Portland, ME trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Thursday.

Thursday is what one Portland address returned on September 17, 2026.

Portland runs 3 collection days a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; the route covering your street sets which one is yours.

Some Portland properties are not on city collection at all — apartments, businesses and streets served by a private hauler. Where that is the case we say so, rather than show a day that is not yours.

These days are read from City of Portland, Maine — Department of Public Works and were last checked on September 17, 2026.

Portland publishes its collection routes as a map (City of Portland, Maine — Department of Public Works): every property sits inside a route area, and each area carries a fixed weekday for trash; the lookup reads that area for your address and turns the city's route codes into plain weekdays.

We last measured Portland on September 17, 2026: 5 of 6 addresses returned an exact collection day, and 1 was outside city collection, served by a private hauler instead. Across those addresses collection ran Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

City of Portland, Maine — Department of Public Works publishes trash days for Portland; this page last read it on September 17, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Portland, Maine — Department of Public Works, not here.

The nearest guides to Portland are Haverhill, Beverly, Salem and Nashua; each sets its own routes and holiday rule at the town line.