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City of Dover trash and recycling collection routes

Route shapes with their trash pickup weekday and recycling schedule, read from the City of Dover GIS, used to tell a resident their trash day from their address.

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The layer was reachable on 2026-11-07 and holds only zone names, acreage and shapes, which are facts. Its license and access fields are empty, and we found no City terms that limit reuse. Please credit it with the line below.

Published by
City of Dover, Delaware
Source
License
Facts only (no license needed for the facts)
Credit line
Trash zones from the City of Dover GIS.
Updated
Monthly
Covers
Routes in force on the fetch date (fetched_date on each row).
Area
City of Dover, Delaware

Fields

trash_routes

batch_id, route_key, route_name, trash_days, recycling, recycling_week, recycling_days, geometry_json, min_lon, min_lat, max_lon, max_lat, source_url, fetched_date, license_id, license_url, attribution, redistributable

Downloads and API

  • trash_routes: CSV ยท JSON
  • README with the license and credit line

Files are saved each morning. Earlier copies, one for each day the data changed, are listed at dover-sanitation-routes/versions.

Or page through the rows in the OpenDover API. No key is needed.

https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/dover-sanitation-routes/rows?table=trash_routes

You can also see this data in answers on AskDover.