Question by Ya Ya Vegas: Do cities have an obligation to provide curb side recycle for yard waste?
As spring is not here but winter clean up has begun we are asked to curb side our leaves and twigs in separate stacks and the city comes by to pick them up. I have never had that before retiring. We were responsible to do that ourselves? Does your city offer curbside recycle for lawn and or yard waste?
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Answer by #patty#
Our town has one in the spring and one in the fall, they even pick up small appliances and furniture.
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My city has never done trash (or recycling) pick up; we have to pay a trash company to come and get the trash every week. We’ve been recycling for many many years now–used to be that newspapers and magazines (2 different piles) had to be tied up with string and left out by the curb, cardboard had to be cut down to at least a certain size, glass had to be in a paperbag separate from the “PETE” acceptable plastics. Now, if you don’t recycle, you can get fined by the city. We have a garbage can (provided by the refuse company) just for compost, another for other recycling and a third for non-recycling.
Yes. We can put out the yard waste bagged or roped out with the trash for pick up. We also have a blue bin for bottles/cans/plastics. We have to call for special pick-up if we want them to take certain applicances, tools etc. during regular trash pick-up. We pay taxes so they are obligated.
My town and most other California towns recycle everything.. Every week we set out a clean green can, with lawn, tree and plant clippings. We also recycle junk mail, newspapers, glass, plastic and aluminum. The trash company supplies the recycle and black garbage bins. We usually put the garbage out every 2 or three weeks, as with everything else getting recycled there is not much left over..We also have ewaste recycling..any thing with a plug can be taken there or once a year the city will pick it up and take it to the ewaste recyclers..Hazzardous waste is taken 2 or 3 times a year to a certain place for disposal..Paints, weed/bug killers medications etc. I guess the city doesn’t have an obligation to pick up your clean green, but it makes good compost and saves space in the landfill dumps so it is good that they do.
ours does for a price. Wish it was free or every person was automatically charged. Our nutty neighbor either throws his over our fence to we have to take care of it or shoves it down the storm sewer because he’s too cheap to pay for pick up. I finally had enough last year and when he left I picked it all up from the sewer and what he threw in our yard and piled it up on his front steps. He couldnt get into his house because the pile was so high. Boy you heard the cussing half way down the block.
Don’t live in the city, but the closest city does, and I believe it’s to the benefit of all the citizens.
My city does that every week. They’ll pick up anything except hazardous chemicals. You just call and leave your address and they pick it up on Friday. They have a million picky little rules about how it has be bagged, stacked, etc…but it is free.
Out town has a spring clean up and once a week they pick up yard waste. Also After a wind or ice storms they will come around and pick up branches , limbs & such.
yes it’s practiced frequently.
yes,we have pick up in spring and again in l8 fall,for the leaves.it doesnt cost extra.
In my city they pick it up once a week, and the branches have to be cut to 4 feet or less and tied in bundles. They make compost from it and give it away to people who pay for city services.
In N.Y. we have pick up 2 time s a year,
we have to put the stuff out by the road
not in my town they make you pay for that type of service,I still haul it off myself the land fill dose not charge if we hall it ourselves.Not yet anyway