City of Worcester, MA

Worcester Announces 2025 Trash and Recycling Calendar

For Immediate Release: 12/23/2024 1:42 pm

WORCESTER, Mass. – The City of Worcester announced Monday the trash and recycling calendar for the 2025 year. Whenever a scheduled collection day falls on a holiday, that day's collection and all remaining collections for the week will be delayed one day, as noted below.

The 2025 trash and recycling calendar includes seven holidays that result in a day delay for collection:

• New Year’s Day – Jan. 1
• Memorial Day – May 26
• Juneteenth – June 19
• Independence Day – July 4
• Labor Day – Sept. 1
• Thanksgiving Day – Nov. 27
• Christmas Day – Dec. 25

Holidays that will not result in a day delay:

• MLK, Jr. Day – Jan. 20
• Presidents’ Day – Feb. 17
• Patriots’ Day – April 21
• Columbus/Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Oct. 13
• Veterans Day – Nov. 11

Residents are advised to set recyclables and trash at the curb between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on your scheduled trash/recycling day.

Reminder that Worcester residents may dispose of Christmas trees at any of the drop-off sites listed below. The sites will be open from Dec. 26, 2024, through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025* during the following days and times, weather permitting:

• Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Sundays (Millbury St. location only): 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Drop-off sites:

• 1065 Millbury Street (next to the VFW Post)
• 300 Chandler Street (in the parking lot across from Foley Stadium)
• 299 Clark Street (near the East Mountain St. intersection)

*Sites will be closed for the New Year’s Day holiday on Wed., Jan. 1, 2025.