Street – Sanitation

STREET PATCHING AND PAVING

The 2025-2026 Street paving and patching schedule can be found at the link below:

Road Project Prioritization List

STREET CLEANING AND SCRAPING

In an effort to keep your streets safe and clean, the Street Department asks citizens not to park long term on the streets in order for the street flusher to wash the streets and for streets to be scraped by snow plows during bad weather. Spring is time for street paving and several streets are scheduled to be paved each year.

TRASH

The Town of Canton contracts with Waste Pro for household garbage and recycling pickup. IMPORTANT INFO:  Beginning January 9, 2025 collection is on a weekly basis every THURSDAY and your trash must be placed at the curb.

TRASH AND RECYCLING CAN INFORMATION

Each address is provided a large blue recycle bin by the Town of Canton. Customers are responsible for getting their own trash can(s). A trash can should not be bigger than 39 gallons and weigh more than 50 lbs when filled. Each household is allowed up to 3 trash cans for pickup each week.

MISSED TRASH AND/OR RECYCLING

If your trash is missed and you need to contact Town Hall to report it. Do not contact WastePro directly, the garbage contract is handled through the Town of Canton. You can contact Town Hall to resolve pickup issues by either emailing garbage@cantonnc.com, or by calling 828-648-2363 during office hours.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 2025

This is a tentative schedule for WastePro’s collection days during certain holidays. Sometimes WastePro will contact us the week of a holiday and ask to keep the original pickup day instead of working on a delay. We will share this information as it becomes available here, on our social media, and through our Canton Alert messaging system. You can sign up for alerts using the provided link.

• Memorial Day: Pickup will be Friday, MAY 30, 2025
• Labor Day: Pickup will be Friday, SEP 5, 2025
• Thanksgiving: Pickup will be Friday, NOV 28, 2025
• Christmas: Pickup will be Friday, DEC 26, 2025
• New Year: Pickup will be Friday, JAN 2, 2026

STREET PICKUP

If you need to have any brush, leaves, debris, or any of the items listed below picked up by the Street Department please fill out an online work order or call it in to Town Hall at 828-648-2363 during regular business hours Monday – Friday, 7:30am – 4:00pm.

The Town will provide free pick up of the following items:

• Household junk, appliances, furniture and electronics but is unable to accept construction debris of any kind. Furniture, appliances, and electronics must be placed at the curb.
• Carpet can be picked up, but a charge will be made based on the weight of the material.
• Paint cans can be picked up if they are dried out, if they are not dried out you can put cat litter in them and then they can be picked up.
• Grass, brush and limbs.
  • Bagged leaves and grass will be picked up year-round at the curb.
  • Brush must be stacked and limbs must be no larger than 3” in diameter and 6’ in length. All must be stacked at the curb with cut ends facing the curb. Households are eligible for one pickup each month.

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**IMPORTANT**: The Town of Canton will NOT pickup nor remove brush, limbs, or similar forms of debris which result from contracted work being performed. It is the responsibility of the property owner or tenant to have such brush, limbs, or similar forms of debris removed at their own expense.

SPECIAL FALL LEAF PICKUP

Beginning in late October through late December a vacuum truck will come by once a week to suck up any leaves that you rake or blow to the curb without being bagged.
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** IMPORTANT ** ALL other times outside the special pickup period leaves MUST be bagged and a work order must be submitted.

Leaf Pickup Schedule

This schedule is subject to change depending on the weather, the amount of leaves, and/or unforeseen mechanical issues with equipment. [PRINTABLE VERSION]

Monday - Newfound Area

Tuesday - North Main Area

Wednesday - Academy Area

Thursday - Pisgah Drive Area

Friday - Penland/Skyland Terrace Areas