Mission's sanitation department provides twice-weekly waste collection, monthly brush pickup and public recycling for more than 22,000 homes across the city, and it is who you ring about anything the weekly rounds leave behind, on (956) 583-2564.

Our listing has long carried the address 609 North Canal Avenue for a Mission recycling centre. That address appears in several third-party directories, but the city's own sanitation page does not name it. What the city currently publishes is a pair of mobile recycling trailers, one at 15th and Perkins Street and one at the sanitation department itself at 105 Abelino Farias. The city says those bins are open to the public and invites residents to use them.

Because the city does not confirm a staffed facility on North Canal Avenue, we are not publishing hours or a fee for one. If you are heading out to recycle, the two trailer locations are the sites the city stands behind today. Anyone specifically needing the Canal Avenue site should call the department first and confirm it is operating.

A few practical points follow from how Mission runs its service. The city does not offer a separate recycling cart at the kerb, which is why the drop-off trailers matter more here than in cities with a blue-bin programme. Brush is collected monthly rather than on request, so large yard clearances usually mean either waiting for the monthly round or hauling the material yourself. And because the trailers are unstaffed containers rather than a weighbridge, they suit ordinary household recyclables rather than bulky items, construction debris or appliances, which need a different route entirely.