There is no trash or recycling pickup in Chelsea on Wednesday, November 11, Veterans Day. The city’s 2026 holiday schedule moves every route for the rest of that week back one day: Wednesday routes are collected Thursday, November 12, Thursday routes on Friday, November 13, and Friday routes on Saturday, November 14. Monday and Tuesday routes are not affected.
The Department of Public Works lists the change on its trash, recycling and yard waste page: “Trash pickup is delayed one day for Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday routes the week of November 11th.” The city’s 2026 Trash Delay and Yard Waste Calendar marks November 11 as a holiday with no trash or recycling collection and November 12 and 13 as one-day delays for both trash and recycling.
Which day is your route?
Collection day depends on the street, and some long streets are split by house number. Wednesday routes include Addison Street, Orange Street, Watts Street, Lynn Street, Albion Place and the upper numbers of Shawmut Street, Shurtleff Street, Sixth Street, Spruce Street and Willow Street. Thursday routes include Summit Avenue, Warren Avenue, Prescott Avenue, Parker Street, Silk Street, Tudor Street, Vernon Street, Willard Street and Spencer Avenue from 11 to 182. Friday routes include Washington Avenue from 350 on, Revere Beach Parkway, Sagamore Avenue, Union Street, Woodlawn Avenue, Nichols Street and the streets around Prattville and Mill Hill, among them Murray, Normandy, Overlea and Winthrop Road. The full list is on the city’s street-by-street lookup page.
Barrels and recycling bins go to the curb after 5 p.m. the day before or before 7 a.m. on the collection day. Questions go to 311 or (617) 466-4209.
Two more yard waste weeks
The holiday week is not a yard waste week. The last two curbside yard waste collections of 2026 are the weeks of November 16 to 20 and November 30 to December 4, on each street’s regular trash day. The city takes loose leaves or paper yard bags placed in barrels. It does not collect plastic bags or branches. Yard waste in approved bags can also be dropped at the City Yard, 380 Beacham Street, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and most Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.
Later in the year
Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, pushes Thursday and Friday routes back one day, to Friday, November 27 and Saturday, November 28. Christmas, Friday, December 25, moves Friday routes to Saturday, December 26. The remaining holidays of 2026 fall on days that do not change the other routes.
Veterans Day itself brings two city ceremonies, at the Massachusetts Veterans Home at Chelsea on Tuesday morning and at the Clark Avenue Middle School on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Details are in our Veterans Day story and in the week ahead.