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Discounted Trash Collection Rates ® Reuse or Recycle
<br /> for Senior Citizens! Old Trash Containers
<br /> As part of South Bend's new Automated
<br /> The South Bend Bureau of Solid Waste is committed to providing all Trash Container Program, the Bureau of
<br /> residents with safe,reliable, and efficient trash collection services at Solid Waste has picked up residents' old
<br /> economical prices. Solid Waste offers senior citizens a reduced rate of$5.50 per trash containers for recycling or reuse.
<br /> month, which includes weekly trash pickup and yard waste collection for indi-
<br /> vidual households. The normal rate for individual households in South Bend is RECYCLE:
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<br /> $8.00 a month, which is among the lowest rate for trash collection in the state, for • Metal containers are being recycled
<br /> cities of our size. for scrap.
<br /> If you have any questions regarding your trash and yard waste collection, or • All clean plastic containers Grade#1
<br /> your bill,please call the Bureau of Solid Waste at 277-8823. or#2 composite are being recycled.
<br /> • Please note that in order to be recycled
<br /> or reused,plastic containers must
<br /> City Leaf Pickup Less Than $1/Month! cleaned of any trash or debris.
<br /> The City is pleased to announce that it will again offer its loose leaf REUSE
<br /> pickup program, Operation ReLeaf,beginning on Monday, October The City of South Bend, in partnership
<br /> 24, 2005 and continuing until Thanksgiving. This is the seventeenth with Solid Waste Management District
<br /> year the City is offering this service to its residents, at a rate of 33 of St. Joseph County, will make
<br /> a cents per month! Mayor Steve encourages everyone to help build a available to local residents all clean
<br /> Clean City by bagging or raking your leaves to the curb this fall. non-recyclable plastic containers, for:
<br /> In order to continue providing this service, the rate is proposed _ Household recycling - If your
<br /> to increase to 99 cents per month,beginning in 2006. This is one of the lowest recycling bin is overflowing, or you
<br /> rates in the region, among communities who still offer this servicel have not yet taken advantage of
<br /> The City provides curbside loose-leaf pickup every year,both in the fall and recycling services, use your old
<br /> spring,to help keep South Bend clean and beautiful. Last year,the City collected a trash containers to help protect our
<br /> total of 82,000 cubic yards of leaves. After the loose leaves are collected, they are environment. For more information
<br /> taken to Organic Resources and recycled into high quality mulch and compost, on SWMD's recycling program,
<br /> and more importantly, diverting them from our landfill! Free mulch and compost please call them at 235-9971, or visit
<br /> are available by calling Organic Resources at 287-6841. www.swmd.ore.
<br /> Curbside Loose Leaf Pickup -For best results,please: - Bagged&bundled yard waste -
<br /> • Keep leaves on the curb line and do not rake leaves into the street where they Old containers may be used to hold
<br /> may interfere with traffic or clog stormwater drains. bagged leaves and yard waste for
<br /> • Do not contaminate leaf piles with sticks,trash, and other debris that will collection at curbside on your
<br /> damage the Leaf Vacs. Leaf crews will not pick up these piles regular trash collection day.
<br /> • Vehicles should never park on top of leaves raked onto the street. A vehicle left
<br /> running while parked over leaves could create enough heat to ignite a fire. If your old containers have not yet
<br /> • Burning of leaves is totally prohibited in the City of South Bend and is in viola- been picked up, call the Bureau of Solid
<br /> tion of City ordinance. Waste to arrange for pickup and proper
<br /> • Help make South Bend a Safe City by not allowing children to play in leaf piles disposal. Place old containers at
<br /> at the curb. curbside, with a"Please Take"note
<br /> To learn when leaf collection crews will be in your area,beginning October attached. All containers that are full of
<br /> 24, please watch for the Operation ReLeaf schedule in the South Bend Tribune and trash or have not been cleaned will be
<br /> on local TV and radio broadcasts, or visit the City Website at www.ci.south- taken to the landfill.
<br /> bend.in.us/PublicWorks/Wastewater/sw/index.html. If you have any questions, or
<br /> for more information, please call the Bureau of Streets at 235-9244. Residents wishing to keep their old
<br /> Bagged leaves and bundled yard waste may be placed at the curb by 6:00 containers must store them inside their
<br /> a.m. on your normal trash collection day and the Bureau of Solid Waste will take yard, and not leave them at the alley line
<br /> them to Organic resources to be recycled. Bagged leaves should not be placed in or curbside,unless filled with recycling
<br /> the alley. As you do yard work this fall,please remember guidelines require on their recycling pickup day.
<br /> that tree limbs and brush be bundled together no wider than 6 If you have not yet received your new
<br /> inches and less than 4 feet long. Limbs or bundles larger than 6 automated trash container, or have
<br /> inches in diameter will not fit through the City's chipping any questions regarding disposal of your
<br /> machines and will not be picked up. For more information on old trash containers,please call the
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<br /> bagged and bundled yard waste pickup, please call 277-8823. Bureau of Solid Waste at 277-8823.
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<br /> Visit the City of South Bend online at www.ci.south-bend.in.us
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