Manatee County, FL Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Manatee County's Utilities Department, Solid Waste Division, prints one holiday rule for all three services. When a County-observed holiday falls on a regularly scheduled collection day, garbage, recycling, and yard waste are all picked up one day later than usual for the rest of the week. Normal service resumes the following Monday. The three streams share a single day, so the whole set of carts moves together.

The county lists eight observed holidays for 2026: New Year's Day (Thursday, January 1), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, January 19), Presidents' Day (Monday, February 16), Memorial Day (Monday, May 25), 4th of July (Saturday, July 4), Labor Day (Monday, September 7), Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 26), and Christmas Day (Friday, December 25). For the two winter dates residents search most, a Thursday, November 26 collection moves to Friday, and a Friday, December 25 collection moves to Saturday, because the page says everything slides one day for the rest of the week.

The page posts only 2026 dates. It does not list New Year's Day 2027, so no 2027 pickup date is printed there. Check the page again once the county posts its next list.

The legal footing is in the County Code of Laws. Sec. 2-16-31(c) of Chapter 2-16 gives residential customers one pickup per week for solid waste, yard waste, and program recyclables, and ends: "The specific collection days for each service area or portion of a service area shall be established by the authorized collector and approved by the director and may be changed from time to time." The Code carries no holiday clause of its own, so the department's published schedule is the operative holiday rule.

The schedule covers residents of unincorporated Manatee County only. The page tells residents of Trailer Estates, the City of Bradenton Beach, the Town of Longboat Key, the City of Palmetto, the City of Bradenton, the City of Holmes Beach, the City of Anna Maria, the City of Sarasota, or Sarasota County to check the collection schedule for their own utility. Your own collection day comes from the county's Resident Information Tool, a GIS map available online around the clock. Utilities Customer Service answers questions at (941) 792-8811.