Tulsa, OK Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)

Tulsa does not write holiday collection dates into its solid waste ordinance. Title 11-B, Section 103 directs the authority to "take such steps as are necessary to assure the collection, removal, transportation, and disposal" of solid waste, and Section 104 has the Director formulate operational rules and regulations for solid waste service providers. The Director is defined as the director of the streets and stormwater department. The holiday calendar itself comes from the City of Tulsa's published City Holiday Schedule and the Refuse & Recycling Trash Collection Schedule page, and those two pages are the source of everything below.

The City's 2026 table lists three holidays that move the route. New Year's Day fell on Thursday, January 1, 2026, and the table prints "Thursday customers will be picked up on Friday. Friday customers will be picked up on Saturday." Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, moves Thursday customers to Friday. The Day After Thanksgiving, Friday, November 27, moves Friday customers to Saturday. Christmas Day, Friday, December 25, moves Friday customers to Saturday. Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, is listed as regular trash and recycling service. The published 2026 table does not include a date for New Year's Day 2027, so no 2027 shift is stated by the City yet.

The standing rule applies to the weeks of New Year's, Thanksgiving and Christmas: when the holiday falls on a weekday, "the pick-up schedule will shift one day for the holiday and all the following days that week." The City's example is a Monday holiday, where Monday customers are served Tuesday and Friday customers are served Saturday. If a holiday falls on a Tuesday, Monday keeps regular service while Tuesday through Friday customers shift one day. The Trash Collection Schedule page names New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day as the holidays with no collection services.

The table marks these as regular trash and recycling service: M.L.K. Day (January 19), Good Friday (April 3), Memorial Day (May 25), Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day (June 1), Juneteenth (June 19), Independence Day observed (July 3), Labor Day (September 7) and Veterans Day (November 11). The same page also prints a service change: "Twice-a-week services will no longer be offered beginning Oct. 1,2026."