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Dublin Trash Pickup Schedule

This Dublin trash pickup schedule covers a suburb that keeps things simple compared to its Columbus neighbor: one collection day, one hauler, and a yard waste route that never takes a season off. Here's exactly how the Dublin trash pickup schedule works for garbage, recycling, and yard waste, plus what changes around the two holidays the city currently publishes as schedule-impacting.

Dublin contracts its curbside collection out to Rumpke Waste & Recycling rather than running trucks with city crews, which is why the container rules look a little different from cities that issue matching carts to every household. New residents in particular tend to have questions about whether they need to buy a can, whether recycling gets picked up the same day, and what actually happens the week a holiday lands on a Wednesday or Monday - this guide walks through each of those in order, using only what the city's own trash and recycling page and yard-waste page publish.

How often is trash picked up in Dublin?

The Dublin garbage collection schedule collects garbage, recycling, and yard waste on a fixed weekly rhythm, with Rumpke Waste & Recycling running the routes under contract with the city.

Dublin's yard waste route runs every week of the year with no scheduling needed and no seasonal shutdown - that's unusual among nearby cities, most of which pause yard waste over winter.

Because Rumpke runs the routes under a city contract rather than Dublin operating its own fleet, the trash and recycling side of the service moves in lockstep - both streams share the same truck day, which keeps the schedule easy to remember even though it isn't looked up by individual address. Yard waste runs on a completely separate Monday route with its own truck, which is part of why it can keep going year-round without competing for capacity against the Wednesday trash and recycling collection.

Find your exact pickup day

Unlike cities that split collection across color-coded zones, the Dublin curbside collection schedule uses one citywide day for every address - Wednesday for trash and recycling, Monday for yard waste. No official address-lookup tool was found because none appears necessary; residents with questions can call the Service Center or use the GoDublin app.

View Dublin's official collection page →

Missed a pickup? Report it through the GoDublin app any time between 3 PM on your collection day and 3 PM the following day.

That reporting window - starting at 3 PM on collection day and running until 3 PM the next day - gives crews a buffer in case a route is running behind schedule rather than genuinely skipped. If you're not sure whether your street has simply been reached late in the day, it's worth checking again before 3 PM rather than assuming a miss right away, since Rumpke's routes don't always hit every street at the exact same time each week.

Containers & placement rules

Dublin gives residents two options for a trash container rather than issuing one automatically:

• Supply your own metal or plastic can or barrel with two handles and a tight-fitting lid, filled to no more than 50 lbs
• Lease a container from Rumpke for $3.25 per month (residents cannot purchase a container directly from Rumpke)
• Yard waste goes in biodegradable paper bags or a rigid, labeled container - no plastic liners of any kind
• Christmas trees are collected on Mondays throughout January, undecorated, unbagged, and cut to 4 ft or shorter
• Branches and twigs for yard waste must be bundled under 2 ft wide, tied, no longer than 4 ft, and under 50 lbs per bundle

The city's official page does not publish a specific gallon-volume limit for trash containers, only the 50-lb weight cap, and it does not disclose how the base collection service itself is billed or funded beyond the container-lease and appliance fees below.

A few general placement habits go a long way regardless of which container option you choose. Set trash and recycling out the night before if mornings are tight, since collection can start as early as 7 AM and trucks don't wait. Leave a few feet of clearance around each container so the automated or semi-automated arm on the truck has room to grab it, and keep containers off the street itself - curb or tree-lawn placement is standard. If Ohio wind is a concern, a container with a genuinely tight-fitting lid (rather than one that's just resting on top) will save you a walk down the block collecting scattered trash on collection morning.

Dublin Trash Holiday Schedule

The Dublin trash collection calendar holiday mechanic is a same-week, single-day shift rather than a whole-week delay. For 2026, the city's official page currently lists only two holidays as schedule-impacting:

Dublin's official page does not publish a full-year holiday list - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, and July 4th are not mentioned as causing a delay. Rather than assume those days run on the normal schedule, confirm directly with the city (614-410-4750) if your regular pickup falls on or near a major holiday.

This is one area where Dublin's page is noticeably leaner than what larger neighboring cities publish - Columbus, for example, lists a full eight-holiday rotation with its own color-coded system. That gap doesn't necessarily mean Dublin's crews work every other holiday as scheduled; it more likely means the city hasn't published guidance for those dates yet, or handles them with short-notice announcements rather than a standing published policy. Either way, the safest approach around Thanksgiving week or the days surrounding Christmas and New Year's is a quick call to the Service Center rather than assuming Wednesday collection will run exactly as usual.

What goes in each bin

A free drop-off alternative for yard waste is available at Kurtz Bros., 6279 Houchard Road, if you'd rather haul it yourself between collection days.

Bulky waste pickup

Bulky item collection is scheduled through the GoDublin app rather than picked up on a fixed recurring route. Standard bulky items appear to be included in regular service with no separate fee stated, but they need prep before they'll be taken: boards, fencing, paneling, and carpet must be cut into 3-ft lengths, nails/staples/screws removed, and material tied into bundles no wider than 18 inches and no heavier than 50 lbs. CFC-containing appliances - refrigerators, freezers, and dehumidifiers - cost $65 each because they require separate refrigerant handling; Rumpke's appliance line is 800-828-8171. The city's page does not publish an annual frequency limit for bulky pickups.

Because scheduling runs through the app rather than a fixed calendar, it's worth requesting a pickup a few days ahead of when you actually need the item gone, especially around moving season in spring and late summer when demand for bulky collection tends to spike across the whole metro area.

Reporting illegal dumping

Dublin does not maintain a dedicated illegal-dumping page. Violations are handled by Code Compliance: call 614-410-4600 for the general line or 614-410-4647 to reach a supervisor, or file a report through the GoDublin app or the city's online portal.

New to Dublin? What to check first

If you've just bought or rented a home in Dublin, the container question is the first thing to sort out, since the city itself doesn't hand you one automatically the way many neighboring communities do. Decide early whether you'll supply your own can or lease one from Rumpke for $3.25 a month, because a container that isn't set up correctly by your first Wednesday can mean a missed first pickup. It's also worth saving the GoDublin app to your phone right away - it's the tool the city points to for both scheduling bulky pickups and reporting a missed collection, and there's no separate phone-only workaround for either.

It's also worth building the Monday yard-waste day into your routine even if you don't plan to use it right away - lawn crews and landscapers working on a new property often generate more yard debris in the first few months than an established household does, and knowing you have a weekly, year-round outlet for it (rather than a biweekly or seasonal one, which is what many nearby cities run) can save a trip to the Kurtz Bros. drop-off site on Houchard Road.

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Compared with a large city like Columbus just a few miles south, Dublin's trash program trades flexibility for simplicity - one day, one hauler, and a yard waste route that never pauses, but also fewer self-service tools like an address-lookup site or a published full-year holiday calendar. For most residents that trade-off means less to remember week to week, as long as you keep the GoDublin app handy for the two situations - bulky item scheduling and missed-pickup reporting - where a phone call or app request is genuinely required rather than optional.

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