Dauphin’s Fall Yard Clean-up starts tomorrow.
Crews are starting in the day 4 area and going in reverse order through the four-day cycle.
Sharla Griffiths, Dauphin’s City Manager, shares what you are encouraged to put out when crews get to your area.
“These things would be leaves, branches, grass clippings, and tops removed from garden produce.”
She talks about where to put your yard waste.
“Leave things out at the back lane or at the front curb if you do not have a back lane. City crews will be going around and picking those things up.”
Griffiths explains why the city does the clean up every year.
“One of the things that we’re trying to do is divert organic material from our landfill. So by having the city take away organic material, like leaves or grass clippings. We can put them in a special spot at our waste disposal site and it keeps the organic matter our of the landfill cells. Organic matter decomposing in a landfill cell creates methane gas and that’s something that we’re trying to keep to a minimum.”
Crews won’t pick up piles with plastic bags, scrap, house or commercial garbage.
