{"id":4267,"date":"2017-03-28T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:55:38","slug":"yakima-refuse-yard-waste-collection-start-date-april-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-refuse-yard-waste-collection-start-date-april-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Refuse Yard Waste Collection Start Date April 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the effects of a long winter season that featured more snow, ice, and cold temperatures than normal, City of Yakima Refuse Division crews will begin picking up yard waste a little later than normal this year.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, yard waste collection starts on March 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 This year, however, yard waste pickup begins on Monday, April 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winter weather delayed maintenance work that we needed to complete on our trucks in order to prepare for yard waste collection,&#8221; said Solid Waste and Recycling Manager Loretta Zammarchi.\u00a0 &#8220;A longer-than-normal winter also delayed the need for yard waste collection.\u00a0 Hopefully customers will experience little if any inconvenience as a result of the April 3<sup>rd<\/sup> start date,&#8221; said Zammarchi.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the April 3<sup>rd<\/sup> start day, customers who subscribe to the City&#8217;s yard waste service were not charged a fee for March.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the start of yard waste collection this year, contact the City of Yakima Refuse Division at 575-6005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Yakima-Refuse-Yard-Waste-Collection-Start-Date-News-Release.pdf\">Yakima Refuse Yard Waste Collection Start Date &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the effects of a long winter season that featured more snow, ice, and cold temperatures than normal, City of Yakima Refuse Division crews will begin picking up yard waste a little later than normal this year. Typically, yard waste collection starts on March 1st.\u00a0 This year, however, yard waste pickup begins on Monday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}