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We’re a local, eco-friendly, and family-owned residential trash hauling service.

The Gretna Sanitation team — a local, family-owned residential trash and recycling hauler serving Sarpy and Douglas County communities including Gretna, Papillion, and La Vista NE.

Staff holiday party, 2023

You’ll love our customer service — as we have the highest Google rating for residential haulers in the area.

You’ll get the best recycling program since we bring it to First Star, the area's leading recycling facility.

Your money stays local since we’re local & family-owned.

And to boot, we’re a fun crew, as shown in our obligatory “do something funny” holiday party photo.

Am I best friends with Hayley? The experience getting set up for service with her was incredible. She’s witty, answers questions with lots of detail (so you don’t have as much follow up!), and definitely sold me on using Gretna Sanitation over competitors. So while I’m not BFFs with Hayley in real life; we did have a good trash talk session together.
— Google review
I have to say the customer service at Gretna Sanitation is the absolute best. Thanks to Maggie and Mike for making every week a joy to put my trash by the curb.
— Google review
Our SID has graciously decided to cover our trash service! But it is with another company:( Mike has been a rockstar collector for Gretna and we will miss him! Email communications with Maggie have always been timely and helpful. Our new service can only hope to compare! Again thank you!
— Google review
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Residential Services

 
Map showing Gretna Sanitation's residential trash pickup service areas across Sarpy and Douglas County, including Gretna, Papillion, La Vista, and Ralston NE.

Service Areas

Servicing the Greater Omaha Area, including SarpyDouglasCass County. Depending on where you live, some limitations on service availability apply. Our service areas are steadily expanding, so please check with us if you live outside these blue bubbles.

 
Black landfill trash cart used for weekly residential trash pickup by Gretna Sanitation, serving Gretna, Papillion, and La Vista in Sarpy County NE.

Curbside Landfill Pickup

Collection Times: Every week

Bonus: Keeping your money local by supporting a family-owned business

Pricing: Pricing depends on location, billed monthly

 
Man carrying cardboard boxes for curbside recycling pickup service provided by Gretna Sanitation, an eco-friendly hauler serving Papillion, La Vista, and Sarpy County NE.

Curbside Recycling Pickup

We haul to First Star, the area’s top recycling center. Meaning more of your stuff actually gets recycled.

Collection Time: Every-other-week

Pricing: Pricing depends on location, billed monthly.

Recycling Guide: Learn how to recycle better here.

 
Fall leaves collected for curbside yard waste and composting pickup service by Gretna Sanitation, serving residential customers in Papillion, Gretna, and Sarpy County NE.

Curbside Yard Material Pickup

Collecting residential yard material, and in select areas, composting it at Soil Dynamics — the only industrial composting farm in the area.

Collection Time: Weekly from April through November

Bonus: 20% off soil & mulch, plus helping reduce landfill methane emissions while putting nutrients back into Nebraskan land.

Pricing: Pricing depends on location, billed monthly. Running April-November.

 
 

Customer Benefits

 
 
Vintage aerial photo of Gretna NE with "History of Progress" book cover, representing Gretna Sanitation's deep roots as a local, family-owned residential trash hauler in the community.

Supporting Local + Great Customer Service

Keep your money local by supporting our family-owned business based in Gretna. Plus, we’re the area’s highest-rated residential hauler, so you’ll get a great customer experience.

Sunflower representing Gretna Sanitation's eco-friendly approach to yard waste and composting service, with materials processed at the region's only industrial composting facility in Sarpy County NE.

Supporting Planet

More of your materials get recycled through our First Star Recycling partnership. Your separated yard material is guaranteed to be composted (and wind up in local gardens) through the area’s only industrial composting facility we operate. Our trucks run on clean compressed natural gas.

Hands holding rich Nebraska soil, representing the compost discount benefit for Gretna Sanitation customers who receive 20% off soil and mulch through their yard waste pickup service.

Getting Discounts

All Gretna Sanitation customers get 20% off the soil & mulch you helped to create.

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about us

It all started with earnest naivety & fistfuls of grit one day in 2007 when Gretna-raised Andy Harpenau saw a dump truck drive by and said, "Well, how hard can that be?" So the Harpenau family got into the waste hauling industry. 

Little did they know at the time, following that trash truck would send them down the road to usher in a new era of sustainability for our community by creating the Omaha area’s only industrial composting farm

Read more about our company’s history.

 

 

Affiliate Organizations

Hillside Solutions commercial hauling truck, a Gretna Sanitation affiliate providing zero-waste commercial hauling and composting services in the Sarpy County and Omaha metro area.

Hillside Solutions:

Commercial Hauling Services

Making going Zero Waste easy for businesses, schools, and churches through consulting & hauling. Providing basic landfilling needs while offering the most robust recycling & composting services.

Person standing in front of a large compost and mulch pile at Soil Dynamics, the Omaha area's only industrial composting facility where Gretna Sanitation's yard waste is processed in Sarpy County NE.

Soil Dynamics:

Soil & Mulch

Soil Dynamics is the Omaha Metro Area’s only industrial composting facility and it’s where your yard material ends up going before filling gardens & farms around our community with nutrient-dense soil.

 

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Let’s Go!

 
 
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