Holiday Schedules - Recycling/Trash Collections and Facilities

Our schedules apply to recycling and trash collection service provided by Montgomery County, Maryland, to single-family homes and townhomes. Check whether your address receives County-provided service.

If you live in a municipality, your holiday schedule for recycling or trash collection may be different from the County schedule. See recycling/trash contact information for municipalities.

All items to be collected must be out at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your collection day.

Which holidays are affected?

We do not make County-provided recycling or trash collection on these County holidays with the following exception: If the actual holiday falls on the weekend , but the County observes the holiday on the Friday before or the Monday after the actual holiday, there is no change in the collection schedule .*

• New Year's Day - January 1
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Day - third Monday in January
• Presidents Day - third Monday in February
• Memorial Day - last Monday in May
• Juneteenth - June 19
• Independence Day - July 4
• Labor Day - first Monday in September
• Veterans Day - November 11
• Thanksgiving Day - fourth Thursday in November
• Christmas Day - December 25

If a County holiday falls during the week (Monday – Friday), all collections scheduled on or after the holiday will be made one day later that week.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 17, 2022

Presidents Day, Monday, February 21, 2022

Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022

* Juneteenth, Sunday, June 19, 2022 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)

Independence Day, Monday, July 4, 2022

Labor Day, Monday, September 5, 2022

* Indigenous Peoples' Day, Monday, October 10, 2022 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)

Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, 2022

Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 2022

* Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2022 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)

* New Year's Day, Sunday, January 1, 2023 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)