The sanitation workers who collect our trash each week get a much-deserved day off for Christmas. So what does that mean for your county’s garbage collection schedule?
We’ve compiled a county-by-county breakdown of how trash service is affected by the holidays to help you plan ahead for when to put your cans to the road.
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Duval County
In Duval County, garbage collection schedules are adjusted ONLY for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
- Christmas: Schedules are changed only when the holiday falls on a scheduled collection day.
- Visit the Residential Waste Collection Schedule lookup page and type in your address for the revised schedule.
Solid waste collections for New Year’s Day will run on a normal schedule.
To request collection service or report a problem with collection, call 904-630-CITY (2489) or visit https://myjax.custhelp.com/.
Atlantic Beach
Garbage, recycling and yard waste are collected every day of the year, except for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. When these holidays fall on a regularly scheduled collection day, all solid waste will be collected on the following day.
Question? Email info@coab.us or visit www.coab.us/solidwaste.
St. Johns County
Garbage and recycling will not be collected on Monday, Dec. 25, and the Tillman Ridge and Stratton Road solid waste scale houses will be closed.
Collections will resume on Tuesday, Dec. 26 through Saturday, Dec. 30 and be delayed by a day.
The solid waste scale houses will resume standard business hours on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
Two service providers collect solid waste in St. Johns County: Waste Management (southern half of county) and Republic Services (northern half of county).
Here is their holiday schedule information:
Waste Management
There will be no service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Republic Services
There will be no collection on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
Service will run one day late, so Monday customers will be collected on Tuesday, and so on for the week of Christmas. Please place your cans out by 6 a.m. for pickup.
For specifics on your service area, enter your address in the search at https://www.republicservices.com/schedule.
St. Augustine
City of St. Augustine offices will be closed on Friday, Dec. 22; Monday, Dec. 25; and Tuesday, Dec. 26 in observance of Christmas, as well as Jan. 1, 2024, in observance of the New Year’s holiday.
Residential yard waste collection will be suspended on Wednesday, Dec. 27 as well as the following Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, to allow for Solid Waste workers to be given the Christmas and New Year’s holiday off from work.
Please note that during these holidays limited solid waste services will still be completed, such as litter pick up and commercial garbage and recycling collections.
The week of Jan. 8, 2024, all residential and commercial services will resume to normal scheduled collections.
The week of Christmas the Solid Waste schedule is as follows:
- Monday, Dec. 25 – no residential garbage. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Tuesday, Dec. 26 – Monday residential garbage route. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Wednesday, Dec. 27 – No brush collections. Tuesday residential garbage route. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Thursday, Dec. 28 – Normal residential recycling, and Commercial garbage & recycling
- Friday, Dec. 29 – Normal residential recycling, and Commercial garbage & recycling
The week of New Year’s the Solid Waste schedule is as follows:
- Monday, Jan. 1, 2024 – no residential garbage. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024 – Monday garbage route. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024 – No brush collections. Tuesday garbage route. Altered commercial garbage and recycling routes.
- Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 – Normal residential recycling, and Commercial garbage & recycling
- Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 – Normal residential recycling, and Commercial garbage & recycling
Clay County
Environmental Services and the Rosemary Hill SWMF will be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, and the Environmental Services Administration Building will be closed Dec. 25-26 and Jan. 1.
Curbside collection services will be affected on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, and the collection schedules will be delayed by a day for both weeks. For instance, if your collection is scheduled for Monday, it will be done on Tuesday, Tuesday on Wednesday, and so forth until Saturday.
Waste Management
There will be no pickup service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Green Cove Springs
Christmas: No pick-up on Monday, Dec. 25, and Tuesday, Dec. 26. All services will be picked up on their next scheduled day.
New Year’s Day: No pick up on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. All services will be picked up on their next scheduled day.
For more Green Cove Springs information, click here.
Orange Park
No pick-up on Christmas Day. Normal Monday pickups will take place on Tuesday.
Nassau County
There will be no pickup on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
If the holiday occurs on or prior to your scheduled collection day, services will be delayed one day for the remainder of the week.
Fernandina Beach
There will be no pickup service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Flagler County
The city of Palm Coast contracts with FCC Environmental for garbage collection, recycling, yard waste and bulk trash.
There will be no pick-up on Christmas Day. All services will receive double pick-up on the following service day.
Recycling will occur on Monday, Jan. 1, but trash will not be collected. Trash services will perform a double pick-up on the following service day.
For more information, click here.
Bunnell
There is no service on Christmas Day.
Flagler Beach
There will be no collection on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
Service will run one day late, so Monday customers will be collected on Tuesday, and so on for the week of Christmas. Please place your cans out by 6 a.m. for pickup.
For specifics on your service area, enter your address in the search at https://www.republicservices.com/schedule.
Putnam County
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are county and Waste Pro holidays.
If your pick-up day falls on one of these days, your service will be on a one-day delay.
All other pick-ups that week will fall back one day. (Example: Thursday will be moved to Friday and Friday will be moved to Saturday.)
For the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s Day, collection will be delayed one day for all customers during those weeks.
Waste Pro’s office will be closed Monday, Dec. 25 and Monday, Jan. 1.
For more information, click here.
Baker County
The county is serviced by Waste Management.
There will be no pickup service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Bradford County
Bradford County does not provide curbside pickup, but the county’s solid waste collection sites are closed on county holidays, including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
If a holiday falls on a Saturday, the county observes it on Friday and is closed on Friday and Saturday. If a holiday falls on Sunday, the county observes it on Monday and is closed Sunday and Monday. More info
Starke
GFL is the solid waste collector for the city of Starke.
There will be no pick-up service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
If a holiday falls on your service day, your trash will be collected the following day. Routes will be delayed by one day the rest of the week after a holiday.
For example, if your normal collection day is Tuesday and a holiday is on Tuesday, you will be serviced on Wednesday. If a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Columbia County
Columbia County administers the contract for curbside collection through Waste Pro, which provides for once-a-week pickup for household garbage and yard waste.
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are Waste Pro holidays.
Garbage collection will run a day behind all week following the holiday with Friday’s route being picked up on Saturday.
Any additional questions concerning collection should be directed to 386-758-7800. For more information, click here.
The Winfield Solid Waste Facility will be closed on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Union County
GFL collects garbage in Lake Butler.
GFL observes the following holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
If your normal pick-up day falls on one of those holidays, your trash will be serviced the following day. Routes will be delayed by one day the rest of the week after a holiday. For more on your holiday schedule, click here.
New River Solid Waste Association also provides waste collection services to Lake Butler and throughout Union County. To find out more about its services, call 386-431-1000.
For more on the solid waste collection site schedules in the county, click here.
Alachua County
Only six holidays affect collection service:
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year's Day
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (observed)
- Memorial Day
- Fourth of July
Waste will not be collected on these holidays, and all scheduled pick-ups will be delayed by one (business) day that week. Collection will return to normal the following week.
For more information, click here.
Gainesville
Residential curbside collection for garbage, recycling and yard trash will not be picked up on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1, and will be delayed by one day for the rest of the week.
Camden County
There will be no pickup on the following holidays:
- Monday, Dec. 25, 2023, Christmas Day
- Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, New Years Day
If your regularly scheduled services fall on Christmas or New Year’s Day, your service will occur on the following day. Service will continue to be a day behind for the rest of the week.
For more information, click here.
Charlton County
The county is serviced by Waste Management.
There will be no pickup service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
Waste collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week, following the holiday. For example, if a holiday is on Tuesday and your service day is Wednesday, you will be collected on Thursday. Friday collection will be serviced on Saturday.
For more information, click here.
Folkston
The Chesser Island Landfill in Folkston is only closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
For more information, click here.
Glynn County
If your normal collection day falls on or after a holiday, your garbage collection will be one day later for the duration of that week. This includes yard debris and recycling services.
So for Christmas week, those normally with Monday pick-up days will be picked up on Tuesday and so on for the rest of the week.
Contact Customer Service at 912-554-7111 if you have any questions about your holiday schedule or to report a missed pick up of household garbage, recycling, or yard debris.
Holidays include:
- New Year’s Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
For more information, click here.
Ware County
The county is serviced by Republic Services.
There will be no collection on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
Service will run one day late, so Monday customers will be collected on Tuesday, and so on for the week of Christmas.
For specifics on your service area, enter your address in the search at https://www.republicservices.com/schedule.
Brantley County
The county is serviced by Republic Services.
There will be no collection on Christmas Day.
Service will run one day late, so Monday customers will be collected on Tuesday, and so on for the week of Christmas.
For specifics on your service area, enter your address in the search at https://www.republicservices.com/schedule.