Plano, TX Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

The City of Plano publishes its trash and recycling holiday shifts on one rolling page, Holiday Hours, headed "Trash and Recycling Collection Make-Up Days." As updated Sept. 29, 2026, the page covers Thanksgiving, which it dates as Thursday, Nov. 26 through Friday, Nov. 27. It states the shift day by day: Monday collection on Monday, Tuesday collection on Tuesday, Wednesday collection on Wednesday, and Thursday collection on Friday. Nothing is skipped and nothing else moves. Only Thursday-route homes and businesses set their carts out a day later.

The page shows only the next upcoming holiday, so it does not yet list Christmas Day (Friday, Dec. 25, 2026) or New Year's Day (Friday, Jan. 1, 2027). The city states that hours are updated before each major holiday with impacted service. No Christmas or New Year's collection rule is published on the page today, so check it again after the Thanksgiving update.

The authority behind the page is in the Code of Ordinances. Section 18-5(b) sets the baseline: residential and non-franchisee commercial collection of solid waste and landscape waste is weekly and recyclable material is collected bi-weekly. It then adds that "the director has the authority to revise the collection schedules as deemed necessary for holidays or other compelling reasons." The environmental waste services division is the exclusive provider of solid waste, recycling and landscape waste collection for residential and non-franchisee commercial customers under § 18-5(a), so the make-up days apply to every city-served address.

Holiday weeks also change one container rule. Section 18-6(h) says that, except for city-designated holiday weeks, the city will not pick up any trash stored outside the residential solid waste container. During a city-designated holiday week, extra trash set out beside the container is not excluded by that subsection. The other container rules in § 18-6 still apply, including the closed-lid requirement in § 18-6(d) and the rule in § 18-6(g) that a container holding more than 200 pounds of solid waste will not be serviced.

For questions, the page lists the Plano Municipal Center, 1520 K Avenue, Plano, TX 75074, main phone 972-941-7000. It also links a separate PDF of 2026 City Holiday Observances for the full list of City of Plano observance days.