Holiday festivities are prompting schedule changes for DeKalb County residents regarding trash collection. The DeKalb County Sanitation Division has announced its plans for Christmas and New Year’s, meaning some residents may need to hold onto their holiday trash a bit longer. According to a post on the DeKalb County official website, there will be no trash pick-up on Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, or New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025.
Most residents will not experience changes to their trash collection service at the beginning of Christmas and New Year’s weeks. According to the DeKalb County announcement, both Monday, December 23, and Monday, December 30, as well as Tuesday, December 24, and Tuesday, December 31, will follow their regular schedules. However, waste services will pause for the Wednesday holidays, meaning residents with collection days on December 25 and January 1, 2025, will have their bins emptied the following day. As a result, those typically serviced on Wednesdays will need to wait until Thursday, December 26, and Thursday, January 2, 2025.
Further adjustments will affect those with Thursday collections. If your regular trash day falls on December 26 or January 2, 2025, you should plan to set out your waste on Friday, December 27, and Friday, January 3, 2025, instead. This one-day delay also applies to residents whose collections are normally scheduled for Fridays during the holiday weeks.
There's more than just the curbside collection being put on hold; all of DeKalb’s sanitation facilities, including the Central Transfer Station, North Transfer Station, and Seminole Road Landfill, will be closed on December 25 and January 1, 2025. The administration building, Customer Care call center, and Commercial Services will join in observing the shutdown. Operations are set to resume on Thursday following each holiday, during regular business hours. Those looking for more information or needing assistance can reach out to the Customer Care team at 404-294-2900, by email at [email protected], or by following @DKalbSanitation on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
