Household garbage is collected twice a week (Monday/Thursday or Tuesday/Friday), with recycling and yard waste weekly. Find your days with the county's Resident Information Tool. When a holiday hits your day, collection slides one day for the rest of the week.
Use the county's Resident Information Tool (or the collection map) at mymanatee.org to look up your two garbage days plus recycling and yard-waste days. Set carts out by 6 a.m. When an observed holiday falls on a collection day, all services move one day later for the remainder of that week, resuming normally the next Monday. Up to two large bulk items (furniture, mattress, tires) can go at the curb with your regular garbage for free.
No monetary penalty is specified; place garbage, recycling, and yard-waste carts at the curb by 6 a.m. on your collection day for pickup.
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