Norwalk: Bulky Garbage Pickup Starts Saturday

by turfgrrl

April 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here’s a reminder that this weekend is the time to put out your bulky items to be hauled away. First the schedule. If you know your regular day of garbage pickup you can figure out what your day is.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES ONLY
(who receive City garbage collection)
Collections schedules are as follows:
Garbage Route Bulky Waste P/U
Monday Saturday, April 26, 2008
Tuesday Saturday, May 31, 2008
Wednesday Saturday, July 26, 2008
Thursday Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday Saturday, September 27, 2008

Then you need to check to make out what is allowed. A handy guide:

ACCEPTABLE UNACCEPTABLE

Mattresses           Hazardous materials
Furniture              Liquids
Rugs & carpets   Propane tanks
(rolled & no more than 4 feet long)

Metal Items          Lumber (no more than 4 feet long)
Large Toys           Electronics
Stoves                   Construction or demolition debris (C&D)
Freezers               Recyclable items
Refrigerators      Yard waste
Other appliances

Doors must be removed from refrigerators and freezers. Hot water heaters less than 40 gallons capacities will also be collected. Metal items need to be separated from other items. Bulky Waste must be at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on your scheduled bulky waste collection day, and not more than 48 hours prior to the collection day.

QUESTIONS? Call Customer Service at 854-3200

Tags: Norwalk

5 Responses so far ↓ “Norwalk: Bulky Garbage Pickup Starts Saturday”

1 Anonymous // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:09 am

Speaking of waste, how about an update on the Historical Commission’s decision on the Rogers-Ritch-Merritt House fund reallocation, Turfie?
2 anonymous // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:29 am

What’s to report? It was a deal — signed, sealed and deliverd by the HC rubber-stamp commitee. Soo Gunn gets what she’s been wanting ever since her hissy-fights with Diane Rochelle: kill the RRM project.
3 Rowayton Resident // Apr 24, 2008 at 12:55 pm

While we are on the subject of garbage, Has anyone been following the “POOL” saga in Rowayton? This had a lot of things in common with what was being tried in one of our parks here in our part of Norwalk. A small group wanted to build a “Pay Pool” on public land at Bailey Beach. They used the same old worn out BS that was used here. It would not cost the taxpayer “A DIME.” The projected cost of this pool was to be $1,500,000 and guess what the group pushing for this had already had pledges of $19,000, and expected the balance to come from a fund raising efforts. Now lets look closely at this figure, we all know that if it was to cost a million five, that when it was ready to proceed it would come in at around 2.2 million in increased price costs. Then there is the economy which is going into the tank and most likely will be there for at least another 18 months. The biggest joke of all was the price to join this pool club on a public beach was estimated to be between $ 800-12, 00 per season. Now we all know that once a price was set, that there was only one way it could go, and that is up. In a year or two it would be $1200-1800 the $1500 to $2000 and soon it would be a Simi private country club amenity with only a few Rowayton residents willing to be extorted. Then when it was found that it could not be made profitable with only Rowayton residents, the next trick would be to open it to out of Towner etc. When that failed the cry from the gang who thought up this brain storm would start to cry “Help do you want the pool to close and become an eyesore?” “We need help from the taxpayer to keep it open. Well, I guess the residents of Rowayton must have seen through the smoke and mirrors, and figured that this was a plain and simple land grab. I hope that a few politicians in this city get the point, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, BUT YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME, and it is getting tougher every day. Congratulations Rowaytonites but keep your guard up, because you know what they say about “Bad Pennies.”
4 Maribeth Becker // Apr 24, 2008 at 4:20 pm

I learned a few interesting tidbits at yesterday’s recycling fest at City Hall:

1 - You can now recycle plastics labeled with numbers 3-7 (including many plastic flower pots and ‘to-go’ food containers). Currently they need to be brought to the recycling center at the transfer station, but in the near future they’ll be able to go in blue bins for curbside pick-up.

2 - Effective immediately, all papers can be mixed together for recycling. No need to separate newspapers from magazines, catalogues and other mixed paper (including cereal boxes and other ‘waxy’ cardboard).

Very cool.
5 Anonymous // Apr 24, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Thanks, Maribeth. Seems like the City would have figured out a way to inform the residents of Norwalk that they were having a “recycling fest.”

I recently went to New Canaan for the same reason, it was held at the Nature Center and was publicized in The Hour. I didn’t see anything about a similar event at City Hall in Norwalk.

Nice to know all those non #1 and #2 plastics can be recycled. I’ve been throwing them in with everything else and hoping that they somehow are being separated. Better than going into a landfill. Good news also about the paper.