Montgomery County, MD Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Licensees and their employees shall not collect solid wastes in Montgomery County prior to 7:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. on federal holidays and Sundays) nor collect solid wastes after 9:00 p.m. on any weekday (Monday through Sunday, including federal holidays); except that collections may be made at any time from business establishments such as commercial, industrial, institutional or other nonresidential use structures provided that there is no residential structure(s) within five hundred (500) feet of the solid wastes collection point. The director may waive these provisions in the event of a civil emergency for a period of seventy-two (72) hours or less.

(c)   The licensee must disclose on each invoice or other request for payment any pass- through to the customer of a charge paid for use of any solid waste acceptance facility and any pass-through of a systems benefit charge. Each charge must be stated on a per-ton basis. Each invoice or other request for payment must separately identify any collection charge or systems benefit charge. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1992 L.M.C., ch. 39, § 1.)