Blue Hill, NE Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Blue Hill's weekly garbage, trash and waste pickup runs under Blue Hill Municipal Code § 7-503(B), which requires the city's contracted hauler to collect from every residence, church, and government or commercial building once every week. That section builds in a specific accommodation for holidays: if a holiday occurs on a weekday, the collection ordinarily made on that day by the contractor is made on the preceding or the next succeeding day instead. The ordinance does not list which holidays trigger the shift or pin down whether the make-up run happens before or after the holiday in every case; instead, the contractor is separately required, under the same section, to file a written schedule of its collection routes and days with the city clerk, which is where the specific make-up day for an affected route is set out.

The rule only moves the day of pickup: it does not authorize skipping a week's collection altogether, and residents are still billed the normal weekly collection charge on their monthly utility statement regardless of which day in a holiday week their route is actually served. Because the shift applies to the collection ordinarily made on that day, only the specific route whose regular day coincides with the holiday is affected. All other collection provisions of § 7-503, including the weekly frequency, the excluded materials and the curbside placement rule, continue to apply during a holiday week exactly as on any other week.