Richland County, SC Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Richland County does not write a holiday collection calendar into its Code of Ordinances. Chapter 12 opens with Sec. 12-1, which says the task of solid waste management is discharged by the Director of Public Works, and the holiday rule lives on the County's own Trash and Recycling page, under the heading Curbside Holidays. That page gives one standing rule: if your collection day falls on a curbside holiday, it simply moves to the next day.

The page limits the rule to a named list. Curbside only takes New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. A day off that is not on that list, such as a federal or state observance the County does not name, is not a curbside holiday under the page, so your collection day stays put.

The second half of the rule covers weekends. If a holiday is on the weekend, the schedule doesn't change. That means a Saturday or Sunday holiday does not push the following week's collection days back, and no make-up day is announced for it.

The County prints no calendar dates on this page, and no year appears in the rule. It is a standing rule, so the same six holidays and the same next-day shift apply every year until the County changes the page. For the day-by-day schedule for your own address, the County points residents to the free Richland County Solid Waste App, which features a curbside collection schedule with notifications and reminders, plus a Waste Wizard database of household items with recycling and disposal instructions.

The same page covers a separate situation. If road conditions become a threat to crew safety, service can be suspended and resumes where it left off when safe. That is a weather rule, not a holiday rule, and it works independently of the six curbside holidays.

This page applies to curbside service in unincorporated Richland County. Residents of the City of Columbia, Forest Acres, Blythewood, Eastover and Irmo are served under their own governments' schedules, not the County's.