Columbus / Indigenous Peoples' Day — Monday, October 12
Falls on a Monday. Not one of the Town's no-collection holidays, so collection runs as normal.
Hamden, CT
Enter a Hamden, CT street address to check trash pickup as published by Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste).
Verified schedule
Trash / garbage: Friday.
Friday is what one Hamden address returned on October 7, 2026.
Your collection day
Pickup days in Hamden depend on your street. Enter your address above to see yours.
The example days above are read from Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste) and were last checked on October 7, 2026.
Holiday weeks
Hamden runs on most holidays, and names the short list that changes. The Town's published rule: There is no refuse or recycling collection on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Collection for that day and the days of the week following are delayed by one day; a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday leaves the schedule unchanged.
The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what the Town's published schedule means for each of those weeks.
Falls on a Monday. Not one of the Town's no-collection holidays, so collection runs as normal.
Falls on a Wednesday. Not one of the Town's no-collection holidays, so collection runs as normal.
Falls on a Thursday. Thursday collection moves to Friday and Friday's to Saturday.
Falls on a Friday. Friday collection moves to Saturday, December 26.
Good to knowRule transcribed from Town of Hamden, Solid Waste & Recycling (holidays); that source governs if the two disagree.
How days are assigned
The Town of Hamden's solid waste and recycling route map gives each street a collection day, Monday to Friday, with refuse and recycling on the same day; the lookup reads the route for your address.
Trash is collected weekly. Recycling is collected every other week on the refuse day, and All American Waste collects for the Town. The route map dates from 2019, with the Town's April 2023 street changes, and it also answers commercial and institutional streets, so the day is for residential curbside service. The lookup answers only inside the Town's own border, and near the line it checks the State's parcel map, so a home just over the line in North Haven, Cheshire or another neighbouring town gets no Hamden day, whatever its mailing address.
Some newer streets are missing from the map. For an address the map does not cover we say so rather than guess a day.
We last checked Hamden on October 7, 2026: 4 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 Hamden's pickup days.
Local source
Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste) publishes trash days for Hamden; this page last read them on October 7, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste), not here.
Good to knowChecked against Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste) in Oct 2026: trash.
Nearby
The nearest guides to Hamden are New Haven, Meriden, Waterbury and Stratford. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.
City of New Haven Department of Public Works.
Meriden published collection schedule (street list).
City of Waterbury Bureau of Refuse.
Town of Stratford Sanitation Department.
City of Bristol Department of Public Works.
City of Bridgeport Public Facilities, Sanitation Division.
Common questions
It depends on your street. The Town's route map gives each street its collection day, and the lookup above reads it for your address.
Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste) publishes trash for Hamden.
Hamden runs on most holidays, and names the short list that changes. There is no refuse or recycling collection on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Collection for that day and the days of the week following are delayed by one day; a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday leaves the schedule unchanged.
Local source
The Hamden address result links Town of Hamden (collection by All American Waste) directly.
Open local source (opens in a new tab)Hamden schedule lookup