East Honolulu residents who still have bulky items on their sidewalks in anticipation of a scheduled pickup two weeks ago are being asked to be patient as refuse workers catch up after the holidays.

The city Department of Environmental Services is asking those residents who had been scheduled to have bulky item pickup on Dec. 25 and 27 to give refuse workers until the end of this week to remove the items “in order to catch up on the extensive amount of items set out during the holidays.”

The monthly bulky item schedule calls for pickup of Sectors 7 and 8, which include nearly all of the area between Kahala and Hawaii Kai, on the fourth Monday and fourth Wednesday of each month.

But Christmas 2017 fell on the fourth Monday, one of the two days (the other being New Year’s Day) that refuse workers are off annually.

“Crews worked overtime following these two holidays to catch up on the regular trash,” city officials said in a release Tuesday. “Meanwhile, overtime is being used to complete these final two bulky item sectors.” No fines will be issued to residents in the two affected areas for bulky items that have been left out.