City of Lawrence to alter trash pickup schedule for week of Labor Day

A solid waste operator collects trash in this 2014 Journal-World photo.

The City of Lawrence will alter trash and recycling pick up and other solid waste services for the week of Labor Day.

Trash and recycling collection will be delayed by one day for all residential customers during the holiday week, Sept. 5-10. Regular Monday residential customers will have collection services on Tuesday, Sept. 6; Tuesday customers on Wednesday, Sept. 7; Wednesday customers on Thursday, Sept. 8; Thursday customers on Friday, Sept. 9; and Friday customers on Saturday, Sept. 10.

Additionally, during the holiday week, the following changes to solid waste collection services will take place:

•No yard waste collections throughout the holiday week.

•No bulk item pickups throughout the holiday week.

•No roll-off dumpster services on the holiday or Saturday of the holiday week.

•No cart/dumpster swaps, deliveries or maintenance on the holiday or Saturday of the holiday week.

Commercial solid waste collection routes will be collected on schedule for the week, with the exception that there will be no cardboard recycling service on Monday, Sept. 5, outside of the downtown district. The city’s compost facility will be open as normal on Saturday, Sept. 3, which will be its monthly city-Load event. For more information on the facility’s operations, including city-load events, visit lawrenceks.org/swm/compost-facility.