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Trash Tracker.

Your pickup day, live DPW delays, and a real way to report a miss. When trash gets skipped, the record shouldn’t.

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When’s my pickup?

Type a DC street address. This checks the same official route data DPW uses, straight from DC’s open map services. Nothing you type here is stored.

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Report a missed pickup

Fill this out and hit send. You’ll get a confirmation right here, and your report goes on the record for your route.

What was missed

Reports go only to your commissioner (SMD 1E03); the public record shows blocks and routes, never names, addresses, or contact info. Location sharing is optional.

What happens next

You report here once, and that’s it. Your ANC commissioner batches these reports with DPW’s own delay notices, raises them directly with DPW community relations, and files or references 311 requests where they actually help. You don’t have to wrangle the 311 app for your report to count here.

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Why this exists

DPW tells ANC commissioners about delayed routes by email and asks us to “share with constituents.” No commissioner has every neighbor’s email, and the official channels for residents have not kept up. So this page puts the delay notices, the route data, and your reports in one public place.

Every report becomes part of a running record per route: what was missed, when, how often, and how long it took to fix. That record is what your ANC brings to DPW when we ask for better service, in resolutions and in writing, without making every neighbor fight the 311 app themselves.

Privacy: the public record shows blocks and routes, never names, exact addresses, or contact details. Reports go only to your commissioner (SMD 1E03).

Route data: DC GIS open map services, digitized by DPW. Route mapping groundwork by Josh Jacobson (ANC 1E06) ↗. One node in the wider commons of DC civic tools.