Put your trash day in your calendar.

Check your address. Under the collection days on the result there is an Add to Calendar button. Choose your calendar app and it subscribes to a small calendar named for what it holds — for example "Trash and recycling days · TrashDayNow" — with one all-day event per collection day.

The calendar is a subscription, not a one-time import: your phone re-fetches it on its own schedule, so it keeps going without you doing anything. Remove it from your calendar app whenever you like; there is nothing to cancel.

Each event carries a reminder six hours before the day begins — 6 p.m. the evening before. Apple Calendar shows it as it is. Google Calendar and Outlook use their own notification settings for subscribed calendars, so turn on notifications for this calendar once in its settings.

A service gets a calendar entry when its published schedule is a plain weekday pattern — every Tuesday, or every other Wednesday with a known start. A service whose schedule the city publishes as dates, or as a rule that changes month to month, does not get an entry, because a calendar that guesses is worse than none.

Holiday changes are not in the calendar. A holiday week keeps your regular day in the calendar, and your city's rule for that week is on the holiday rules page and in the notice the city posts. This is deliberate: cities decide holiday changes late and differently, and a calendar that moved a day on its own would be wrong somewhere every holiday.

The calendar link carries your city, state, the services, the day pattern, the source's name and a random subscription code — not your street address. The code lets us count subscriptions and, on our side only, keep the calendar tied to the property it was made for; it is never linked to a name. When your calendar app fetches the link, we log the city, state, service, calendar app type and the code so we know where the reminders are relied on. That is all.