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Kent
Citizen
Username: Kentgib
Post Number: 23
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 6:14 pm: | 
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Help. We are new to town and don't know how the pickup for grass clippings works. Can we just leave bags with them on the curb and will they get picked up, or.....?????
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Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 3325
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 8:42 pm: |
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what, you haven't searched the forum for your answer?
I guess the answer you seek depends on what town you live in.
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Kent
Citizen
Username: Kentgib
Post Number: 24
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:04 pm: |
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You right I didn't search for this one. I live in South Orange. Looked on the village website, but couldn't decipher it. |
wnb
Citizen
Username: Wnb
Post Number: 382
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:22 am: |
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Believe me, the rules are not easy. Different times of year they are different rules. It is enough to drive you crazy.
In the spring there is a time where the town picks up clippings. They require those clippings to be in the brown paper bags. Then, some time later (and I think we're in this time now), SO Disposal, the folks who pick up your trash (without you having to haul it out to the curb!) take over the job, now THEY require the clippings be put into PLASTIC bags and hauled out to the curb, and they pick those up once a week on the second scheduled trash pickup day of the week, whatever your schedule is.
Then, in the fall, the town picks up the leaves, in this case you don't bag them at all, you pile them in the gutter on the street and they come around with a scooper to get them all up.
At any time you may also haul your own stuff down to the recycling center and drop it off yourself. That is the stuff that they accept at the recycling center.
All this is explained somewhere, actually I think several somewheres, and you have to piece it all together.
There's a lot more strangeness about it all, for instance the recycling pickup will NOT take cardboard from the curb, but you CAN take cardboard yourself to the recycling center, but SO Disposal WILL pick up cardboard with your trash if you bundle it.
Then there's the huge green recycling toter which you would think is for bottles & cans, but it's not, it's for newspapers, which never made much sense to me. If you're like us you'll have 2 big cans you'll buy yourself to hold all the bottles and cans, then you'll have the big green toter with a few newspapers stuck to the bottom. Oh and those need to be put out on the curb the second Thursday night after the first full moon of the month.
Trying to do a search on this site to get that kind of definitive answer is a fool's errand. Do yourself a favor and pick up the phone and just give town hall a ring. A two minute conversation with the right person would get you the real answers you need.
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Kent
Citizen
Username: Kentgib
Post Number: 25
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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WNB thanks for the info. I agree this really doesn't make much sense, but there you go. |
Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 910
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 11:27 am: |
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WNB,
Glad to know the newspaper to bottles ratio is similar at your house. I was beginning to feel like an uninformed alcoholic.
Also, Kent, I leave a few beers out with the garbage cans. Everything is taken every time.
J.B. |
tomp
Citizen
Username: Tomp
Post Number: 45
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 2:31 pm: |
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Great, JB. Now, when I see the recycling truck weaving down the street, I'll know why. |
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