Just in time to get to get rid of that stuff you couldn’t sell at the yard sale and you can’t even give away.  PLEASE tell your neighbors of this free opportunity to de-clutter their yard, house, garage, deck, etc.

Once a year, the county partners with Choice Waste Services to donate dumpsters to communities for a few hours to help dispose of certain items free of charge.

Items that are NOT accepted in the dumpsters:

• Mattresses / box springs
• Car/Truck Tires
• Car/Truck batteries
• Food waste (no kitchen garbage)
• household cleaners,
• oil, fuel, propane tanks
• Railroad ties
• Medical hazardous waste
• Freon (including freon appliances (fridges and freezers) and tanks)
• Liquid or flammable products (paint can be dried up with kitty litter)

Items that ARE allowed:

Housewares, clothing, most appliances (including old/broken TVs), bikes, yard waste, furniture, storm debris, and remodeling debris. Hope that helps.

To help answer any questions about the items that are not accepted, here are the why’s, explained:

• These items are not allowed in the dumpsters because, ultimately, Choice doesn’t take them.

o   For each mattress or box spring there is a $250 fee from the landfill that is passed along on the invoice.  They damage landfill equipment.

• Currently the Southern Area Convenience Center, located at 6700 Landfill Dr is still taking mattresses and box springs.
• They are limiting mattresses and box springs to a certain amount for each residential household, per year.

o   The landfill will not accept tires at all since they need to be recycled at another facility.

• The Convenience Centers do accept regular-sized tires, though for a fee and then hauls them by bulk to a tire recycling facility.

o   Freon requires a recovery technician to safely handle the freon and/or pressurized tanks.

• The Convenience Center accepts Freon and Freon appliances (such as refrigerators) for $15 each and contracts a Recovery Technician to handle them.

o   Liquids leak out of the dumpsters onto the roads and often make a big mess.

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