UNSPSC 76120000: Refuse disposal and treatment

UNSPSC 76120000 Refuse disposal and treatment is a Family code that encompasses collection, hauling, processing, and disposal of municipal solid waste, yard waste, vegetative debris, liquid sludge, and specialized refuse streams from residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial sources. State and local governments procure roll-off container rental and pickup services for temporary debris management; curbside residential collection with weekly to three-times-weekly frequencies; commercial and institutional trash and recycling services; yard waste grinding and mulching; liquid sludge hauling from wastewater treatment facilities; litter removal and street sweeping; and specialized services including grease trap cleaning, biomedical waste disposal, and emergency debris removal. The work spans routine operations at fixed locations and on-call response to temporary conditions such as flood debris and illegal dumping sites.

Recent activity shows issuing across state transportation departments (Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Parks and Wildlife), state environmental agencies (Delaware Department of Natural Resources), county and municipal governments (Brevard County, City of Fort Worth, City of Atlanta, Chatham County, Glynn County, Randolph County), special-purpose authorities (Paradise Township Sewer Authority, Chadds Ford Township Sewer Authority, Boston-area Regional Services Consortium), housing authorities, and town and municipal departments throughout the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, and Arizona. The Texas General Land Office, Georgia Department of Administrative Services, and cities in Connecticut, Georgia, Arizona, and Florida appear frequently as repeat buyers. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas General Land Office's IFB for roll-off trash container rental and disposal spanning multiple locations in Texas (due October 16, 2026), the City of Mulberry, Georgia's RFP for residential solid waste collection and recycling services for approximately 13,100 units (RFP2026-01, due October 22, 2026), the City of Richardson, Texas's ITB for outdoor litter removal across 64 park and public sites (ITB 03-27, due November 5, 2026 with estimated annual budget of approximately $285,000), and Paradise Township Sewer Authority's IFB for liquid sludge hauling and disposal at 2,160,000 gallons annually (due November 12, 2026 via PennBID). Geographic concentration is heaviest in Texas, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Florida, with additional recent activity in Arizona, Delaware, Massachusetts, and throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Contract terms typically run one to three years with renewal options; pricing structures range from monthly per-unit rates for residential collection to lump-sum bids for temporary debris removal; and procurement processes employ IFB, RFP, RFQ, and ITQ notice types with prevailing wage and federal compliance requirements (Davis-Bacon, BABAA, Section 3, DBE participation) common when federal funding is involved.