Who can participate:
• Trash-collection customers in single-family homes; residents of three-unit apartment buildings; or four unit, owner-occupied buildings.
Collection dates:
• April 17: People with Monday and Tuesday trash collections
• April 23: People with Wednesday collections
• April 30: People with Thursday collections
• May 7: People with Friday collections
What they take:
• Wood waste: Including brush and branches (left with the butt-ends facing the street) and leftover building materials.
• Bulky waste: Up to six items, including mattresses, carpet rolls, furniture
• Metals: Anything except auto parts and metals containing hazardous materials
• White goods: Household appliances, limited to one Freon-containing appliance such as a refrigerator or air conditioner and one TV or computer monitor
Don’t leave these things: Tires, automobile parts, liquids, volatile or hazardous materials, or anything that contains mercury
Crews will collect three cubic yards, or one truck load, of waste per household. Property owners are responsible for removing anything left behind. Waste items must be sorted by type neatly and kept separate from regular weekly trash.
Auburn, April 23-May 3
Who can participate:
• All trash residential trash customers
Waste should be placed at the curb at the normal trash collection sites by 7 a.m. on the day of collections. Crews won’t return to a street once they’ve completed it; waste left curbside too late won’t be collected.
Collection dates:
• April 23: People with normal Monday trash collections
• April 25: People with normal Tuesday collections
• April 27: People with normal Wednesday collections
• May 1: People with normal Thursday collections
• May 3: People with normal Friday collections
What they take:
• Wood waste: Including brush and branches (left with the butt-ends facing the street) and leftover building materials
• Bulky waste: Furniture, rugs, mattresses and up to four tires
• Metals: Anything except auto parts and metals containing hazardous materials
• White Goods: Washers, dryers, refrigerators and other small appliances
Don’t leave these things:
• Hazardous materials: Oil-based paint, pesticides, old gasoline
• Renovation leftovers: Roofing, siding or results of land-clearing
Waste materials should be sorted by type in neat piles and kept separate from other household waste. Individual items must be limited to what two people can lift. Crews will not collect more than one truckload per residence.
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