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Introduction.
Proper disposal of trash and recycling material is a critical component to
maintaining Salisbury's excellent quality of life and being good stewards
of our environment. The City of Salisbury Public Works provides
three services to our residents. These are:
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Trash Services. For more information, see the Trash
web page.
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Curb-side Recycling.
Please refer to the Recycle web
page for more information.
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Bulk Trash Pick-up. A detailed description follows.
The
Public Works Department provides a household bulk trash pick-up service to
City residents to remove large items and yard waste on a weekly basis.
Many municipalities either do not provide household bulk pick-up or
do so only two or three times a year.
We cannot pick-up landlord evictions.
Non-city residents and businesses are not allowed to use the bulk
pick-up service. The City's Bulk Pick-up Policy can be downloaded by
clicking here
using Adobe Reader.
Overview. Salisbury
Public Works provides a household bulk trash pick-up service to City
residents to remove large items and yard waste, which is:
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Weekly Bulk Pick-up for a minimum fee of $ 25 per
pick-up.
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Weekly Vegetative Materials Yard Waste Pick-up is
free
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Two free bulk pick-ups per year. One pick-up
will be scheduled in the Spring, the third weed of March, and the other in the Fall,
the third week of September.
Bulk
Item Fee Schedule. Salisbury
Public Works provides a household bulk trash pick-up service to City
residents to remove large items and yard waste, which is:
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- Refrigerator $ 26.00 |
- Oven
$ 4.00 |
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Freezer $ 26.00 |
- Washer $
6.00 |
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- Dryer $
4.00 |
- Air Conditioner $ 22.00 |
Semi Annual Free Bulk Pick-up
Procedures. One
pick-up in the Spring, the third week of March, and the other in the
Fall, the third week of September.
No
charge for a pick-up. No appliance items will be picked during these
two pick-ups.
Weekly Bulk Pick-up (non
Vegetative items) Procedures. To
initiate the process, the City resident can call the City Service Center
at
410-548-3177 and ask for a bulk pick-up, or
fills out the bulk pick-up application form. The following
information will be required at the time of the call:
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Name, address and telephone number
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Bill to address to if not the same as above, if
required.
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A detailed description of the items to be picked
up.
You will be informed of:
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How payment is to be collected, if required
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Cost of the pick-up, if required
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Date of pick-up.
The form can be obtained by:
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Picking one up at the Government Office Building,
Room 103, Salisbury Department of Finance; or
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Calling Salisbury Public Works at (410) 548-3177
or 3170 and it will be mailed to a City resident on request.
A City resident pays for bulk pick-up by one of the
following options:
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Pay in person at the City of Salisbury,
Department of Finance, Room 103 in the Government Office Building,
125 N. Division Street,
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Mail in the application and check to: The City of
Salisbury, Department of Finance,125 N. Division St, Salisbury, MD
21801.
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Upon payment, the bulk pick-up will be scheduled
for the following Monday that is not a holiday.
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Please do not place more than three large
items on the curb on Sunday night. Our crews start pick-up on
Monday morning at 6 AM. The Department can not pick-up more than
three bulk items due to equipment and resource constraints.
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Do not place any of the bulk items in the blue
recycling container or the large 95-gallon trashcan (usually black
or green) used for the Tuesday through Friday household trash
pickup.
Some examples the City can
not pick-up are:
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Motor oil and antifreeze. The County
Landfill and Transfer Stations will accept motor oil and
antifreeze. Contact the Landfill at (410) 548-4935.
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Batteries. Some garages or battery
dealers may accept old batteries when new a one is purchased.
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Tires or automobile parts. The County
Landfill accepts tires for a small fee and the Landfill has a scrap
pile in the Landfill’s Recycling Area.
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Paint cans. If the paint is solid or the
can is empty, place in a plastic bag and deposit in the normal
household trashcan. If the paint is liquid, leave the can open
until the paint dries hard and then place in a plastic bag and place
in the normal trash.
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Propane tanks. The County Landfill will
accept the tanks in the scrap metal pile if the propane tank is
empty, the valves are removed, and not larger than the 20-pound
size.
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Construction, demolition, or renovation
materials or debris.
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Riding lawn mowers, pianos, shingles, siding,
furnaces, or piping.
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Pallets, lumber, fencing, or landscaping
timbers.
Weekly Vegetative Yard Waste and Cardboard Pick-up Procedures.
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Please call the City Service
Center at (410) 548-3177, Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to
4:30 PM to be added to the list for yard waste and/or cardboard
pick-up.
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Also, you can call in a
vegetative bulk pick-up request to an answering machine from Friday
at 4:30 PM through to Monday at 6:00 AM. Since the Department’s
pick-up teams depart shortly after 6:00 AM and routes must be
assigned to our workforce for the day’s pick-ups, we cannot add
pickup requests after 6 AM.
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In addition to providing
contact information with your name, street address, and telephone
number, you need to provide a detailed description of the
yard waste you want picked up. Providing detailed information helps
the Department to schedule and assign the people, appropriate
equipment, and pickup routes.
Preparing Cardboard and Vegetative Yard Waste. How the
cardboard and yard waste needs to be
prepared:
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Cardboard.
Break boxes down flat, it is not necessary to bind them.
Cardboard pickup is done ONLY on Monday, do not put out any other
days.
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Branches. Each bundle must be tied
together, less than 4-feet long, branches or limbs less than
4-inches in diameter, and weighing less than 40 pounds. No more
than three bundles per week. Bundles that do not meet this
standard can not be picked up.
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Leaves and Vegetative Materials. Please
place in plastic bags not weighing more than 40 pounds. Do not
place more than 25 bags out per week, the Department will not
pick-up more than 25 bags.
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You do not need to fill out the bulk pick-up form to get a
Cardboard and/or Vegetative Item Pick-up
General Policies:
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We cannot pick-up landlord evictions.
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Non-city residents and businesses are not allowed
to use the bulk pick-up service.
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The fee schedule for appliances will be adjusted
when there are fee schedule changes by the Wicomico County Landfill.
This policy became effective
November 1, 2004.
Do not place any of the
bulk items in the blue recycling container nor your large trash
can used for the Tuesday through Friday household trash pickup.
Do Not blow or rake your
leaves out into the street and then call the Service Center for a leaf
pick-up by the leaf machine. The leaf machine has an assigned
route and is for use on leaves in the City streets and parks, not for
leaves from residential yards. These leaves will not be
picked up.
For any additional questions you
may have, contact a Public Works Department Customer Service
Representative at (410) 548-3177.
Summary.
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Our policy and procedures were developed to provide a very important
service to our City’s residents efficiently and effectively.
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Unfortunately, a few abuses of the City policy have caused major workload
and service problems in the City’s household bulk pick-up program.
This has had a negative impact on other critical Public Works tasks
such as our street cleaning and maintenance programs and keeping our
City’s parks, Riverwalk, and playgrounds clean and safe.
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Working together we can provide the household bulk-pickup service and
still accomplish our other critical tasks to ensure a high quality of life
in the City of Salisbury.
Point
of Contact. For any additional questions you may have, contact a Public Works
Department Customer Service Representative at (410) 548-3177.
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