Pasco County, FL Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Trash frequency
- at least 2x per week
- Recycling frequency
- at least 1x per week
- Holiday notice required
- 2 weeks in advance
- Holiday defined by
- county facility closure day
- Complaint resolution window
- 14 calendar days
Summary
In unincorporated Pasco County, if your regular trash or recycling pickup falls on a legal holiday, your licensed hauler must move the stop to the next scheduled collection day rather than skip it. Haulers must warn customers and the county at least two weeks before any postponed or rescheduled pickup date.
...If the scheduled collection day for normal household solid waste or recyclable materials falls on a legal holiday, the collection service shall be provided on the next scheduled collection day for the specific material, unless the licensed hauler and the county agree to an alternate schedule. All affected customers and the county shall be notified at least two weeks in advance of any scheduled collection day that will be postponed or rescheduled. For the purposes of this subsection, legal holidays include those days when the county closes the solid waste and resource recovery system and does not accept solid waste from licensed haulers.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 94 Update 1 | Land Development Code: Supplement 20).
Full Breakdown
Pasco County franchises solid waste collection to licensed haulers under Code of Ordinances Chapter 90, Article II. Section 90-47 sets the operating standards those haulers must follow, including a rule for legal holidays: when a customer's scheduled collection day for household solid waste or recyclable materials falls on a legal holiday, the hauler must shift service to the next scheduled collection day for that material, unless the hauler and the county agree on a different alternate schedule. The section defines a legal holiday for this purpose as any day the county closes its solid waste and resource recovery system and stops accepting waste from licensed haulers, so the holiday calendar tracks the county facility's closure schedule rather than a generic federal list.
Before any pickup is postponed or rescheduled, the hauler and the county must notify all affected customers at least two weeks in advance, giving residents in Wesley Chapel, Land O' Lakes, Hudson, Trinity, Odessa and other unincorporated communities time to plan around a shifted collection day. The standard sits alongside baseline service levels also fixed in Section 90-47: household trash collected at least twice weekly and recyclables at least once weekly, with at least a two-day gap between trash pickups. Residents whose hauler fails to shift or notify them properly can raise the issue with the county, which tracks each hauler's complaint log monthly.
Violations & Fines
A hauler that skips a holiday-shifted pickup or fails to give the two-week advance notice is in violation of Chapter 90 and can be cited under Section 1-6 of the Code, with each day of noncompliance treated as a separate violation under Section 90-34. Unresolved residential complaints, or a pattern of 100 or more complaints against one hauler in a calendar month, are grounds for the county to revoke that hauler's license in addition to any citation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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