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Curbside Trash

Collection day is Thursday. Please place your carts at the curb the night before your scheduled collection to ensure service. Face the cart opening toward the street, three feet from the road and three feet from other objects. This request comes from Rumpke and our Road Department.

Rumpke will collect bulky items on your regular service day. You may place bulky items out for collection on one day during each calendar month at no charge. There will be a charge for collection of bulky items on additional days in the same month. Any item placed outside the trash cart will be considered a bulky item. As a courtesy, please contact Rumpke in advance when you have bulky items for pickup. Examples: appliances, carpet and furniture. Their number is 800.828.8171.

Fabric and upholstered items must be wrapped in plastic. Examples: furniture, mattresses and box springs. 

Appliances with Freon must have the Freon removed by a licensed technician, and the removal certificate must be attached to the appliances. Examples: refrigerators, freezers and air conditioning units.

Prohibited items are tires, batteries, hazardous waste, liquids, flammable materials, household chemicals. DO NOT place the items inside the Rumpke trash or recycling carts. For safe disposal options, please contact Lorain County Solid Waste at 440.329.5440.

Place needles and other sharp objects in a hard plastic laundry detergent bottle, reattach the lid and secure it with duct tape. Use a thick permanent marker to write “SHARPS” on the bottle. Please it inside your trash cart sealed.

Wood chips are free to township residents and they can be dropped off in your driveway when the Road Department is out chipping. Request wood chips by leaving a message at 324-3517.

Damage to your Mailbox by a Township Snowplow

If a township’s snowplow damages your mailbox:

Your mailbox will be repaired or replaced by the township with a standard rural type mailbox on a 4×4 wood post provided that:

  • Your damaged mailbox had been installed the proper distance from the road berm.  (See link below.)

Please mark both sides of your mailbox with your address so the emergency services can find you if needed, remember in an emergency, every minute counts. Address signs can be purchased at the fire station.

Waste & Recycling Contractor

Rumpke
800.828.8171
Rumpke.com 

Brush Collection

Brush collection starts the last Monday of each month, except for October, November, and December due to leaf collection, but will resume in January. Please call (440) 324-3517 before 8:00 AM prior to the last Monday, if you don’t call we may not pick it up. Leave your name, address and phone number and please talk slowly so we can schedule our route for that day. Calls received after 8:00 AM on the Monday of the collection will be added to the list for the following month.

Do not bag your brush. Place the cut ends of your branches toward the road. (See image.) If you have a large quantity help us out and spread it out across your yard. When the piles get high it is hard to pull the branches out. Our chipper does not like prickers, flowers, weeds, corn stocks, any type of grapevine material, or firewood size logs. They plug up our filters and intake screens and get caught up in the feed reels. If you pay a contractor to trim or cut down your tree they are responsible for what they do; the Road Department will not pick it up. This was a motion passed by the Board of Trustees.

Leaf Collection Guidelines

Leaf pickup begins when brush collection concludes. Residents should put leaves in a row along the edge of the road, but not in the road.

 

Leaf collection will begin when brush pickup ends. Leaves that are put out after the deadline (to be announced) will not be collected. A route that covers the whole township is followed and repeated. Residents should put leaves along the edge of the road, but not in the road. The back edge of the row must be no farther than six feet from the edge of the road, and the pile should be no closer than three feet to mailboxes, signposts, and other objects. Do not bag leaves. Do not put sticks, straw, cornstalks, weeds, fruit, animal feces, and other items in leaf rows. These things damage and plug up the leaf machine and cause delays in the leaf pickup process. Do not pile leaves in ditches or over catch basins or risers. Doing this may cause flooding. Uncontrollable conditions, such as equipment breakdown, bad weather, and emergency work, sometimes make it difficult to know what day we will be there to collect your leaves, but we will be there. Please be patient.