State of the City
Free, all ages event! The Community Expo and Celebration at the Albuquerque Rail Yards is happening from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by the Mayor’s State of the City Address at 1 p.m. Come visit us, play our recycling game, and learn more about how you can get involved to help keep Albuquerque Beautiful.
Learn more about the event here: cabq.gov/sotc
Fall Green Waste Collection
The City of Albuquerque’s Solid Waste Management Department will pick up residential Green Waste at no additional charge. This year’s fall Green Waste collection program begins on Monday, November 28 and will end on Friday, December 9, 2022.
Solid Waste customers should have their Green Waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on the day of their regular trash collection day. All Green Waste must be placed 5 feet from automated trash and recycling containers as well as any large items scheduled for pick-up. Solid Waste customers must place their Green Waste (leaves, grass, and brush) in trash bags.
Each trash bag should not weigh more than 40 pounds. Customers that have branches must cut them to four-foot lengths and bundle them securely.
The following items will not be picked up: dirt, construction debris, gravel, construction material, or tree stumps.
The green waste is processed into a rough chip mulch and is used to help prevent erosion at the Cerro Colorado Landfill.
Call 505-761-8167 with questions.
Junk Jog
Join Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the City’s Solid Waste Management Department on Saturday, October 24, for the fourth annual Keep Albuquerque Beautiful Junk Jog - a "plogging" event. Plogging, a combination of jogging and picking up litter, began several years ago as an organized activity in Sweden because of growing concerns about marine debris and litter. Keep Albuquerque Beautiful, alongside the City Solid Waste Management are bringing this trend back to the Southwest by inspiring Burquenos to help make our communities cleaner, safer, healthier and more beautiful.
Ploggers will have the opportunity to jog a 1-mile loop (or more if they choose) while picking up litter along two Bosque trails near Central and Sunset. Participants are invited to register as individuals or to form Junk Jog teams to help keep Albuquerque’s Bosque beautiful.
Each plogger will receive a plastic garbage bag, gloves, and a litter grabber to pick up the trash, as well as an official t-shirt. At water stops along the route, volunteers will cheer participants on and help ploggers exchange filled garbage bags for new bags. At the end of the jog, each plogger’s trash bags will be counted. Prizes will be given to the top three individuals and groups that collect the most litter.
Want to participate as a plogger? Click here to download the registration form.
Want to volunteer and help us out with this event? Click here.
Everyone will be receiving a free shirt in their chosen size. Because of this the deadline to register is Friday, October 6 at 5 p.m.
Company's Comin'
Please join us along with neighborhoods all over the City for our fall neighborhood cleanup initiative! Be a part of the cleanup event at Balloon Fiesta Park or host a clean up in your neighborhood.
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful ad the City of Albuquerque Solid Waste Management Department will:
Provide free trash bags and gloves for your cleanup
Collect your neighborhood waste from the cleanup at 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 24
Registration deadline is Friday, September 16, at 5:00 p.m.
Click here for more information and to download the registration form for your neighborhood. Please note that supplies will need to be picked up on Thursday, September 22 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Want to be a part of the large-scale cleanup at Balloon Fiesta Park? Click here for the registration form.
Neighborhood Nature Festival
These free park pop-up events are a celebration of nature in our neighborhood. Paletas food truck, local/neighborhood musical performance, bilingual nature storytelling and puppet show, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem traveling exhibit truck, hands-on science activities, nature-based games, show-n-tell with urban wild animals, Esperanza bike repair clinic, on-site language interpreters, and more including our recycle right game. Come and learn outside while enjoying all that nature has to offer in your neighborhood.
Neighborhood Nature Festival
These free park pop-up events are a celebration of nature in our neighborhood. Paletas food truck, local/neighborhood musical performance, bilingual nature storytelling and puppet show, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem traveling exhibit truck, hands-on science activities, nature-based games, show-n-tell with urban wild animals, Esperanza bike repair clinic, on-site language interpreters, and more including our recycle right game. Come and learn outside while enjoying all that nature has to offer in your neighborhood.
Neighborhood Nature Festival
These free park pop-up events are a celebration of nature in our neighborhood. Paletas food truck, local/neighborhood musical performance, bilingual nature storytelling and puppet show, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem traveling exhibit truck, hands-on science activities, nature-based games, show-n-tell with urban wild animals, Esperanza bike repair clinic, on-site language interpreters, and more.
Open Space will also be hosting a free Neighborhood Concert this same day from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Learn more here: www.cabq.gov/naturefest
Neighborhood Nature Festival
These free park pop-up events are a celebration of nature in our neighborhood. Paletas food truck, local/neighborhood musical performance, bilingual nature storytelling and puppet show, nature-themed carnivale performers, bosque ecosystem traveling exhibit truck, hands-on science activities, nature-based games, show-n-tell with urban wild animals, Esperanza bike repair clinic, on-site language interpreters, and more.
One Albuquerque Cleanup Month -- NW quadrant
Join the City’s Solid Waste Management Department and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful for the 2nd annual One Albuquerque Cleanup Month. After collecting 94,860 pounds (more than 47 tons) of trash in all four quadrants of the City last year thanks to our 732 volunteers, we’re doing it again but we need your help! Gather a group of friends or neighbors and register to clean up your neighborhood, park, or other area that needs it in honor of Earth Month. With your help we can all work together to keep Albuquerque clean and beautiful.
We will provide each group that registers with garbage bags and gloves for their cleanup. If you need help finding an area to clean up, we can help you with that! We’ll be providing maps of nearby parks and trails at the central drop-off location each Saturday. The central drop-off locations will also be where each group will need to bring their trash so Solid Waste can collect and dispose of it.
April 30: from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Central trash drop-off location:
Mariposa Basin Park/Taylor Ranch, 4900 Kachina St NW
Registration Deadline: April 27
Supply pick up: April 28 from 11 am - 1 pm
One Albuquerque Cleanup Month -- SW quadrant
Join the City’s Solid Waste Management Department and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful for the 2nd annual One Albuquerque Cleanup Month. After collecting 94,860 pounds (more than 47 tons) of trash in all four quadrants of the City last year thanks to our 732 volunteers, we’re doing it again but we need your help! Gather a group of friends or neighbors and register to clean up your neighborhood, park, or other area that needs it in honor of Earth Month. With your help we can all work together to keep Albuquerque clean and beautiful.
We will provide each group that registers with garbage bags and gloves for their cleanup. If you need help finding an area to clean up, we can help you with that! We’ll be providing maps of nearby parks and trails at the central drop-off location each Saturday. The central drop-off locations will also be where each group will need to bring their trash so Solid Waste can collect and dispose of it.
April 23 from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Central trash drop-off location: Tower Park, 601 86th St SW
Registration deadline: April 20
Supply pick up: April 21 from 11 am to 1 pm
One Albuquerque Cleanup Month -- NE quadrant
Join the City’s Solid Waste Management Department and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful for the 2nd annual One Albuquerque Cleanup Month. After collecting 94,860 pounds (more than 47 tons) of trash in all four quadrants of the City last year thanks to our 732 volunteers, we’re doing it again but we need your help! Gather a group of friends or neighbors and register to clean up your neighborhood, park, or other area that needs it in honor of Earth Month. With your help we can all work together to keep Albuquerque clean and beautiful.
We will provide each group that registers with garbage bags and gloves for their cleanup. If you need help finding an area to clean up, we can help you with that! We’ll be providing maps of nearby parks and trails at the central drop-off location each Saturday. The central drop-off locations will also be where each group will need to bring their trash so Solid Waste can collect and dispose of it.
April 16 from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Central trash drop-off location: North Domingo Baca Park, 7521 Carmel Ave NE (parking lot off Corona Ave NE)
Registration deadline: April 13
Supply pick up: April 14 from 11 am - 1 pm
One Albuquerque Cleanup Month -- SE quadrant
Join the City’s Solid Waste Management Department and Keep Albuquerque Beautiful for the 2nd annual One Albuquerque Cleanup Month. After collecting 94,860 pounds (more than 47 tons) of trash in all four quadrants of the City last year thanks to our 732 volunteers, we’re doing it again but we need your help! Gather a group of friends or neighbors and register to clean up your neighborhood, park, or other area that needs it in honor of Earth Month. With your help we can all work together to keep Albuquerque clean and beautiful.
We will provide each group that registers with garbage bags and gloves for their cleanup. If you need help finding an area to clean up, we can help you with that! We’ll be providing maps of nearby parks and trails at the central drop-off location each Saturday. The central drop-off locations will also be where each group will need to bring their trash so Solid Waste can collect and dispose of it.
April 9 from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Central trash drop-off location: Phil Chacon Park, 7600 Southern Ave SE
Registration deadline: April 6
Supply pickup: April 7 from 11 am to 1 pm
Recyclothes - Clothing Drive for Locker 505
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and Locker 505 are teaming up to sponsor the 10th Annual Recyclothes event at Hinkle Family Fun Center. Every year, thousands of students in the greater Albuquerque area and their families go without basic necessities. Recyclothes is a clothing drive that directly benefits those students. Locker 505 partners with Albuquerque schools to make sure students in need have clothes, shoes, undergarments and coats so they can focus on learning.
This year, go green and spring clean! As you organize your closets, dresser drawers, and even your garages, set aside clean, gently used clothes to benefit the lives of Albuquerque students. You can help make a difference in a child’s life. Please bring your gently used clothing for K-12 students to Hinkle Family Fun Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Those who donate will have a chance to win some fun prizes! There will also be free donuts while supplies last.
Treecycling
The Solid Waste Management Department, Parks and Recreation, and PNM will recycle real Christmas Trees for FREE at three separate locations in Albuquerque beginning December 27, 2021. No artificial trees will be accepted. PNM Vegetation Management crews and Parks and Recreation staff will grind trees into mulch chips, which can then be used as mulch to provide a better growing environment for plants and residential landscapes.
Trees may be dropped off between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday, December 27, through Sunday, January 9, 2022 at the following locations:
Montessa Park Convenience Center, 3512 Los Picaros SE
Eagle Rock Convenience Center, 6301 Eagle Rock NE
Ladera Golf Course, 3401 Ladera Dr NW
Please remove all bags, tree stands, decorations and lights from trees before dropping them off to be mulched. Limit 5 trees per resident, no commercial customers.
Fall Green Waste Collection
The City of Albuquerque’s Solid Waste Management Department will pick up residential Green Waste at no additional charge. This year’s Fall Green Waste collection program begins on Monday, November 29 and will end on Friday, December 10.
Solid Waste customers should have their Green Waste at the curb by 7 a.m. on the day of their regular trash collection day. All Green Waste must be placed 5 feet from automated trash and recycling containers as well as any large items scheduled for pick-up. Solid Waste customers must place their Green Waste (leaves, grass, and brush) in trash bags.
Each trash bag should not weigh more than 40 pounds. Customers that have branches must cut them to four-foot lengths and bundle them securely.
The following items will not be picked up: dirt, construction debris, gravel, construction material or tree stumps.
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event
City of Albuquerque’s Department of Municipal Development, Engineering Division; Solid Waste Management Department; Bernalillo County, and Advanced Chemical Transport (ACT) are sponsoring a free household hazardous waste collection event at Balloon Fiesta Park.
Residents of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County are encouraged to bring their household hazardous waste on this drop-off day. Examples of household hazardous waste include those items that can burn easily (flammable), corrode or irritate the skin (corrosive), or poison humans and animals (toxic).
Accepted Items:
Paint
Automotive Oil
Antifreeze
Gasoline
Cleaning Supplies
Finishes & Stains
Aerosols
Pesticides/Herbicides
Poisons
Corrosives/Photo graphics
Batteries of all types
Fertilizers
Pool Chemicals
Fluorescent Light Bulbs
Mercury
Items Not Accepted:
Cylinders
Fire Extinguishers
Appliances (Stoves, Refrigerators, etc.)
Metals
Paper
Needles/Medical Waste
Medications
Computers
Televisions/Stereos/Electronics
Asbestos
Ammunition/Gunpowder/Explosives
Radioactive Materials (including smoke detectors)
Download, print, and fill out the event form prior to the day of the event.
Junk Jog
Join Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the City’s Solid Waste Management Department on Saturday, October 23, for the third annual Keep Albuquerque Beautiful Junk Jog plogging event. Plogging, a combination of jogging and picking up litter, began several years ago as an organized activity in Sweden because of growing concerns about marine debris and litter. Keep Albuquerque Beautiful, alongside the City Solid Waste Management are bringing this trend back to the Southwest by inspiring Burquenos to help make our communities cleaner, safer, healthier and more beautiful.
Each plogger will receive a plastic garbage bag, gloves, and a litter grabber to pick up the trash, as well as an official t-shirt. At water stops along the route, volunteers* will cheer participants on and help ploggers exchange filled garbage bags for new bags. At the end of the jog, each plogger’s trash bags will be counted. Prizes will be given to the individual and group that collects the most litter.
Ploggers will have the opportunity to jog a 1-mile loop (or more if they choose) while picking up litter along two Bosque trails near Central and Sunset. Participants are invited to register as individuals or to form Junk Jog teams to help keep Albuquerque’s Bosque beautiful. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23.
Park Cleanup with we.grow.eco
we.grow.eco, in collaboration with Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and Albuquerque Parks and Rec, invites folks in the Albuquerque community to join us on Saturday, October 2nd at 9:30 a.m. at Westgate Community Park to pick up some litter together.
Chauncey has decided to walk from Virginia Beach, Virginia to San Francisco, California. His friend Noah is driving the support vehicle and helping to coordinate & document the adventures. along the way, they're meeting up with folks in local communities to pick up trash & talk about civic engagement & grassroots organizing. learn more about the project at www.wegroweco.org.
Upon arrival for the cleanup:
We will have a brief orientation about how the morning will go, then split into smaller groups
"Collector" groups will be a given gloves & bags/buckets, & will then spread out in the park
One group will hang back as the "sorters," and as collectors come back with buckets of trash, they will sort by type & brand, then use the One Piece A Day smartphone app to document the litter
After collecting & documenting our litter haul, we will gather together to take a group photo & debrief about single-use plastic pollution & possible grassroots power-driven solutions
Register for the free event, by clicking here.
Company's Comin'
Company’s Comin' is our Fall neighborhood cleanup initiative. Join neighborhoods all over the City and help #KeepABQBeautiful. To help you clean up your neighborhood, Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the City of Albuquerque Solid Waste Management Department will:
• Provide free trash bags and gloves for your cleanup
• Collect your neighborhood waste from the cleanup at 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 25.
Registration deadline is Friday, September 17, at 5:00 p.m. Click here, for more information and to download the registration form.
Recyclothes
Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and Locker 505 are teaming up to sponsor the 9th annual Recyclothes event at Hinkle Family Fun Center. Every year, thousands of students in the greater Albuquerque area and their families go without basic necessities. Recyclothes is a clothing drive that directly benefits those students. Locker 505 partners with Albuquerque schools to make sure students in need have clothes, shoes, undergarments and coats so they can focus on learning.
This year, go green and spring clean! As you organize your closets, dresser drawers, and even your garages, set aside clean, gently used clothes to benefit the lives of Albuquerque students. You can help make a difference in a child’s life. Please bring your gently used clothing for K-12 students to Hinkle Family Fun Center from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In honor of National Donut Day, there will be free pre-packaged donuts while supplies last!