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Accepted / Not Accepted Items

Acceptable Items

  • Appliances (remove doors on refrigerators and freezers).
  • Asphalt sealer (dry up, remove lid).
  • Basketball pole (cut in 4’ lengths, NO concrete please).
  • Bathroom fixtures (toilet, sink, tub).
  • Bed frame (take apart, no need to bundle).
  • Countertops (4’ or shorter).
  • Doors.
  • Doors, garage (single is OK, double must be cut in half).
  • Fences, cyclone (4’ or less, rolled and tied, posts bundled).
  • Fences, metal (bundled, length doesn't matter; posts must be 4’ or less and bundled with NO CEMENT).
  • Fences, wood (4’ x 4’s, don't bundle, just stack--post must be bundled).
  • Furniture.
  • Gutters (bent in 4’ lengths and bundled).
  • Landscape Timbers (4’, bundled).
  • Laundry tubs.
  • Lawn mowers (gasoline tank empty).
  • Metal sheds (break down, 4’ x 4’).
  • Pallets (cut down and bundle).
  • Paneling (4’ x 4’ or smaller, no nails, stack neatly, no need to bundle).
  • Propane tanks (empty—to empty, turn upside down and open valve).
  • Railroad ties (no longer than 4’, no need to bundle).
  • Snowblowers.
  • Swing sets (broken down, NO CEMENT).
  • Vinyl flooring (rolled up, any length).
  • Wood flooring (must be in 4’ x 4’ sections).

Not Acceptable

  • Bricks.
  • Car parts.
  • Ceiling tiles.
  • Cement.
  • Ceramic tile.
  • Dirt.
  • Drywall.
  • Hazardous materials.
  • Hot ashes.
  • Logs over 6” in diameter.
  • Masonite.
  • Rocks/Stones.
  • Sheet metal.
  • Shingles.
  • Snowmobiles.
  • Sod.
  • Stumps.
  • Tires.

 

 

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