Providence, RI trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Friday.

Recycling: Friday.

Friday is what one Providence address returned on October 26, 2026.

A holiday landing on a collection day pushes that pickup and the rest of that week one day later.

Carts may be put to the curb after 4:00 pm on the day preceding your collection day.

By midnight of collection day the carts must be removed from the curb and stored in an area that is not viewable from the street.

Place carts no more than three feet from the street, at least three feet apart from each other, and away from obstacles such as mailboxes and telephone poles.

Cart handles and wheels should face the house while the arrows on the lid face the street, and the lid must close tightly with no material sticking out.

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

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

The example days above are read from City of Providence Department of Public Works and were last checked on October 26, 2026.

Providence follows the most common pattern: collection slides a day after a holiday. The city's published rule: A holiday landing on a collection day pushes that pickup and the rest of that week one day later.

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

Providence publishes its own address-level collection lookup, City of Providence Department of Public Works. There is no single citywide weekday: the day depends on the address, and the lookup above reads City of Providence Department of Public Works' answer for the exact address you enter.

We last checked Providence on August 17, 2026: 6 of 6 addresses returned an exact collection day. The days they returned were Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That is what our check saw, not a full list of Providence's pickup days.

City of Providence Department of Public Works publishes trash and recycling days for Providence; this page last read them on October 26, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with City of Providence Department of Public Works, not here.

The nearest guides to Providence are East Providence, Cranston, Pawtucket and Warwick. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.