Daily Mail staff
\n Someone’s trash might be another’s treasure, but if it’s in front of your house, it’s going to the city’s landfill.
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\n The city’s refuse department picks up appliances, furniture and small tree limbs (smaller than 4 feet). This time of year workers also are vacuuming leaves.<\/p>\n
Most materials end up in the city’s landfill off South Park Road. Newspapers, aluminum and bi-metal tin cans and plastic bottles placed in the proper containers are recycled.<\/p>\n
The city provides homeowners with recycling bins for newspapers and clear bags for plastics and cans – at no charge.<\/p>\n
Barbara Goff, administrative assistant with the city’s refuse department, said requests for pickup are handled as they are called into the office.<\/p>\n
Unusual items to be picked up — not just regular trash — should be called into the refuse department before the trucks come to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“If the garbage truck comes to your house on Friday and you didn’t call to tell us you had a piece of furniture or an old stove out front,” she said, “it won’t be picked up until we make a run again next week. So the sooner you call, the quicker it will be picked up.”<\/p>\n
With leaves piling up in the neighborhoods, the city’s street department has a separate pickup schedule for that purpose. A vacuum truck is in Kanawha City Monday and Tuesday; South Hills Wednesday and Thursday; and the West Side and East End Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Because of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, pickup schedules have been altered. Residents whose trash normally is picked up on Thursday will be served on Friday. The normal Friday rounds will be made on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The leaf collection schedule has been condensed into the first three days of this week. Leaves were removed in Kanawha City on Monday and were to be gathered in South Hills today and on the East End and West Side on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The city takes almost all appliances to the landfill. Appliances that contain Freon, such as air conditioners or refrigerators, are drained of the gas before being sent to Allen’s Auto Recycling on Sissonville Drive.<\/p>\n
Allen’s foreman, Jack Treola, said the city brings the old appliances in a one-ton truck that’s usually full. “We crush for them almost every day,” he said. “Our crusher can hold about half a truck load at a time. They usually back up and unload into the crusher and we put the machine to work.”<\/p>\n
From there, the crushed appliances are hauled to the city’s landfill.<\/p>\n
The landfill also accepts leaves, small tree limbs, furniture and so on.<\/p>\n
Large tree limbs, those bigger than 4 feet, are fed into a chipper run by the city street department.<\/p>\n
The city street department also picks up Christmas trees after the holidays if residents place them at the curb.<\/p>\n
The landfill is open to the public from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, but trucks filled with refuse should be on the landfill scales no later than 4 p.m. on those days.<\/p>\n
The trucks with trash are weighed, emptied of garbage and then run over the scales again. Landfill fees are 2 cents per pound or $40 a ton.<\/p>\n
The landfill has a free day on the second Wednesday of each month. On that day, it will accept a pickup truckload of household trash only. That’s garbage, furniture and some appliances, but no construction debris.<\/p>\n
To contact the city’s refuse department, call 348-6832, the city street department at 348-6850 or the city landfill at 925-1192.<\/p>\n
Contact writer Mary Childress at 348-4886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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