Departments
East Ridge Sanitation Department
Household collection runs Monday to Thursday. What day your street is collected depends on your address, and the office will tell you which one it is.
Where
1015 Yale Street
Open
Monday to Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where Each Material Goes
Six kinds of waste, three destinations. The City collects some of it at the curb, takes some of it only at the Yale Street drop-off, and does not handle the rest at all.
Household trash
Curb, in the City-issued cart
Residents are provided a 96-gallon cart. Nothing in a bag outside the cart is collected. An additional cart costs $60 a year, paid in advance at City Hall.
Brush and leaves
Curb, kept separate from each other
Logs and branches thicker than six inches have to be cut into 18-inch sections. Nothing larger is accepted.
Recycling
Curb, every other week
The schedule now includes fifth Fridays. Businesses along Ringgold Road are collected weekly.
Large bulk items and metal
Curb, or the Yale Street drop-off
Furniture, and metal items such as stoves, refrigerators, and water heaters.
Construction materials
Yale Street drop-off only
These are not collected from any resident.
Tires and hazardous materials
A Hamilton County disposal site
The City publishes the list of county locations.
Carts have to face the right way and stand at least three feet clear of cars, mailboxes, and anything else on every side. A cart that does not is not collected that week.
Holiday Collection Changes
Eleven holidays shift collection in the published schedule. In most cases the pickup moves to the following Monday or Tuesday, and around Christmas and New Year's Day it moves earlier instead.
New Year's Day, Thursday, January 1, 2026
Collected Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 19
Collected Tuesday, January 20
Good Friday, Friday, April 3
Collected Monday, April 6
Memorial Day, Monday, May 25
Collected Tuesday, May 26
Independence Day, Friday, July 3
Collected Monday, July 6
Labor Day, Monday, September 7
Collected Tuesday, September 8
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26
Collected Wednesday, November 25
Day after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 27
Collected Monday, November 30
Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24
Collected Wednesday, December 23
Christmas Day, Friday, December 25
Collected Monday, December 28
New Year's Day, Friday, January 1, 2027
Collected Monday, January 4, 2027
Recycling and Leaf Collection
A free recycling cart
Recycling carts are free. Fill in the recycling program form and email it, or mail it to the Sanitation Department at 1517 Tombras Avenue, East Ridge, TN 37412.
Collection is every other week, and the schedule now takes fifth Fridays into account. The City has published a revised list of what it will accept for recycling.
The leaf vacuum
Crews vacuum raked leaves from the curb, free to every resident, on a schedule that splits the City into two areas: north of Ringgold Road and south of Ringgold Road.
Rake leaves close to the road but not onto the road surface or into a ditch or drainage structure, and keep rocks and sticks out of the pile. Leaves are not collected on the same day or in the same way as brush.
The City's page gives the season twice and does not give it the same way twice: once as December through February, and once as mid-fall to early spring. Both are reproduced here as published. Call (423) 892-8666 to confirm the current run.
The Yale Street Drop-Off
Weekday hours
Monday to Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Saturday hours
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., seasonal
Extended transfer station hours starting April 11, 2026.
Mulch
$6 per scoop
Buy it on site or at City Hall. A receipt from City Hall has to be shown at the brush pit to collect it.
Dumpster rental
Short-term rental for household and commercial use
No roofing material and no cinder block. Call (423) 892-8666 for pricing and scheduling.
Sanitation service is billed on the Hamilton County property tax notice.
Who Works Here
- Robert ParkerSanitation Supervisor(423) 892-8666
- Clint InglesAssistant Sanitation Supervisor