Henrico County, VA Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Henrico County Code Ch. 17 has no holiday clause. Sec. 17-56(b) says the county manager may prescribe rules and regulations for county refuse collection, so the holiday calendar lives in the Department of Public Utilities Solid Waste page, headed 2026 Refuse Collection Schedule, not in the ordinance text. The delegation runs to the county manager, not to the DPU director.

For the rest of 2026 the page lists these dates. Labor Day (September 7, 2026): no collection, 1-day delay all week. Veterans Day Holiday (November 11, 2026): no collection, 1-day delay remainder of week. Thanksgiving Day (November 26, 2026): no collection, 1-day delay remainder of week. Christmas Day (December 25, 2026): no collection, 1-day delay remainder of week. New Year's Holiday (January 1, 2027): no collection, 1-day delay remainder of week.

The wording matters. Entries that say "all week" shift every collection day from the holiday onward, including days that fall earlier in that week. Entries that say "remainder of week" shift only the days after the holiday. The page prints the phrase for the New Year's entry of January 1, 2026 as "1-day remainder of week" with the word delay missing, and the entry for July 4th reads "July 3, 3026" with a typo in the year. That entry says Normal Collection, so no delay is posted for the July 4th holiday.

Collection hours are printed as 7 a.m. until routes are completed, so set your cart out early on a delayed day as well as a normal one. The Solid Waste office keeps hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and answers holiday questions at (804) 501-4275.

This schedule covers county refuse collection only. Under Sec. 17-58 the county supplies a supercan to each single-family residence receiving county service and charges a bimonthly rate of $36.00 per single-family residential unit. The Charles City Road and Springfield Road Public Use Areas keep their own separate list of observed holidays, which is a different set of closures from the curbside calendar. Henrico has no incorporated towns, so Short Pump, Glen Allen, Highland Springs and Tuckahoe all follow this one county calendar. The City of Richmond is a separate independent city with its own collection rules.