St. Paul residents can now look up their future trash hauler online.

In advance of the Oct. 1 debut of organized trash collection, St. Paul Public Works has mailed explanatory brochures to residents and property owners citywide. The brochures indicate who their new hauler will be, the day of the week pick-up will occur, the size of their new trash cart and whether they have alley pick-up.

The information is online at tinyurl.com/StpHaulerMap. Type in your address and the site will display your garbage and recycling information.

In most cases, trash collection days and recycling collection days are now one and the same. That’s not the case for about 10 percent of the city, where collection will occur on different days of the week.

The city negotiated a contract with a consortium of more than a dozen private haulers that effectively divided the city into zones or districts, with different haulers assigned to each zone. Property owners were asked to choose a cart size in May and can change their selection in January by contacting their hauler.

New garbage carts will be delivered between Aug. 13 and Sept. 21, and the first invoices from new haulers will arrive in mid-September. Old carts will be removed between Sept. 24 and Nov. 2. Service will begin Oct. 1.

The brochures provide additional information about bulky items such as couches, service holds, walk-up service, yard waste collection and refunds for pre-paid services with existing haulers.

There’s no need to cancel existing service — it will be canceled automatically. But residents need to be sure to cancel automatic payment withdrawals by Sept. 30.

The city’s contract does not allow residents to opt out of garbage collection. Billing will continue to be handled by the haulers themselves.