Holiday Schedule

 Milpitas Sanitation observes the following holidays:

  • Thanksgiving
  • Christmas
  • New Year’s Day

Customers may experience a delay in service when one of the holidays listed above falls on a weekday. During Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Day holiday week, service preceding the holiday is unaffected. Customers whose regular service day falls on the holiday or after, however, will receive service a day late. For example, during Thanksgiving week, only customers with Thursday and Friday service are affected. Thursday customers will have their containers serviced on Friday. Friday customers will have their containers serviced on Saturday.

Please click here for a Holiday Collection Schedule Chart.

Single Family Residential Holiday Tree Collection Program

On regular residential service days, from January 2 – 16, 2024, Milpitas Sanitation will collect clean green holiday trees from single family residents for composting. PLEASE REMEMBER:

  • Place tree curbside on your scheduled collection day.
  • Remove all decorations, lights, & the stand.
  • Cut tree in half if taller than 6 feet.
  • Please do not place tree in any type of plastic wrap or bag.
  • Small trees may be placed inside your green yard trimmings cart if you prefer. Please cut into small pieces that won’t get stuck in the cart and make sure the lid will fully close.
  • Flocked trees accepted, but will not be composted. Artificial trees not accepted.

Multi-Family Holiday Tree Collection Program

Milpitas Sanitation will collect holiday trees from January 2 – 16, 2024. Clean green trees will be composted. There are 3 collection methods:

  1. Complexes with a large number of holiday trees can request a debris box for collection. Owners/Managers please contact us at: 408-988-4500 or click here to reserve your holiday tree debris box.
  2. Complexes with centralized collection services can designate a collection area for trees during the two weeks listed above. Please do not block access to your collection carts and/or bins. Click here to download a flyer you can use to let your residents know where to place their trees. 
  3. Complexes with cart service can place trees curbside for collection during the dates listed above.

PLEASE REMEMBER:

  • Remove all decorations, lights, & the stand.
  • Cut tree in half if taller than 6 feet.
  • Please do not place tree in any type of plastic wrap or bag.
  • Small trees may be placed inside your green yard trimmings bin/cart if you prefer. Please cut into small pieces that won’t get stuck in the bin/cart and make sure the lid will fully close.
  • Flocked trees accepted, but will not be composted. Artificial trees not accepted.

Questions? Contact us for assistance.