Hempstead, NY Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Town Code Chapter 128, Article I sets separate schedules for garbage and rubbish. Garbage is collected every scheduled day, but rubbish (twigs, branches, bundled yard debris and bagged refuse) is limited to the second and third collection days of each week. from collecting rubbish on the first scheduled collection day after a legal holiday, and separately states that no rubbish will be collected in any week where a legal holiday falls Monday through Friday, again citing the doubled garbage volume that week. In practice this means an entire holiday week's rubbish slides to the next week's second and third collection days.

Leaf collection follows the same seasonal pattern under Section 128-7A(3)(e): leaves are normally picked up on the second and third collection days of each week, but that pickup is likewise skipped during holiday weeks. Christmas trees are treated differently: Section 128-7A(3)(d) allows them to be placed at the curb and collected by regular or special collection during the month of January, without needing to be cut down to the four-foot bundling length that applies to other tree material. the night before collection. Because the holiday suspension applies to the whole affected week rather than a single missed stop, residents whose rubbish day falls anywhere in a week touched by a Monday-Friday holiday should expect no rubbish pickup until their next scheduled rubbish day the following week.