{"id":120876,"date":"2026-02-23T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:59:18","slug":"philadelphia-to-delay-trash-recycling-pickup-by-2-days-because-of-snowstorm-city-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120876\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia to delay trash, recycling pickup by 2 days because of snowstorm, city says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trash and recycling collections in Philadelphia will be suspended for two days this week because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live-updates\/philadelphia-weather-blizzard-warning-state-of-emergency-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">major snowstorm hitting the region<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to the storm, sanitation crews and equipment will be diverted to snow operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For this week, Monday collections will be picked up Wednesday, and Tuesday&#8217;s collections will be picked up Thursday. Collections for the rest of the week will continue in the same sequence, with trash picked up two days behind the regular schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city says there will also be no collection in rear driveways, and the collection schedule could change depending on the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second-day trash collection is suspended this week, according to the city. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This storm could drop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/south-jersey-snow-philadelphia-winter-storm-weather-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">8-14 inches of snow<\/a> overnight Sunday into Monday morning. The city is under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/snow-emergency-declared-philadelphia-winter-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">snow emergency and a disaster emergency<\/a> because of the storm. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/disaster-emergency-declared-pennsylvania-dangerous-winter-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disaster emergency declaration<\/a> for the state as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trash and recycling collections in Philadelphia will be suspended for two days this week because of the major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,29512,31316],"class_list":{"0":"post-120876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-snow-emergency","12":"tag-trash-collection"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}