Expanded Weekly Yard, Bulky Waste Program Begins For ECUA Customers

August 6, 2012

Tuesday will mark the first day of enhanced and bulky yard waste pickups for North Escambia area ECUA customers.

The weekly bulky waste collection service includes pick-up of furniture and other household items that are too large to fit in the automated can for disposal.

“The unique feature of these improvements is customers will no longer have to call to schedule the pick up. They will simply place their items(s) at the curb, before 5:30 a.m., on their regular collection day. It’s just that simple,” said Gary Dean, ECUA sanitation collection manager.

According to ECUA, any materials remaining in the right-of-way on the regular collection day may be mistaken for a bulk waste item — so customers should be careful not to place items that are not intended for disposal in the collection area to avoid inadvertent pick ups.

Bulky Waste Program Guidelines

  • Items accepted are: furniture, such as: couch, mattress, desk, chairs, dresser; rugs and  carpets; vacuum cleaners; bicycles; bags of clothes; grills; and toilets.
  • Customers are not required to call-in to schedule or receive a pick-up. Items should be placed at the curb by 5:30 a.m. on the regular collection day, but no sooner than 48 hours before the collection day.
  • Pile the bulky waste items(s) at curbside, in an area that is free of over hanging tree limbs and/or wires, being careful not to block traffic.
  • ECUA will collect two 6’ W x 6’ D x 6’ H piles of bulk items weekly.

The once-weekly yard waste collection service is also provided to all residential sanitation customers. Customers are encouraged to place all yard waste at the curb prior to 5:30 a.m. on the regular yard trash collection day.

Yard Waste Program Guidelines

  • Do not use your garbage or recycling can for yard waste. Yard waste is collected separately from household garbage.
  • Place bagged, bundled, or canned yard waste within two feet of the curb and away from the street/road.
  • Small yard waste, leaves, pine straw and grass clippings must be contained in standard garbage containers or plastic bags that do not exceed 32 gallons in size or weigh more than 40 pounds when full. The ECUA will collect up to 20 plastic yard trash bags or cans each week.
  • Cut limbs should not exceed six feet in length or 40 pounds in weight, and must be bundled in two piles of no more that two 6’ W x 6’ D x 6’ H piles.

Yard waste, as defined by the ECUA Sanitation Program, includes: leaves, pine straw, grass clippings and small prunings.

Comments

5 Responses to “Expanded Weekly Yard, Bulky Waste Program Begins For ECUA Customers”

  1. Michael on January 11th, 2023 6:55 pm

    I lived all over the USA and ECUA offers the best garbage/trash service I’ve ever experienced, hands down.

  2. Oza goodwin on February 20th, 2018 11:30 am

    I left bagged leaves by my trash this morning as I read that I was supposed to do and they dumped my trash but they didn’t pick up the leaves please tell me what I did wrong

  3. 429SCJ on August 8th, 2012 7:09 am

    I wish I were a rich person. If I were I would have no garbage service, I would just burn it in a drum, when the wind is blowing toward my poor neighbor who pays monthly for p/u service.

    Solomon surely has a proverb for those cheap jokers.

  4. Tuf on August 6th, 2012 7:04 am

    Jane… yardwaste is definitely recycled. With the furniture… that is probably a decision made by the Perdido Landfill personnel. If you have never taken a tour there, contact them. It is a remarkable system. And, they have free wood chip mulch.

  5. Jane on August 6th, 2012 5:10 am

    Does the yard waste get recycled? And what about the couches, etc., do they get recycled?

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