Typically held in mid to late April, this year’s West Plains Spring Citywide Cleanup has been scheduled for the week of March 25, city officials announce.
Prior to the cleanup week, the Citywide Yard Sale will be held March 21 through 23. During this time the $1 yard sale permit fee will be waived.
The annual spring cleanup gives residents an opportunity to tidy up around their properties and have most items hauled away free of charge. The Sanitation Department asks that waste be separated into five categories.
Those categories include regular refuse, including extra bagged or boxed trash; larger items like furniture and mattresses, which must be wrapped, such as with plastic and duct tape; and metals and white goods such as washers, dryers and stoves. Refrigerators and freezers with compressors must have a certification provided by a licensed technician the Freon has been removed before it will be collected.
In addition, residents may set out yard waste such as bagged leaves and grass clippings. Brush will not be collected curbside but may be dropped between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays off at the Transfer Station, 1851 Old Airport Road, Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. free of charge during the clean-up week only.
The final category is recyclable items, which should be placed in or near the city-furnished red bins.
To have tires picked up, call the Sanitation Department, 417-255-2330 and leave a name and address. Tire collection fees have increased this year to $6.43 per passenger tire and $10.71 per passenger tire on a rim. Those fees were previously $2 and $3, respectively.
To prevent injuries to city employees, label and box all broken glass and have any small clean-up items bagged or boxed. Items considered hazardous including asbestos, waste from major demolition or renovation jobs, and items piled onto trailers or trucks will not be collected.
For more information or to request the delivery of a recycle bin, call the Sanitation Department.
