Gilbert, AZ Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

The Town of Gilbert answers the holiday question directly on its official Trash, Recycle and Bulk Pickup Schedules page: "Holidays never affect your weekly trash and recycling pickup days." The same page says curbside collection runs every week, Monday through Friday, with Zone A on Monday, Zone B on Tuesday, Zone C on Wednesday, Zone D on Thursday and Zone E on Friday. A holiday that lands on your day does not move your collection to the next day or push the whole week back. The page prints no holiday dates and no list of shifted days, because the rule has no exceptions to list.

The delegating code section is Code of Gilbert § 66-291(a), which says "The days and hours of collection pickup shall be designated by the director." Subsection (b) of that section requires regular refuse service once a week for single-family dwelling units, and subsection (c) requires bulk trash collection on a regular recurring schedule whose times "shall be publicized." The code itself contains no holiday clause, so the town's published schedule is the operative rule.

Bulk trash is the only service a holiday touches. The bulk program runs every five weeks, except that in the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas "there is no bulk trash pickup." Bulk items go in the street against the curb no earlier than the Saturday before your collection week and no later than 5 AM on Monday of that week. Code of Gilbert § 66-288(d)(4) sets the same Saturday-to-Monday window at 5:00 a.m. and § 66-288(d)(2) caps a scheduled bulk pile at five feet by five feet by ten feet of combined yard waste and bulk trash.

Containers must be out by 5 AM on collection day. Crews work from 5 AM until the routes are finished, so leave both the trash and recycling containers out until they have been emptied; the two are picked up at different times. Because the bin schedule never shifts, the practical advice is to treat every holiday week like any other week for bins and to check your bulk week before Thanksgiving and Christmas.