City of Lawrence Trash Pickup
2009 Schedule
|
Holiday |
Date |
Service |
Pickup Date |
|
New Years Day |
Thu, Jan 01 |
No Pickup |
Fri, Jan 02 |
|
Martin Luther King Jr. Day** |
Mon, Jan 19 |
No Pickup |
Tue, Jan 20 |
|
Presidents Day** |
Mon, Feb 16 |
No Pickup |
Tue, Feb 17 |
|
Good Friday |
Fri, Apr 10 |
No Pickup |
Mon, Apr 13 |
|
Memorial Day** |
Mon, May 25 |
No Pickup |
Tue, May 26 |
|
Independence Day |
Fri, Jul 03 |
No Pickup |
Mon, Jul 06 |
|
Labor Day |
Mon, Sep 07 |
No Pickup |
Tue, Sep 08 |
|
Columbus Day** |
Mon, Oct 12 |
No Pickup |
Tue, Oct 13 |
|
Veterans Day** |
Wed, Nov 11 |
No Pickup |
Thu, Nov 12 |
|
Thanksgiving Day** |
Thu, Nov 26 |
No Pickup |
Mon, Nov 30 |
|
Friday after Thanksgiving** |
Fri, Nov 27 |
No Pickup |
Tue, Dec 01 |
|
Christmas Day** |
Fri, Dec 25 |
No Pickup |
Mon, Dec 28 |
|
New Years Day |
Fri, Jan 01 |
No Pickup |
Mon, Jan 04 |
** Denotes Holiday
Heavy Trash Pickup
Heavy trash will be taken with your residential trash on the 1st trash pickup day each month. On your scheduled heavy trash pick-up day, you will be allowed up to 5 bags of trash and up to 2 heavy trash Items. Throughout the rest of the month you will be allowed to set out up to 6 bags of trash.
Eligible for Collection
- Furniture, Bicycles, Disassembled Swing Sets and other Large Toys
- Household Appliances: Refrigerators, Stoves, etc…
- Tree Limbs and Shrubbery tied In 3 Foot bundles no more than 3 feet around
- Up To 2 Automobile Tires BUT ONLY IF CUT INTO FOUR PIECES ALL THE SAME SIZE
Ineligible for Collection
- Construction or Demolition Debris: Concrete, Bricks, Cinder Blocks, Plaster, Roofing, etc.
- Dirt, Sod, Sand
- Paint Containers
- Auto Batteries
- Steel Fence Posts
- Gas Tank
- Oil Tank
- Car Parts
Questions or Problems?
If you have any problems with your trash pickup, please contact the Mayor’s Action Center for assistance.
City of Lawrence Recycling Program
The City of Lawrence provides bi-weekly curbside recycling pickup. This section contains detailed information about curbside recycling, ToxDrops, recycling for businesses, and recycling drop-off sites for residents.
2009 Recycle Schedule (90k PDF)
Curbside Collection for Residential Customers
Each private residence served by the City of Lawrence Sanitation Department may participate in the recycling program. To participate, simply take a large plastic trash container or any other type of sturdy container, mark it “Recycle” in large letters with permanent marker or paint, and use it as your recycling bin. Recycling containers should be set apart from your trash so that our city collectors don’t confuse the two.
The following list contains the items that may be placed in your bin.
- # 1 plastics – such as soda bottles, cooking oil bottles, peanut butter containers
- #2 plastics – such as milk jugs & detergent bottles Glass jars & bottles – clear, brown & green
- Aluminum beverage containers
- Steel beverage & food containers
- Newspapers & magazines
- Corrugated cardboard & press board such as cereal boxes (Please flatten all boxes)
- Newspapers, magazines, junk mail & white paper. All of these items are to be bundled & tied or placed in brown paper bogs that are then to be set on top of all other items in your bin – to keep items from flying out of your bins on windy days.
Please remove lids from plastics and glass containers and rinse all containers so as not to attract insects or animals.
Recycling is picked up on normal trash days, every other week. The recycling calendar can be picked up at the Lawrence Government Building.
Bins are the property of the City of Lawrence and should be left with a residential property when occupancy changes.
Yard Waste Composting
Between Oct. 1 & Nov. 31 clean yard waste can be left at the curb for composting. Please use recyclable paper yard waste bags -available at most grocery & hardware stores
Apartment, Condo and Mobile Home Dwellers
If you would like to recycle and your neighborhood is not served by the City you can drop your recyclables off at the Marsh parking lot at Oaklandon and Fox Road, or the Kroger parking lot at Pendleton Pike and Sunnyside.
Recyclables accepted at these sites include:
- # 1 plastics – such as soda bottles, cooking oil bottles, peanut butter containers
- #2 plastics – such as milk jugs & detergent bottles
- Glass jars & bottles – clear, brown & green
- Aluminum beverage containers
- Steel beverage & food containers
- Newspapers & magazines
ToxDrops
Materials may be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the first and third Saturday of each month at the IMPD Training Facility located at:
9049 East 10th St.
For more information on ToxDrop, call: 317.327.4TOX (4869)
Acceptable Household Hazardous Waste
Adhesives
Aerosol Cans
Air Fresheners
Ammonia
Asbestos Tile
Bathroom Cleaners
Brake Fluid
Button Batteries
Carpet Cleaners
Chlorine Bleach
Detergents
Fire Extinguishers
Floor Wax
Fluorescent Light Tubes
Furniture Polish
Gasoline
Glues
Herbicides
Household Batteries
Insecticides
Lead Acid Batteries
Lighter Fluid
Mercury
Metal Cleaners
Moth Crystals
Motor Oil, Used
Oven Cleaners
Paints
Paint Strippers
Paint Thinners
Permanent Markers
Pesticides
Plant Food
Pool Chemicals
Propane Tanks (< 20 lbs.)
Rat Poisons
Rock Salt
Soaps
Shoe Polish
Stain Removers
Solvents
Thermometers
Thermostats
Transmission Fluid
Upholstery Cleaners
Wood Preservatives
Wood Stains
Wood Varnishes
Acceptable Electronic Items
CPUs
Keyboards
Mice and Joy Stick Controllers
Modems
Printers
Monitors
Scanners
Gaming Accessories
UPS’s (external power supply)
Laptop PCs
External Tape and Disk Drives
Hard Drives
PC Cards and Circuit Boards
PC Speakers and Microphones
USB Devices
Cellular Telephones
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