SWACO Offers 6 Yard Waste Drop Sites

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus residents who don't pay for Rumpke yard waste service can get their leaves disposed of beginning this weekend.

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio is offering six additional locations to have homeowners drop off their yard waste.

Columbus residents can drop off their yard waste free of charge at six new locations every Saturday between October 31 through December 5, 9 a.m. through 3 p.m.
· Residents of other communities in Franklin County are urged to make use of the yard waste programs provided by their respective communities

These free yard waste drop off sites are a collaborative effort between the City of Columbus and SWACO

Leaves and grass clippings must be delivered to the collections in biodegradable bags. Twigs and branches should be cut to no longer than 4 feet in length and bundled together with string or twine
· Larger loads and unbundled/non-bagged loads should be taken to one of the Ohio Mulch or Kurtz Brothers facilities

The collections are for designed for residential yard waste only.
· No trash or other materials will be accepted at the collection sites

· SWACO’s Nail-a-Dumper team will keep a close watch on the collection sites to make sure there is no illegal dumping

The new locations bring to 15 the total of free drop off yard waste sites offered to Columbus residents.

The six new free drop-off sites are:
· Department of Public Service 25TH Avenue Material Yard; 1881 East 25TH Avenue

· Department of Public Service Transportation North Outpost; 500 Scherer’s Court

· City Of Columbus Westgate Park; 455 South Westgate Avenue

· Department of Public Utilities Electricity Offices; 3568 Indianola Avenue

· Department of Public Utilities Fairwood Avenue Facility; 1250 Fairwood Avenue

· City Of Columbus Fleet Management Division Facility; 4211 Groves Road

Columbus residents also have access to nine additional previously announced locations for free drop off of yard waste:
· COM-TIL, the City’s Compost Facility (no grass clippings): 7000 Jackson Pike, Columbus

· Kurtz Bros. and Mulch Manufacturing Inc. (leaves, small branches, grass clippings and holiday trees

· 2850 Rohr Road, Groveport (Kurtz Bros.)

· 6055-C Westerville Road, Westerville (Kurtz Bros.)

· 6279 Houchard Road, Dublin (Kurtz Bros.)

· 6747 Taylor Road S.W. (Mulch Manufacturing, Inc.)

· Ohio Mulch:

· 4120 Roberts Road, Columbus (Ohio Mulch)

· 4665 Westerville Rd. (Ohio Mulch)

· 1600 Universal Rd. (Ohio Mulch)

· 537 Reynoldsburg-New Albany Rd. (Ohio Mulch)

Columbus residents who wish to have curbside pickup of their yard waste may also subscribe through Rumpke for service running from October through mid-April 2010

· Subscription cost is $49.50

Residents can lessen their environmental footprint by home composting or mulching their yard waste. More information on yard waste collections and composting is available by clicking on the “yard waste” button at www.swaco.org

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