Sanitation

The Sanitation Department is responsible for collecting refuse from residential areas in the city. It also runs a curbside-recycling program, picks up bag grass, and leaves every week on your trash pick up day. The Sanitation Department also picks up limbs every 5 months in your area.

In the last few years, the department has upgraded the fleet, added a city-wide recycling program, diversified the fleet to add services to customers. We also chip our limbs and make mulch out of them. It hopes to expand the recycling program in the near future.

The City of Jonesboro landfill facility closed in January 2005 and is under final closure procedures. The County’s landfill has opened its facility to City Residents for disposing of unwanted items. The Legacy Landfill hours of operation are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ( noon). Their phone number is 870-972-6353. The City no longer picks up any bulky waste or clean sweep items such as; but not limited to furniture, water heaters, mattresses, box springs, televisions, washers and dryers, wood, metal, fencing, refrigerators, doors and any other like items.

On a per week basis, 45 employees serve about 31,454 households. About 300 tons of residential
refuse are collected, and 8-10 tons of it is recycled.

These tasks are perform using the following equipment: Volvo, Condor, Heil automated refuse trucks, 2 pacmor commercial trucks, 2 sterling knuckle boom trucks Vermeer HG525 horizontal grinder.

City of Jonesboro residents will continue to be able to dispose of solid waste at no charge, with the exception of construction materials as per Jonesboro ordinance. Residents with construction material, all commercial accounts, and residents outside Jonesboro City limits must pay Legacy Landfill at the time of disposal by cash, check or debit card if a charge account has not been set up with Legacy Landfill prior to the day of disposal. City of Jonesboro Charge account customers do not automatically become charge account customers of Legacy Landfill.

Beginning August 1, 2011 all yard waste, brush, limbs, will be accepted at the City’s incinerator site located at 2650 Lacy Drive.  For current hours of operation please call the office at 870-932-7520.

All vehicles unloading yard waste, brush, limbs, vegetative materials, woody waste must be approved by the City employee before unloading in the designated area.  Non-approved waste will not be accepted or unloaded at this site. 

No Citizen will be allowed near incinerator or incinerator controls. 

Items will be unloaded by resident or driver of vehicle. City Employee will not unload your waste.   

Unacceptable items are but not limited to; trash including yard waste bags, plastic, tires, paint, fencing, stumps, tree trunks, and etc. these items must be taken to Legacy Landfill located off Hwy 1 South CR 476.  Legacy Landfill hours of operation; Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (noon)

Required forms to be able to unload at site:

• Drivers License Required
• Proof of residency (example:  Utility bill)

City is not responsible for any accidents and we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.  Failure to comply with rules and regulations will result in fines and/or fines and court costs and will not be able to dispose of yard waste items at this site again.

Lawn Care providers, County Residents, Tree Service providers, Commercial Businesses and etc. will be assessed the current tipping fee approved and established by the City Council and fees are subject to change at any time. 

The current fees until December 31, 2011 will be set at $13.50 per ton including sales tax, with a minimum charge of $7.00 plus current sales tax.

On January 2, 2012 fees will be increased to $27.00 per ton including current sales tax and a minimum fee of $7.00 plus current sales tax.

For billing questions please contact the City Collector’s office at 870-932-3042.

For incinerator questions, unloading rules, guidelines or etc contact the office at 870-932-7520.

Pickup Schedule

The city of Jonesboro is currently picking up limbs in a continuous 5-month rotation. Limbs need to be place curbside by the 1 st day of the appropriate month and can be no larger than 6 feet long and 4 inches in diameter. The limbs will be picked up sometime during the appropriate month. The chipping schedule is listed below..

2012

Monday's Route:
May and October

Tuesday's Route:
January, June and November

Wednesday's Route:
February, July and December

Thursday's Route:
March and August

Friday's Route:
April and September

We also offer a schedule of the holiday trash pickup. To view this schedule please Click Here.

Effective August 22, 2011:  ROUTES WILL ONLY BE PICKED UP ONE TIME DURING YOUR SCHEDULED MONTH.  ALL LIMBS MUST BE PLACED AND REMAIN CURBSIDE BY THE 1ST DAY OF YOUR SCHEDULED MONTH. IF YOU MISS YOUR PICKUP PLEASE REFRAIN FROM PLACING YOUR WASTE CURBSIDE UNTIL THE NEXT SCHEDULED MONTH.

Recycling

Recycling Program

The Sanitation Department delivers Blue Recycling Bags to residents interested in Recycling. Recycling bags are for #1& #2 Plastics, Clear Glass Containers, and aluminum cans metal only. Newspapers can be recycled, they will need to be placed in a different bag such as Wal-Mart plastic bag or another department store bag or bundled with rope. Please place-recycling bags full, curbside by 6:00 a.m. on your trash pick up day. The Sanitation Department does not pick up the following items for recycling however; Hummelstein located at 105 Flint Street will accept them (870)932-8361).

Items not picked up by the City for recycling

1. Plastic bags (Grocery, Wal-Mart, and other department stores)
2. 5 gallon plastic buckets, rinsed and handles removed
3. 5 gallon chemical drums, tripled rinsed
4. Magazines, phone books, hardback books, must be separated.

All trash must be bag, tied and placed inside the City’s container. If you have too much trash for the container the city provides, you can purchase a second container or start recycling. Sometimes recycling will cut down room in your container. Recycling cuts down on waste going into our landfills. For more information on recycling or purchasing a second container, please call the sanitation department.

If you are a commercial business and need trash services, please contact the sanitation department for dumpster prices. Contractors and residents doing clean up or remodeling may contact us for prices on roll-offs to help with large jobs.

For more rules and regulations, please go to the city clerk’s web page and under city records look for ordinances on trash service rules.

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