Time to take out the trash? How Thanksgiving changes Midlands garbage pickup schedule
Most town, city and county offices will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.
That’s great if you’re an employee and are looking forward to a few days off. It’s not as good if you’re looking to get that stinky trash stuffed with turkey gizzards and leftover cranberry sauce out of your house.
That’s because most trash pickup routes will also be affected by the holiday week.
Most area trash pickups are normally scheduled on Thursday and Friday in the Midlands. The services that are regularly offered in Richland and Lexington counties, as well as Columbia and the Town of Lexington will not be running on Thanksgiving Day.
But the good news is they will still pickup trash and recycling on an adjusted schedule. Many will push back their routes a day, but a few are starting early, so you’ll have to plan ahead to have your trash can on the curb or be stuck waiting another week to have a growing pile of garbage taken away.
Here is an adjusted schedule for some of the Midlands major trash routes:
Richland County
- Trash pickup scheduled for Thursday will be picked up Friday
- Friday’s trash will be picked up Saturday
- The County landfill and the Lower Richland Drop-off facility will be closed Thursday and Friday and will return to a regular schedule on Saturday
Columbia
- All garbage and recycling pickup scheduled for Thursday will be rescheduled for Wednesday
- All garbage and recycle pickup will resume to regular schedule on Friday
Lexington County
- Collections normally scheduled for Thursday will be made on Friday
- Those scheduled for Friday will be collected on Saturday
- All other service days will be collected as normal
- This includes pickups of household waste, yard trash and recycling collections normally scheduled
Town of Lexington
- All garbage and recycling pickup scheduled for Thursday will be rescheduled for Friday
- All garbage and recycle pickup for Friday will be rescheduled for Saturday
West Columbia
- Customers normally receiving sanitation services on Thursday will have their garbage, trash and recyclable items collected on Wednesday
- Yard trash will not be collected until the following week
- Customers normally receiving sanitation services on Friday, will have their garbage and recycling collected on Monday