Welcome to Austin, Texas! This Newcomer's Guide to Austin is a resource for you to explore your new city, find important information on settling in, and a guide to help you acclamate so that you can get to enjoying one of the country's most popular and desirable cities to live in.

Even after settling in, come back to the Newcomer's Guide often, to get new information on Austin's growth, tradition, and some of the things that Keep Austin Weird!

Garbage and recycling collection rules are very important and specific in Austin. If you don't know them, you may find yourself paying a lot of extra money for collection:

• Place your trash cart at the curb by 6:30 a.m. on your collection day.
• Place trash, recyclables and yard trimmings 5 feet apart to allow our automated trucks to collect materials safely and efficiently.
• Extra bags of trash that do not fit in your trash cart with the lid closed must be placed next to the trash cart and tagged with an Extra Trash Sticker, which can be purchased at most local grocery stores ($4 + tax). Extra bags without a sticker will be charged a per-bag fee of $9.60 + tax.
• Did we miss your cart? Call Austin Resource Recovery at 3-1-1 or send us an e-mail. We will come by to pick up the missed material as soon as possible.

Information courtesy of the City of Austin website.