Jackson, MS Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Jackson does not write a holiday calendar into its Code of Ordinances. Chapter 106 leaves scheduling to the director of public works: Sec. 106-113(a) requires householders to set out garbage "on garbage pickup days which have been designated by the director," and the chapter's definitions make the director the head of the public works department or his designee. The holiday rule itself is published by the Solid Waste Division, part of the Public Works Department, on the City's Garbage Collection Schedule page at jacksonms.gov, under the heading Holiday Collection.

That page states the baseline first: your regular collection day for trash and recyclables during the holidays will not change unless your collection day falls on or after one of five holidays. It then lists the five: New Year's Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Its example says that if your normal collection day falls on or after one of those holidays, your garbage will be collected on the following collection day.

The page prints no calendar dates and no year. It is a standing rule, so it applies every year. For the 2026 and 2027 holidays residents search for, the calendar facts are these: Thanksgiving Day is Thursday, November 26, 2026, Christmas Day is Friday, December 25, 2026, and New Year's Day is Friday, January 1, 2027. Only the shift rule comes from the City. The page does not name the exact replacement date for any one street, so the safest reading is the page's own wording: after the holiday, your next scheduled collection day is the day your garbage is picked up.

Service runs twice per week for single family homes, duplexes and triplexes. The first collection day is for household garbage only. The second collection day takes household garbage plus 2 bulk items and bagged leaves. The City's bulk item list includes furniture, mattresses and box springs, radios, televisions, couches and toilets. Sec. 106-113(a) still governs set-out: containers go within five feet of the traveled portion of the street before 7:00 a.m. on the designated day, and empty containers must come off the street promptly after pickup, in no case later than 9:00 p.m.

Service begins when water and sewer service is established, which residents arrange at the Water Service Business Administration, 1000 Metrocenter Drive, Jackson, MS 39209. Questions go to City Hall, 219 S. President Street, or the non-emergency line at (601) 960-0794.