The city of Jefferson is starting up its once per month service at curbside.

Public Works Director Dave Morlan says starting this week and for every last full week of the month will be curbside yard waste pickup. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio this is for yard waste that is not sticks or tree limbs, but grass clippings, dead flowers, weeds, and other similar items in biodegradable bags.

“If they have paper bags of yard waste, they need to go to City Hall and get a sticker, put a sticker on it (the bag). We’ll pick them up then and take them down to the yard waste site. Our first brush pickup will not be until the last full week of May.”    

Morlan points out that any resident can also take their yard waste, as well as sticks, tree limbs and even whole trees that have been cut down to the yard waste dump site at Daubendiek Park. However, he advises one area of concern if people haul yard waste to the dump site in garbage bags.

“We don’t have any trash receptacles down there, they’re going to have to take the bags back with them. Plastic bags, and cat trees, and pallets, and landscaping timbers, those are not allowed, it’s just yard waste, and just tree limbs that belong down there.” 

Yard waste collection happens on normal garbage pickup days.