Pembroke Pines HOA Trash Can Cleaning: A Guide for Townhouse Boards

The City of Pembroke Pines puts trash cart cleaning on residents. Its residential curbside trash cart page says carts should be cleaned periodically by residents using a hose, and the city's 2025–26 annual solid waste notice repeats that residents should occasionally hose out their carts.

Waste Pro USA collects residential trash in Pembroke Pines twice a week. The truck lifts the cart, tips it and sets it down. Nothing in that washes the walls, the base where liquid pools, or the underside of the lid, and the city's guidance leaves that part to the household.

Townhouse communities in Pembroke Pines need trash bin cleaning because a rule addressed to every resident individually turns into a job nobody does. A townhouse owner may have no hose near where the cart is kept, nowhere sensible to rinse it, and a cart that lives in a narrow side area or a garage between pickups.

The result shows up on collection morning. The city asks for carts at the curb before 7:00 a.m., lid opening facing the street, at least three feet from vehicles, mailboxes and other carts. On a townhouse street that is a long row of carts close to front doors, and one neglected cart is enough for the row to smell and draw flies.

Two things in Pembroke Pines add to it:

• Twice-weekly collection keeps carts in use. Food waste goes in between every pickup, so the residue never gets a long dry spell.
• Curbside recycling is suspended. The city's residential recycling page says recycling collection has been suspended citywide since 2022, so the garbage cart is the one doing the work.

Yes. A Pembroke Pines HOA or townhouse association can contract The BinFather for the whole community at once, so every home's curbside cart is cleaned on the same schedule. We clean the carts at the curb on the community's collection day, after the garbage truck has emptied them, and nobody has to be home.

1. 01One contract, one invoice. The work is priced per cart for the whole community and billed to the association, not to each owner.
2. 02One schedule. Every cart is done the same day, so the whole street is clean at once.
3. 03Nothing asked of residents. Owners put the cart out for collection as they already do. We work after the truck, while the carts are as empty as they get.
4. 04Nothing drawn from the property. We bring our own water. The dirty water goes into a collection tank on our truck or trailer — nothing is left on your property.

This is the same community trash can cleaning we offer across Broward. Owners in a community without a contract can still book their own carts on our household plans.

Townhouse trash bin cleaning in Pembroke Pines covers the inside, the base, the lid and the outside of each cart at the curb. Heated water at pressure removes the bonded residue a garden hose leaves behind, then each cart is sanitized, deodorized and set back where it stood, ready to use.

If the community also has shared spaces — a cart bank, a corral by the clubhouse, a trash room in a mid-rise building — those can go on the same schedule as part of our commercial and HOA cleaning service.

A board should check four things before setting up community cart cleaning: its governing documents, the number of carts, the collection days, and how residents will be told.

1. 01Read the governing documents. Search the Declaration and the rules for "refuse", "receptacle" and "common expense". Our guide to HOA trash bin rules in Florida covers the usual wording.
2. 02Count the carts. Waste Pro issues carts in 35, 65 and 95-gallon sizes, and some homes have more than one. The count is what the price is built on.
3. 03Find the collection days. Pembroke Pines splits the city into zones with different twice-weekly days; the city's notice points to its "Find My Trash Pickup Day" map at ppines.com/462.
4. 04Tell residents. A short note that carts are now cleaned on a schedule, plus the city's own advice — bag household garbage before it goes in the cart, and keep lids closed to control odors and varmints — protects the work between visits.

Cleaning the carts removes the main thing that draws flies and animals to a curb: food residue baked onto the plastic. A security gate controls who drives in; it does nothing about what a cart smells like.

A clean cart with a closed lid gives raccoons and flies far less to work with. Our Pembroke Pines page explains why wildlife pressure is higher in the western neighbourhoods near the conservation areas.