San Marcos, CA trash pickup by address.

Trash / garbage: Wednesday.

Recycling: Wednesday.

Yard waste: Wednesday.

Wednesday is what one San Marcos address returned on October 6, 2026.

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

The example days above are read from EDCO San Marcos (the City's contractor) and were last checked on October 6, 2026.

San Marcos runs on most holidays, and names the short list that changes. EDCO's published rule: EDCO does not collect on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day. When one of these falls on a weekday, pickups on and after the holiday run one day late for the rest of that week (Friday moves to Saturday); earlier days are unchanged, and a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday causes no delay. On other holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Juneteenth and Veterans Day, collection runs as normal.

The dates below are the federal holidays left this year, with what EDCO's published schedule means for each of those weeks.

The days on this page were measured against real San Marcos addresses and checked against EDCO San Marcos (the City's contractor).

We last checked San Marcos on October 6, 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 San Marcos's pickup days.

EDCO San Marcos (the City's contractor) publishes trash, recycling and yard waste days for San Marcos; this page last read them on October 6, 2026. Service alerts, cart standards and missed-pickup reports belong with EDCO San Marcos (the City's contractor), not here.

The nearest guides to San Marcos are Escondido, Vista, Encinitas and Carlsbad. Who collects, and on which days, can change at the boundary, so use the guide for the place your address is in.