Cortez sanitation crews will start residential trash collection an hour early Thanksgiving morning, beginning routes at 5 a.m. instead of the usual 6 a.m.
Sanitation Superintendent Colby Earley said Thanksgiving is the only day of the year crews start before 6 a.m. to allow employees to finish early and spend time with family. Residents with Thursday service should set out their trash the night before or by 5 a.m. Commercial collection will not change during the holidays.
During Christmas week, residential routes will run one day early:
- Tuesday pickup will be Monday.
- Wednesday pickup will be Tuesday.
- Thursday pickup will be Wednesday.
No trash will be collected Christmas Day. Earley said residential recycling will not be collected on Thanksgiving or Christmas but will resume the following week on regular days.
“I will run double trucks the following week for recycling, so you put out as much as you want, and we’ll get it,” Earley said.
For New Year’s, trash service will run on its normal schedule for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Earley encouraged residents to call the sanitation office with questions about their holiday pickup schedule at (970) 565-7320.
