Springfield, OR Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Section 4.406(1) of the Springfield Municipal Code handles holidays narrowly rather than through a citywide reschedule: on any day that precedes a legal holiday, the city's franchised garbage collector must make a special evening run, between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., to collect from butcher shops and other establishments whose garbage could become foul or offensive if left sitting through the holiday closure. That obligation sits alongside, not instead of, the collector's ordinary duties: weekly residential service and an 11:00 a.m. cutoff for offensive or wet business-district garbage on regular collection days, and a 48-hour response window for special hauling calls, all fixed in the same subsection.

The code contains no general provision moving residential collection day forward or back when a holiday falls on a scheduled pickup day, so a resident whose can day lands on a holiday should confirm timing directly with the franchised hauler rather than assume a citywide shift exists. Development and Public Works administers the solid-waste franchise, and the city manager oversees the franchise agreement under section 4.408 if service disputes arise. This is a Springfield, Oregon rule tied to the Lane County city's own franchise ordinance; it has no bearing on holiday schedules in Springfield, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri or Ohio, or in neighboring Eugene or unincorporated Lane County, each of which contracts separately.