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Waste
& Recycling
Lakeland contracts with All Star
Waste Systems for the collection
and disposal of residents'
household rubbish, garbage, and
yard and brush waste. For these
services, a fee is added to your
monthly
utility bill from Memphis
Light, Gas and Water that
includes weekly collection of
refuse, yard waste/limbs and
recyclables.
To request service,
contact City Hall at 867-2717. To determine your collection day for refuse and recycling,
contact City Hall or
see
Trash
Schedule (PDF).
REFUSE
COLLECTION SCHEDULE
All refuse
and recycling
will
be collected on the same day, either
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, as
noted on the
Trash
Schedule (PDF).
Please call
All Star Waste Systems
(854-8865) or the City of
Lakeland (867-2717) if you have
any questions about your day of
pickup.
•
Holiday Schedule: There will be
no pickup on New Years Day,
Martin Luther King Day, Memorial
Day, Independence Day, Labor
Day, Thanksgiving, or Christmas.
If your scheduled pickup day
falls on or after one of these
holidays, collection of your
trash will be delayed one day.
• Preparation: Containerize/bag
all household trash, rubbish and
yard waste. It is important that
you place your roll cart at the
curb by 7:00 am in order to
ensure timely pickup. All-Star
drivers will document
occurrences when carts are not
out at time of collection.
• Containers: It is required
that you use the All Star
95-gallon roll cart for refuse, 18-gallon bin for
recyclables, and supplied cart
for yard waste. Should you have
additional refuse that will not
fit into the cart, please bag
it and place it on top of the cart
or next to the cart. However,
these bags cannot weigh more
than 40 pounds each. Limbs must
be cut to lengths of 2 feet or
less and piled at curbside.
• Collection Point: Garbage,
rubbish, yard waste and
recyclables will be retrieved
from your curbside. Large piles
of yard waste cannot be placed
under overhead obstructions such
as power lines or trees. Large
amounts of yard waste must be
placed at least six feet away
from obstructions such as
mailboxes, water meters, trees
or shrubs.
Acceptable
Materials
All Star
will pick up acceptable household garbage and
rubbish, yard waste, limbs and recycled items.
Please do not put hot coals or
ashes in your container.
Remember, the liability remains
with you.
No construction materials, rocks,
dirt or concrete will be collected. Car batteries, paint, tires, large auto
parts and dead animals are also unacceptable.
Limbs or brush will not be picked
up if less than 2 feet in length,
larger than 10 inches in diameter,
or left by a contractor.
All Star is unable to collect materials which are classified as hazardous or liquid waste. Please
note some household cleaners and solvents fall under this category. Read label instructions for proper disposal. You may contact the Shelby County Environmental Improvement Office at 379-7020 or visit the
Shelby County Environmental Program Department
web page for hazardous/liquid waste disposal tips and special drop-off dates.
Shelby County's Household
Hazardous Waste Collection
Facility is open to the public on
Tuesdays and Saturdays, 8:30 am -
1 pm, at 6305 Haley Road (off
Shelby Farm's Farm Road, between Walnut Grove and Mullins
Station, next to the Penal Farm/ Shelby County Corrections Center).
Home healthcare items such as syringes and needles are not acceptable. We suggest you contact the Shelby County Health Department at 544-7600 for information on the proper way to dispose of any of these items.
Small appliances may be placed
in your 95 gallon roll cart or
left at the curb with regular
trash. If you have large
appliances or furniture weighing
more than 75 pounds, you should
call All Star (854-8865) to
arrange a special pick-up. Any
appliances, such as
refrigerators or air
conditioning systems, containing
refrigerants, will not be picked
up unless drained and tagged by
a licensed technician. When
purchasing such appliances, it
is strongly recommended you make
sure the seller will dispose of
the old item at the time of
purchase.
The
following items may be recycled
but containers must be empty, clean of
food and rinsed (labels do not have to be
removed):
- Glass:
Food or beverage jars and
bottles made of brown, green or clear glass.
- Metal: Tin cans, steel cans and tin- plated food and
beverage containers of all sizes.
- Aluminum
or Foil: Used aluminum beverage containers, TV dinner trays,
foil and other foil packaging
that are clean of food.
- Plastic:
Only plastics stamped with PET, PETE or HDPE
and 1 or 2 are acceptable. Milk jugs, soda bottles, water and juice jugs, detergent
and soap bottles (with caps and labels)
are usually a type 1 or 2
plastic.
- Paper: Old newspapers and inserts, magazines, brown
paper bags, junk mail (be careful with personal information),
office paper, phone books and computer paper.
- Cardboard: Only small,
uncoated boxes that have been broken
down. Cereal and shoe boxes are acceptable.
The
following items cannot be recycled
at this time: Motor oil or antifreeze containers, flower pots or trays,
soaked or extremely yellowed newspaper, wet or previously wet
magazines, wax- or plastic-coated cardboard boxes, Styrofoam
containers or packing pellets, plastic grocery
or dry cleaning bags (however,
plastic bags can often be recycled
at grocery or discount stores).
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