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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 16, 2023

Presidents Day, Monday, February 20, 2023

Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2023

Juneteenth, Monday, June 19, 2023

Independence Day, Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023

* Indigenous Peoples' Day, Monday, October 9, 2023 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)

* Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11, 2023 (NORMAL SCHEDULE)

Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, 2023