Brooklyn Park, MN Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Recognized holidays
- New Year's, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas
- Weekday holiday
- That week's routes slip one day
- Weekend holiday
- No schedule change
- Collection on the holiday itself
- Never allowed
Summary
In the City of Brooklyn Park, garbage and recycling never run on the six legal holidays the code lists. If a holiday falls on a weekday, that day's collection and every collection day after it that week slides one day later; a holiday landing on a weekend does not change anything.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS. For the purposes of garbage and recycling collection, legal holidays are defined as New Year's Day (January 1), Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day (December 25). ... Holiday collection. In order to maintain consistent garbage and recycling collection practices, no garbage or recycling collection is allowed on legal holidays. If a legal holiday occurs on a weekday, garbage and recycling collection may not occur on that day and collection on the subsequent days of the week will be one day later than the regular collection schedule. If a legal holiday falls on a weekend day, garbage and recycling collection must be done according to the regular Monday through Friday collection schedule.
Full Breakdown
01 defines LEGAL HOLIDAYS for collection purposes as New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. 07(B) then sets the rule for those six dates: no garbage or recycling collection happens on a legal holiday, full stop. If the holiday lands on a weekday, that day's route does not run, and every collection day for the rest of that week is pushed back one day, so a Thursday holiday delays Thursday's route to Friday and Friday's route to Saturday.
If the legal holiday instead falls on a weekend, the code makes clear the regular Monday through Friday schedule holds with no shift at all, since no route was scheduled on the weekend to begin with. The rule exists to give the city's licensed haulers a predictable, uniform slip rather than a hauler-by-hauler patchwork, and residents on any route in the city see the same one-day delay pattern rather than a schedule specific to their hauler.
Violations & Fines
A hauler that collects on a listed legal holiday, or that fails to follow the one-day delay the code requires afterward, violates § 98.07 and is subject to the general chapter 98 penalty in § 98.99, which defers to § 10.99's misdemeanor penalty of up to 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine, in addition to possible license discipline under § 98.03 for departing from the city's adopted collection regulations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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