Garbage Collection

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Waste Management is responsible for your garbage collection service.  As your collection company, we are committed to providing you with responsive dependable and quality service.  To inform you about our services and guidelines, we present the following information:

Collection Date / Time: Your garbage collection days will be Wednesday and Saturday.  Please be sure your garbage is set out by 7:00 a.m. on your collection days.

Wednesday Service - 15 items (cans, bags, bundles)

Saturday Service - 15 items (cans, bags, bundles) + 2 Bulk items

Curbside Service:  Household garbage, grass clippings, leaves, branches and tree trimmings are collected at the curb.

Container Packaging:  Please package your household garbage, grass clippings and leaves in a type of container designed for use as a residential trash container such as standard lightweight metal cans, plastic cans or sturdy plastic trash bags.  Containers and bags should weigh no more that forty to fifty pounds (40-50 lbs.)

Important!  -  For the safety and protection of our employees and equipment, we don require that branches and tree trimmings be no greater than three inches (3") in diameter and be cut, tied and bundled in four foot (4') lengths weighing no more than forty to fifty pounds (40-50 lbs.)

Bulk Collection:  This additional curbside service is provided on the second collection day of each week for the removal of such items as moving boxes (please break them down and bundle them), old furniture and appliances.  Please note that we can no longer dispose of CFC refrigerant containing items (i.e., refrigerators, freezers, etc.) without certification that the Freon as been properly removed and recycled, pursuant to current Federal law.

Unacceptable Items:  For reasons of governmental restrictions, personnel or community safety and/or protection of equipment, the following items cannot be collected:  Gasoline, motor oil (and used filters), paint and other similar liquids (i.e. hazardous wastes); vehicle tires and batteries, and large pieces of metal such as car fenders and engines; and debris from construction and major remodeling such as carpeting, rocks, bricks, concrete, dirt, sand, gravel, roofing, limber, fence boards, large pieces of glass, etc., (these items should be disposed of by the contractor performing the work).

Potentially dangerous materials, such as sharp objects, glass, metal, etc., should be properly identified and separated from other trash and/or double wrapped to avoid potential injury to the loader.  Large pieces of glass will not be collected.

Holidays:  Holidays observed are: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.  There will be no service on these holidays.  Service will resume on the next regularly scheduled collection day.

Customer Service:  If you need assistance, please call 1-800-809-4885.  Our office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

(Revised June 2009)