Jacksonville, FL Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Collections cut for holidays
- Not allowed
- Reschedule requires
- Director of Solid Waste approval
- Notice method
- Daily-circulation newspaper publication
- Contractor's holiday list
- Must match the Department's
Summary
Duval County's waste contractor can't just skip a route because of a holiday. Sec. 382.405(b) of the Ordinance Code requires Director approval and published newspaper notice before any holiday-affected pickup gets rescheduled.
Collections shall not be reduced by holidays, but collections normally scheduled to be made on a holiday may be rescheduled upon approval by the Director of Solid Waste and Resource Management and notification to the affected residential premises by publication of notice in a newspaper of daily circulation in the City... The contractor shall not observe any holiday different from those observed by the Department.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 6 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Jacksonville's residential waste contractors operate under Sec. 382.405 of the Ordinance Code, which sets weekly garbage, trash and yard-trash collection as the baseline. Subsection (b) covers holidays directly: service isn't reduced just because a route falls on a holiday. A holiday-affected pickup can be moved, but only with approval from the Director of Solid Waste and Resource Management, and only after the City publishes notice in a newspaper of daily circulation so affected residents know before the date changes. The same subsection also stops the contractor from inventing its own holiday calendar, it has to observe the same holidays the Department observes, nothing extra.
Violations & Fines
This binds the contractor, not residents directly. A contractor that reschedules a holiday route without Director approval and published newspaper notice, or that skips collection outright for an unapproved holiday, is out of compliance with Sec. 382.405(b).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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