Contact: Linda Grant, 202-671-2375

(WASHINGTON, DC)  The DC Department of Public Works will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 18; therefore, sanitation services and most parking enforcement will be suspended until Tuesday, January 19.

Sanitation services will be suspended for the holiday and will resume Tuesday, January 19.

• Trash and recycling collections in once-a-week collection neighborhoods will “slide” to the next day for the remainder of the week. 
• In twice-a-week collection neighborhoods, Monday’s and Thursday’s collections will slide to Tuesday and Friday.  Tuesday’s and Friday’s collections will slide to Wednesday and Saturday.
• DPW will continue to collect holiday trees and greenery through Saturday, January 23. Trees and greenery should be placed where the resident’s trash is collected and all ornaments, lights and tinsel should be removed.

The Ft. Totten Transfer Station* will be closed Monday, January 18 and reopen Tuesday, January 19 to residents between 1 pm and 5 pm.

Household Hazardous Waste/E-cycling drop-off is weekly on Saturdays, 8 am to 3 pm.  Personal document shredding will remain the first Saturday of the month (except holidays) only.  The next shredding drop-off is Saturday, February 6. Additionally, DPW will conduct a monthly weekday HHW/e-cycling drop-off the Thursday before the first Saturday of each month (except holidays).  The next Thursday HHW/e-cycling drop-off is Thursday, February 4, 1 pm to 5 pm. HHW/ E-cycling drop off and document shredding occur at the Ft. Totten Transfer Station.

On Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 18, DPW will enforce streetcar parking restrictions along the H Street/Benning Road, NE corridor.

“Blocked” Streetcar Parking Enforcement is daily, including weekends and holidays, e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and
Thanksgiving Day, along H Street and Benning Road, NE, between 3rd Street and Oklahoma Avenue, NE. On Sundays and holidays
enforcement is between 8 am and 11 pm. Enforcement on Mondays-Thursdays is 6 am to midnight; and on Fridays and Saturdays,
enforcement runs between 6 am and 2 am. Normal enforcement citywide resumes Tuesday, January 19. 

*Directions to Ft. Totten, 4900 John F. McCormack Drive, NE:  Travel east on Irving Street, NW, turn left on Michigan Avenue, turn left on John F. McCormack Drive, NE and continue to the end of the street.  Directions from additional locations can be found at Fort Totten transfer Station.