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Old 10-02-2020, 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by carenrn1 View Post
The new trash/recycling program begins tomorrow October 1st. The recycling program was not profitable and caused many headaches for the workers/companies involved. Now everything will go to a burning facility called Corvana. Our burned trash/recycling will go to Duke Energy to be used as electricity. All your trash/recycling will go into one bag, any color but red can be used. Red is a biohazard bag. I use the black lawn/leaf bags. I called this week and you can use up your clear recycling bags also. There are 2 days the trash will be picked up e.g. Monday and Thursday which are my days. If your 2 days of pickup are changing a notice on your front door will be attached. If you don't get this notice your 2days of pickup remain the same. Your yard waste goes into the same large paper bags and will also be picked up on the same 2 days your trash bags are picked up. You can go to districtgov.org to find out more information. Sumter Sanitation is 352-748-0109.
We still have to use the paper bags for yard waste? I was planning to use the plastic bags for yard waste. It is so much easier when the yard waste is wet (such as weeds that are pulled after a heavy rain. The wet ground makes it so much easier to remove the weeds). The paper bags would break at the bottom. I have never had to use paper bags for yard waste before moving to The Villages. All yard waste was always put in large black yard waste bags.
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