Lakewood, WA Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

130 lists exactly six holidays that shift the collection calendar: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. When any of those days falls on what would otherwise be a customer's regular pickup day, and the contractor observes the holiday instead of running its route, the section requires the contractor to make up the missed service on an alternate day, defined as the day immediately following the regularly scheduled service day. That definition explicitly includes Sundays, so a holiday that pushes collection into a Sunday still gets serviced rather than skipped to the following week.

028, which does carry an extra dispatch charge when the customer asks for service outside the regular schedule. 06, and it applies to the contractor's regularly scheduled routes for garbage, recycling and yard waste alike, since none of those sections carve out a separate holiday rule of their own. 040.