Columbus / Indigenous Peoples' Day — Monday, October 12
Falls on a Monday. Not on the City's holiday collection chart, so garbage is collected on your regular day.
Appleton, WI
Enter an Appleton, WI street address to check trash pickup as published by City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division.
Verified schedule
Trash / garbage: Friday.
Friday is what one Appleton address returned on October 7, 2026.
Your collection day
Pickup days in Appleton depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.
The example days above are read from City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division and were last checked on October 7, 2026.
Holiday weeks
Appleton has a rule of its own. The city's published rule: During City observed holidays, garbage and recycling collection may be affected: the holiday pickup may not be on the same day or at the same time, so put carts at the curb the night before. The City's holiday chart gives each moved pickup by date, and garbage can move a day earlier or to the following Monday.
The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the city's own calendar does in each of those weeks.
Falls on a Monday. Not on the City's holiday collection chart, so garbage is collected on your regular day.
Falls on a Wednesday. Not on the City's holiday collection chart, so garbage is collected on your regular day.
Falls on a Thursday. Thursday's garbage is collected a day early, on Wednesday, November 25, and Friday's on Monday, November 30; Thursday's recycling is collected on Friday, November 27, and Friday's on Saturday, November 28.
Falls on a Friday. Garbage for Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25 is collected on Monday, December 28, and Monday's garbage that week on Tuesday, December 29; Thursday's recycling stays on December 24, and Friday's moves to Saturday, December 26.
Good to knowRule transcribed from City of Appleton Holiday Collection chart; that source governs if the two disagree.
How days are assigned
The City of Appleton's Property Info lists a garbage day for each parcel, Monday to Friday, and the lookup above reads it for your address.
Trash is collected weekly. The City of Appleton's Sanitation division collects residential garbage; Property Info lists a garbage day for every parcel, so a business or other non-residential property should confirm whether the City collects it.
We last checked Appleton on October 7, 2026: 5 of 8 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Wednesday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Appleton's pickup days.
Local source
City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division publishes trash days for Appleton; this page last read them on October 7, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division, not here.
Good to knowChecked against City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division in Oct 2026: trash.
Nearby
The nearest guides to Appleton are Oshkosh, Green Bay, Fond Du Lac and Sheboygan. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.
City of Oshkosh Sanitation Division.
City of Green Bay Department of Public Works.
City of Fond du Lac Department of Public Works.
City of Sheboygan.
City of Wausau Department of Public Works.
City of Brookfield (collection by GFL).
Common questions
It depends on your street. The City's Property Info lists each parcel's garbage day, and the lookup above reads it for your address.
City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division publishes trash for Appleton.
Appleton has a rule of its own. During City observed holidays, garbage and recycling collection may be affected: the holiday pickup may not be on the same day or at the same time, so put carts at the curb the night before. The City's holiday chart gives each moved pickup by date, and garbage can move a day earlier or to the following Monday.
Local source
The Appleton address result links City of Appleton Public Works, Sanitation Division directly.
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