San Francisco, CA trash pickup by address.

Recology runs collection as normal on most holidays; only certain observed holidays move that day's customers to the following service day.

Carts belong as close to the street curb as possible, and where curb set-out genuinely is not practical the hauler will work out an alternative service location with the household.

Extras are capped at 10 bags or bundles per pickup for each material stream, and drivers use discretion on anything that will not fit inside the three carts.

Extra recycling goes beside the blue cart in a cardboard box or paper bag, and cardboard has to be broken down no larger than 2 by 2 by 2 feet.

Extra yard trimmings sit next to the green bin in a paper bag or tied with string, kept to about two feet by two feet, and the bin lid must still close fully.

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

Some San Francisco 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.

San Francisco runs on most holidays, and names the short list that changes. The city's published rule: Recology runs collection as normal on most holidays; only certain observed holidays move that day's customers to the following service day.

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

San Francisco publishes its own address-level collection lookup, Recology San Francisco. There is no single citywide weekday: the day is set per property, and the lookup above reads Recology San Francisco's answer for the exact address you enter.

We last measured San Francisco on August 17, 2026: 0 of 3 addresses returned an exact collection day, and 3 were outside city collection, served by a private hauler instead. Across those addresses collection ran .

Recology San Francisco publishes collection days for San Francisco; this page last read it on September 11, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with Recology San Francisco, not here.

The nearest guides to San Francisco are Oakland, South San Francisco, Berkeley and San Bruno; each sets its own routes and holiday rule at the town line.