Heads up, folks: those trash bins you've been filling up with holiday leftovers and freshly unwrapped gift wrappings are gonna have to sit tight for a bit longer than usual this festive season. City News reports that the residential garbage and recycling schedule in Fort Worth is getting a bit of a tweak due to the upcoming Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Here's the scoop: no collections will happen on Thursday, Dec. 25, or Thursday, Jan. 1, so if you're normally slated for trash pickup on those days, you'll need to drag your bins out on Friday instead, that means folks with Friday pickup are pushed to Saturday - this pattern keeps us on our toes just like the holiday season itself. Alongside this shift, you're getting the green light to heave out two extra bags of garbage without extra charge for your first collection day following each holiday, which should help ease the burden of your festive fallout.
As for the specifics, if you roll your carts out on Monday through Wednesday, you're sticking to the script with no changes. Thursday and Friday folks, brace yourselves for the aforementioned one-day delay. According to the City News announcement, all this holiday schedule shake-up will shake itself out by Monday, Jan. 5, when normal service resumes.
If you find your extra bags of trash still curbside while your carts have been emptied, no need to get your tinsel in a tangle, because a separate truck might be swinging by for those, which might not be at the same time as your carts, it could come later, so patience is the key word here. In case your extra bags seem to have been given the cold shoulder by day's end, then do reach out to Fort Worth's 311 service for assistance.
And if the holiday haul leaves you with more waste than you know what to do with, the city's not leaving you high and dry. The Drop-Off Stations and the Environmental Collection Center (ECC) are options to ditch the excess, but mind you, they're taking a holiday too; they'll be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. They'll be back in action the day after each holiday, ready to take on whatever you couldn't cram into those two additional bags. City News has the details on where to find Drop-Off Station or ECC locations near you.
