Escambia County, FL Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

The county code sets the floor. Section 82-131(1) requires franchised collectors to pick up residential waste other than rubbish at least twice per week and rubbish at least once per week, and it adds that pickups shall not be reduced by holidays. A pickup normally scheduled on a holiday can be rescheduled, but only with approval by the board of county commissioners, and the affected premises must get at least five days of prior notice through a one-time display ad in a newspaper of daily circulation in the county. The code names no holidays and prints no dates, so the actual calendar comes from the collector.

The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) posts that calendar on its Residential Customers page under the heading "2026 Escambia County Residential and Commercial Holiday Collection Schedules." ECUA says it provides garbage, recycling, and yard trash pickup to residential customers within the area of Escambia County. For Thanksgiving, the page lists Thursday, November 26, 2026 and Friday, November 27, 2026, with two lines: Thursday collection will be made on Friday (11/27/26), and Friday collection will be made on Saturday (11/28/26). For Christmas, listed as Friday, December 25, 2026, Friday collection will be made on Saturday (12/26/26). For New Year's Day, listed as Friday, January 1, 2027, Friday collection will be made on Saturday (1/2/27).

The page prints a "No Change" line for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 19, 2026), Presidents' Day (Monday, February 16, 2026), Memorial Day (Monday, May 25, 2026), Independence Day (Saturday, July 4, 2026) and Labor Day (Monday, September 7, 2026). Earlier in the year, New Year's Day 2026 on Thursday, January 1 moved Thursday collection to Friday (1/2/26) and Friday collection to Saturday (1/3/26).

The schedule prints no standing slide rule for the rest of a holiday week, and it says nothing about Veterans Day, Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. Only the lines above are printed, so any route not named on them carries no posted change.