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

The County does not write its holiday calendar into the Code of Ordinances. Section 19-41 authorizes the Board to enter into collection service agreements with a qualified person or entity for the exclusive collection of residential waste and program recyclables from residential property within the curbside collection area, and those agreements can address the matters described in Article II of Chapter 19. The working holiday rule therefore sits in the County-hosted WM Curbside Collection Guidelines, which the Osceola County Solid Waste Department publishes on osceola.org.

That document names three holidays with no collection at all: New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. For the three dates residents search for this season, Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, 2026, Christmas is Friday, December 25, 2026, and New Year's Day is Friday, January 1, 2027. The guidelines say collection services will be delayed by one day for the remainder of the week, and regular collection schedules resume the following week. If a holiday falls on a weekend, collection service is not impacted.

The guidelines print the rule only as a standing policy. They give no year and no list of dated exceptions, so they do not spell out which weekday each household's pickup moves to. What the flyer does print is the framework: garbage, recycling, yard waste and bulk waste are collected one time per week, and all items must be curbside by 6 a.m. on your scheduled collection day. That weekly frequency matches Code § 19-4(b), which gives curbside customers collection of household waste, yard waste, bulky waste and program recyclables once each week. Chapter 19 defines a scheduled collection day as a calendar day on which the contractor is scheduled to provide curbside collection service, and the contract administrator, the county's director of public works or a designee, oversees the service agreement.

Yard waste during the holiday season follows the same limits as the rest of the year: WM collects up to 3 cubic yards or 10 containers or bags each week, and the flyer asks residents to remove decorations from Christmas trees. The service line is (407) 605-3892. The service area is the unincorporated county, which includes Celebration, Poinciana, Buenaventura Lakes, Four Corners and Harmony, not the cities of Kissimmee or St. Cloud.