Haverford, PA Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Section 95-20(D) of the Haverford Township Code is the holiday rule. In a week when a holiday falls on a regular collection day, trash will be picked up in accordance with a modified schedule posted on the Township website and as shown on your recycling calendar. The code text does not fix a particular day shift; the adjusted days live in the posted schedule and the calendar, so the website and the calendar are the controlling references for any holiday week.

The regular schedule that the holiday week modifies is set in the same section. Trash is collected twice weekly in accordance with the schedule on file in the office of the Department of Public Works at the Township Administration Building under § 95-20(C). Containers go out no later than 5:00 a.m. and no earlier than dusk the night before, and collections begin at 6:30 a.m. under § 95-20(A) and (B). Those set-out times stay the printed rule on a modified-schedule day.

Two other sections explain why the schedule can move. Section 95-13(C) authorizes the Department of Public Works to make regulations concerning the days and hours of collection and disposal, and § 95-15(B) authorizes the present officers of the Township to regulate days of collection and to change the regulations after notice as required by law. Recycling follows the same publication duty: under § 95-24(B), paper and commingled recyclables are collected once each week, except for emergencies, and the Township establishes a regular schedule of refuse and recycling collections that is published and distributed to residents. Bulk waste pickups are arranged separately under § 95-16, which sets requests due online by 10:00 a.m. or in person by 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday in advance of a Wednesday collection.