Government contracts for waste & recycling services

Government contracts for waste & recycling services span every level of public buying, from federal task orders down to county and municipal awards. At the federal level the work is concentrated under NAICS 562111 (Solid Waste Collection), with related work classified under 562119 (Other Waste Collection) and 562212 (Solid Waste Landfill), and the most active customers are DoD installations, the GSA Public Buildings Service, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The same buyer mix repeats year after year, which makes waste and recycling vendors a relatively predictable category to bid into once you know where the recurring spend lives.

Across the federal, state, and local sources ContractRadar tracks, there are 324 open waste & recycling services contracts currently posting across 37 states, with 181 added in the last 30 days. At that volume a focused vendor can build a year-round pipeline from public-sector work alone, even before factoring in subcontracting opportunities under prime-held IDIQs. Nationally, the most active buyers of this work are Department of Transportation (44 open posts) and DEPT OF THE ARMY (20); the remainder splits across federal civilian agencies, DoD components, and state and local departments.

Recurring collection contracts are heavily small-business set-aside and frequently reserved for 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB haulers, since most fall under the simplified acquisition threshold and favor regional operators over national waste majors. Beyond federal posts, every state runs its own procurement program with separate registration, certification, and bid-board rules — ContractRadar pulls SAM.gov together with state and local feeds so a waste and recycling vendor can monitor every market from one inbox instead of logging into a dozen portals each morning. Drill into any state below to see the open waste & recycling services contracts, top buyers, and posting cadence in that specific market.