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The alleys behind the houses in many DC neighborhoods are too narrow for snowplows to get through, which means trash collectors haven’t been able to get in to pick up residents’ trash for a week and a half now. Most households follow a once-a-week trash collection schedule. Use our Trash and Recycling Collection Day App  to find your collection day(s) when rubbish collection dublin will go by.

Please Note: If a resident living in a building with more than 3 residential units enters their address, clicking the button will return a trash day, but that does not supercede the City policy for residential trash collection. Those living in apartment buildings with more than 3 units do not receive trash collection services from the City.

Most households use the 96-gallon plastic rolling cart, or Supercan, for their trash. Homes in neighborhoods with narrow streets and alleys receive twice-weekly trash collection and use the smaller 32-gallon plastic rolling carts (mini-Supercan), or Clean City trash cans.

But DPW still wants to come get your trash! So they’re recommending that you put your trash in dark trashbags (instead of say, white ones that blend in with the snow) and then place them on the curb instead of in the usual receptacles back in the alley.

Also note that since Monday was a holiday, the trash pickup schedule is the regular holiday schedule (so as not to cause even further confusion by creating a Snowpocalypse/Holiday hybrid).

So get your dark trash bags and haul your garbage to the curb. Look on the bright side: at least it’s too cold for it to have smelled all that much.

Tiffany Bridge

Tiffany Baxendell Bridge is an Internet enthusiast and an incurable smartass. When not heckling the neighborhood political scene on Twitter, she can be found goofing off with her ukulele, Bollywood dancing, or obsessing about cult TV. She is That Woman With the Baby In the Bar.

Tiffany lives in Brookland with her husband Tom, son Charlie, and two high-maintenance cats. Read why Tiffany loves DC.