AMWASTE INFORMATION

Amwaste has provided guidelines for the following: can placement, curb and backdoor pickup, acceptable and not acceptable items for pickup

Click HERE to watch the guidelines video. 

Acceptable items for weekly scheduled household collection:

• Customary household food, drink, and waste remnants, containers, and packing
• Customary bathroom remnants and packaging
• Containerized broken glass
• Broken down moving boxes
• Bagged packing materials
• Alkaline, manganese, and carbon zinc batteries
• Household volume of fluorescent light bulbs
• Household volume of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers
• Small furniture items
• Less than two cubic yards of limbs, bagged leaves and/or grass. 

Acceptable items for weekly boom collection service:

• Limbs no longer than 6’ in length and no greater than 6” in diameter.
• Greater than 10 bags of leaves, grass, or other vegetative debris.
• Large furniture items
• Mattresses and box springs
• Appliances (Any appliances containing freon requires a freon removal tag by a certified technician)

Not acceptable items for collection:

• Construction debris
• Contractor generated debris piles
• Cynder blocks, tile, bricks, or concrete
• Piles of dirt
• Tires
• Car batteries
• Lithium ion batteries
• Large vehicle parts such as engines, rotors, bumpers, side panels, ets.
• Landscape or railroad cross-ties
• More than household amounts of hazardous waste
• Non-solidified paint containers (lids are to be left off for review)
• Pool chemicals
• Medical waste to include sharps and needles
• Animal carcasses