{"id":15517,"date":"2025-11-24T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-adjusts-trash-schedule-for-thanksgiving-and-christmas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:11","slug":"cortez-adjusts-trash-schedule-for-thanksgiving-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-adjusts-trash-schedule-for-thanksgiving-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez adjusts trash schedule for Thanksgiving and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2692067b-e748-50ea-93b5-64d9671f6d01&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2016\" alt=\"A Cortez residential recycling truck makes the rounds. Residential recycling does not run on holidays. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Cortez residential recycling truck makes the rounds. Residential recycling does not run on holidays. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>During Christmas week, residential routes will run one day early:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">Tuesday pickup will be Monday.Wednesday pickup will be Tuesday.Thursday pickup will be Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=74099c1d-b164-5a3b-934c-0a8835eb1168&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2057\" alt=\"A route driver clears loose debris from the back of a Cortez sanitation truck during regular collection. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A route driver clears loose debris from the back of a Cortez sanitation truck during regular collection. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd623b5c-1150-51ab-a9df-36f173dd96ca&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1502\" height=\"1779\" alt=\"City sanitation workers load large piles of items during a community cleanup. Cortez holds cleanup events each May and October, and residents can visit the city website for participation details. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">City sanitation workers load large piles of items during a community cleanup. Cortez holds cleanup events each May and October, and residents can visit the city website for participation details. (Photo\/Courtesy of Cortez)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cI will run double trucks the following week for recycling, so you put out as much as you want, and we\u2019ll get it,\u201d Earley said.<\/p>\n<p>For New Year\u2019s, trash service will run on its normal schedule for New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Earley encouraged residents to call the sanitation office with questions about their holiday pickup schedule at (970) 565-7320.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday schedule includes 5 a.m. start on Thanksgiving and no service on Christmas Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19699,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517\/revisions\/19699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15517"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}