Columbus, OH trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Thursday, Oct 29; Thursday, Nov 5; Friday, Nov 13; Friday, Nov 20.

These dates are what one Columbus address returned on October 26, 2026.

This address is on Columbus's Pink trash color. Pink pickup moves one day later after each holiday the city observes and keeps the new day (a Friday moves to the next Monday; there is no Saturday pickup). The dates above follow the city's 2026 rotating holiday calendar.

Recycling is collected every week and yard waste every other week, each on a set day of its own that is often not your trash day; the city's Find My Collection Day page and the PickUp CBUS app show both.

City code requires trash to be bagged and tied before it goes in the container, and only what's inside the container gets collected.

Containers must be out by 6 a.m. on collection day and removed from the collection point by early afternoon the day after.

Bulk items such as furniture are collected free, but only after you schedule a bulk collection with the city.

The city-issued container belongs to the address, not the household — if you move, it stays with the property.

Read from the official Columbus guidance on August 17, 2026; the linked source governs if anything here has changed.

Pickup days in Columbus depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.

Some Columbus addresses are on no route in the city's refuse map, such as many commercial and industrial parcels. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.

The example days above are read from Columbus PickUp CBUS collection calendar and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Columbus has a rule of its own. The city's published rule: There is no trash pickup on the 11 holidays the city observes. If your home has a trash color (Gold, Gray, Navy, Pink or Ruby), your pickup day moves one day later after each of those holidays and keeps the new day; a Friday color moves to the next Monday, and there is no Saturday pickup. We have not found a city holiday rule for homes on a fixed weekday route, so in a holiday week check the city's PickUp CBUS calendar for your address. Recycling and yard waste keep their own day: in a holiday week, a pickup on or after the holiday runs one day later (Friday moves to Saturday); the city's PickUp CBUS calendar lists Indigenous Peoples' Day and Veterans Day as not moving them.

The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the rule means for each if Columbus observes it. The city's own calendar governs which holidays it observes.

The city says nearly all Columbus households have a trash color: Gold, Gray, Navy, Pink or Ruby. Each color is picked up on one weekday, and that weekday moves one day later after every holiday the city observes and keeps the new day, so a color home's pickup day changes during the year. Other homes are on a fixed weekday route that does not rotate; the city's route map shows these on some streets, including parts of German Village, and at many apartment and multi-unit sites. The lookup reads the city's route map for your address: for a color home it lists the next dates from the city's 2026 rotating holiday calendar, and for a fixed route it gives the weekday.

We last checked Columbus on August 17, 2026: 10 of 12 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Columbus's pickup days.

This page reads Columbus's trash days from Columbus PickUp CBUS collection calendar, last on October 26, 2026. This page does not take missed-pickup reports or post service alerts.

Columbus PickUp CBUS collection calendar provides address-based collection information for eligible Columbus properties.

The nearest guides to Columbus are Grove City, Dublin, Delaware and Lancaster. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.