{"id":5484,"date":"2018-02-14T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:12:58","slug":"yakima-yard-waste-collection-begins-march-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-yard-waste-collection-begins-march-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Yard Waste Collection Begins March 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Yard waste collection in the City of Yakima will begin Thursday, March 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The City&#8217;s Refuse Division will provide weekly yard waste pick-up from March 1<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">st<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\"> through November 30<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Please have the green yard waste cart available by 6:00 a.m. on the curb or alley on the day of scheduled pick-up,&#8221; said Refuse and Recycling Manager Loretta Zammarchi. &#8220;Place the container 4 feet from any obstacles.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">There is a charge for the service, which is limited to collecting grass clippings, leaves, and small branches. Branches should be cut into lengths of 3 feet or less and not exceed 3 inches in diameter. All yard waste must fit inside the cart with the lid closed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Our trucks can pick up yard waste carts weighing up to 150 pounds,&#8221; Zammarchi said. &#8220;Carts exceeding the weight limit will not be collected.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Items that are unacceptable for yard waste pick-up include garbage, plastic bags, food scraps, animal waste, ashes and sod, building materials, and tree trunks or large branches<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: windowtext;font-weight: normal\">. The items are not acceptable by the Yakima County landfill as yard waste. They are considered contaminants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: windowtext;font-weight: normal\">&#8220;Once mixed into yard waste the load becomes unacceptable for processing,&#8221; Zammarchi said. &#8220;Just a little bit of contamination can turn a truck load of yard waste into a garbage load.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Visit the Division&#8217;s yard waste collection website at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ESZBcA\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ESZBcA<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> or call 575-6005 for more information.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Yard-Waste-Collection-News-Release.pdf\">Yard Waste Collection &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yard waste collection in the City of Yakima will begin Thursday, March 1st. The City&#8217;s Refuse Division will provide weekly yard waste pick-up from March 1st through November 30th. &#8220;Please have the green yard waste cart available by 6:00 a.m. on the curb or alley on the day of scheduled pick-up,&#8221; said Refuse and Recycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,274,121,273],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-city-of-yakima","tag-landfill","tag-yakima-county","tag-yard-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}