Syracuse, NY Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Section 14-18(a)(1) builds a standing one-day delay into Syracuse's weekly household waste schedule for a defined list of holidays: Christmas, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving Day. collects household waste every seventh day, for example every Tuesday; when one of the seven listed holidays falls in that collection week, pickup automatically shifts to the following day unless the commissioner sets a different arrangement for that year. Because recyclable materials are set out on or before the same day as trash under Section 14-18(e)(1), a holiday shift to household waste pickup carries the recycling collection along with it.

does not treat the holiday delay as a discretionary courtesy; it's written into the ordinance itself, so residents whose route falls on a holiday like Labor Day can expect their regular collection day to move one day later that week rather than being skipped. The rule doesn't extend to yard waste, which runs on its own separate quadrant-based monthly calendar under Section 14-21, or to special bulk pickups arranged individually under Section 14-18(c). 00 for a knowing and willful violation of the article.