When Does Greenwood Heavy Trash Pickup Run in 2026?

Greenwood heavy trash pickup runs once a month, on your regular trash day during the last full week of the month. For 2026, the brochure from the City’s trash partner, Best Way Disposal, lists the weeks from January 26 to 30 through October 26 to 30 and prints no week for November or December.

Below we cover those weeks, what you can set out, what stays at the curb, how a Freon appliance gets picked up, and where trash can go between heavy trash weeks, from the Johnson County Recycling Center (which takes no trash) to the Franklin Transfer Station. Dates, fees and rules are as the City of Greenwood, the Johnson County Recycling District and each facility listed them when we checked in October 2026.

Which Week of the Month Does Heavy Trash Pickup Run in Greenwood?

The last full week of every month, on the same weekday your cart goes out. Greenwood routes run Monday through Friday by address, so say your cart goes out on Tuesdays: your heavy trash goes out on the Tuesday of that week. The City’s waste management FAQ sets that rule, and its interactive trash route map shows your day.

These are the 2026 weeks as the Best Way brochure on the City’s website prints them (the same brochure comes in each new cart):

Judging by those dates, a full week means Monday through Friday inside the month. April 2026 ended on a Thursday, for example, so its heavy trash ran April 20 to 24.

The brochure’s calendar runs from December 2025 through November 2026, but its heavy trash list stops at October, and December 2026 falls outside it altogether. For November or December, call Best Way at 317-484-3365 and confirm the week before you drag anything to the curb.

Holidays can move your day. When a holiday falls on or before your pickup day, Best Way picks up one day later than scheduled, and Thanksgiving and Christmas are both on the brochure’s holiday list. You can see the shift in May: Memorial Day fell on Monday, May 25, and that month’s heavy trash ran Tuesday to Saturday.

This schedule is for homes inside Greenwood city limits, where trash service comes with the City sanitation bill. If your home sits outside the limits, ask the hauler you subscribe to how it handles bulky items.

What Can Go Out on a Greenwood Heavy Trash Day?

Furniture and the rest of the brochure’s can-include list, each item prepared the way it asks:

• Furniture and lawn furniture
• Mattresses, wrapped in plastic
• Carpeting and flooring scraps, bundled in 4-foot by 4-foot pieces
• Broken glass and mirrors, wrapped in cardboard and taped
• Appliances without Freon, such as a washer or a stove
• Other household items

Have it all at the curb by 7 a.m. on your trash day: heavy trash follows the same rules as your cart, per the City’s waste management page. Leave a gap around your cart, too, since the brochure requires at least 3 feet of clearance on every side of it. Say you are emptying a guest room. The bed frame, the plastic-wrapped mattress and the dresser can go out together, a few steps from the cart rather than up against it. If you are not sure an item counts, Best Way’s customer line is 317-484-3365.

Heavy trash carries no fee of its own. The City’s residential trash rate, $18.60 a month when we checked in October 2026, includes recycling, heavy trash, and leaf and limb pickup at no additional charge (City utility rates).

What Will Heavy Trash Pickup Leave at the Curb for Greenwood Homes?

Anything on the brochure’s cannot-include list. It sorts into six groups:

• Yard and building material: dirt, sod, rocks, pavers, concrete and cement blocks, construction or demolition materials, construction debris and large metal pieces
• Car items and chemicals: tires, auto parts, batteries, used oil, paint, pesticides, automotive fluids and household chemicals
• Electronics of any kind, from a TV to a printer
• Extra bags of trash
• Tree limbs
• Freon appliances (freezers, refrigerators and air conditioners) without the City’s FREON sticker

Two of those are easy to miss. Bagged trash is not heavy trash, so a stack of garbage bags beside the couch stays put; overflow bags need a sticker and go out on regular trash day, covered below. And limbs have a separate program: the City runs a year-round limb pickup, and Greenwood residents who pay for trash service can also drop limbs at the Fry Road facility through December 6, 2026.

A dismantled playset runs into several of these lines at once, and our Greenwood swing set removal guide covers what that job costs.

How Do You Get a Freon Appliance Into Heavy Trash Pickup in Greenwood?

With a sticker and a phone call. A refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner that contains Freon cannot go out as ordinary heavy trash, and the brochure sets two steps for it:

1. Buy a “FREON” sticker from Greenwood Sanitation for $75.00.
2. Call Best Way at 317-484-3365 to arrange the pickup.

Greenwood Sanitation is the City utility that bills your trash service, and the City’s customer service line for new service and billing questions is 317-865-8238. The brochure does not say whether a stickered appliance rides along during heavy trash week or comes on a separate trip, so ask when you call Best Way.

The Recycling Center is no shortcut here. The Johnson County Recycling District’s e-waste list turns away appliances and any item containing Freon, so in Greenwood the sticker route is the curbside answer.

Will the Johnson County Recycling Center Take What Heavy Trash Won’t?

Some of it, but no trash. The district’s center at 2250 North Graham Road in Franklin does not accept trash items (district large trash note) and does not pick anything up (Recycling Center page), so treat it as a drop-off for recycling, electronics and household chemicals, not a dump.

Here is how the heavy trash exclusions line up with what it takes from Johnson County residents:

• Electronics: computers, printers, phones, cables, microwaves and similar items go to its e-waste drop-off. TVs and computer monitors do not, and the district’s page lists recyclers that take them for a fee.
• Paint and chemicals: oil-based paint and stains, automotive fluids, pesticides and pool chemicals go to its household hazardous waste drop-off, with no appointment, in labeled containers, up to a trunk load per address each month, and other limits may apply. Latex paint and propane tanks are on its refused list.
• Batteries: rechargeable, button, power tool and lead acid batteries are accepted. Household alkaline batteries are not, and per the district those can go in your regular trash.
• Tires: not on the center’s accepted lists, but a store that sells you new tires must take back the same number of old ones under Indiana’s waste tire rules (district tire note).
• Concrete, building debris and large metal: on none of its accepted lists. South Side Landfill, in the next section, takes construction and demolition debris for a fee.

The center is open Tuesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., closed to the public on Mondays and on county government holidays (hours and drop-off directions, October 2026).

Where Can Trash Go in Greenwood Between Heavy Trash Weeks?

Overflow bags can ride with your weekly cart, and for anything bigger, the two drop-off sites below charge a fee. Three options, from smallest to largest:

Extra bag stickers. Greenwood Sanitation sells them for 75 cents each. Put one on every bag that does not fit in your cart and set the bags out on your regular day, because bags without stickers will not be picked up.

Franklin Transfer Station. It sits at 730 Industrial Drive in Franklin, on the east side of U.S. 31 just south of the Franklin Police Station, and is open Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon (district drop-off listing). The Johnson County Recycling District lists it for households without curbside service and publishes no prices, so call 317-736-4542 for the price and to ask whether it takes your load as a Greenwood curbside customer.

South Side Landfill. The landfill at 2561 Kentucky Avenue in Indianapolis is privately owned and takes household waste along with construction and demolition debris (landfill’s residential page). It names Greenwood among the communities it serves (landfill’s home page). What a load costs there is in our South Side Landfill price guide.

For the other landfills and transfer stations around the metro, see our guide to where to dump junk in Indianapolis.

When Is a Crew Faster Than Heavy Trash Pickup for Greenwood Residents?

When the date or the pile does not fit the City’s route. Four cases where a crew is the faster call:

• The calendar works against you. A move-out, a house sale or an estate cleanout in the middle of the month cannot always wait for the last full week, and the November and December 2026 weeks are not printed yet. We offer same-day and next-day service.
• The item is on the cannot-include list. TVs carry a $25 surcharge with us, and tires and Freon items cost extra. Our appliance removal for Greenwood homes takes most household appliances, including the refrigerator you would rather not sticker yourself.
• It is a teardown. We own a skid steer, so we can take down a shed, a garage or a hot tub.
• Nobody can get it to the curb. Each truck comes with two crew members, and stairs cost extra.

The crew prices the load after seeing it, with no obligation, and you pay once the job is done. You also know when we are coming: a confirmation when you book, reminders two days and two hours ahead, and a text from the crew once they are on the way. We do not haul paint, chemicals, fuel or oil, so those still go to the Recycling Center’s drop-off within its rules. We cover junk removal in Greenwood, and Franklin junk removal too.

Final Thoughts

If your items are on the can-include list and you can wait for the last full week of the month, heavy trash is already part of your Greenwood trash bill. For November or December 2026, call Best Way at 317-484-3365 first, because the brochure prints no 2026 week for either month. Past that, the item decides the route: a Freon appliance starts with the $75 sticker, electronics and household chemicals go to the Recycling Center within its limits, and a load of trash between weeks can go to South Side Landfill for a fee, or to the Franklin Transfer Station once you confirm it takes your load. When none of that fits your timing, we offer same-day and next-day service.