Free Bulky Item Collection Week Coming Soon

The City of Tyler Solid Waste Department and Keep Tyler Beautiful are sponsoring a FREE bulky item collection for City of Tyler residential customers.

Solid Waste will be picking up items for one week only from Monday, Oct. 3 through Friday, Oct. 7. Bulky items to be picked up at NO CHARGE include furniture, appliances, carpet, fence material, up to four non-commercial vehicle tires, old toys and other large items that would normally require a special fee.

Liquid waste, limbs or brush will not be picked up. Paint cans and containers must be dried out with oil dry or kitty litter. There is no need to call the Solid Waste Office to take advantage of this campaign. Those participating should place bulky items on the curb by Monday, Oct. 3. However, please note that items may be collected on a different day from regularly scheduled garbage collection.

Yard waste will not be picked up during Free Bulky Item Collection week. Brush, tree limbs or leaves should not be placed at the curb as Solid Waste staff will only collect household garbage. To control scattered trash, residents are also asked to place trash carts at the curb no earlier than 6 p.m. on the day before the scheduled collection day. Trash carts should also be removed from the curb no later than 7 a.m. the morning following the collection day per Sec. 16-4 of the Ordinance.

For those City of Tyler residential customers who cannot participate during this campaign, many bulky items will be accepted at no charge during regular business hours at the City of Tyler Recycling Center if the resident presents an original water bill not more than 45 days from the bill date along with a current ID.

Open Monday through Friday, 7:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Recycling Center is located at 418 N. Bois D’Arc Ave., Downtown Tyler.

The following items are accepted at the Recycling Center:
• Paper (newspapers, magazines, phonebooks, ads and office paper)
• Cardboard of any type (broken down)
• Plastic (rinsed and crushed #1 and #2 HDPE, lids removed; examples- water or soda bottles, milk jugs and detergent bottles)
• Glass (rinsed clear, green and brown glass bottles and jars with lids removed) NO BLUE GLASS OR MIRRORS
• Ink Cartridges
• Electronics (computers, TVs, monitors, cell phones, chargers and other portable devices)
• Metal (copper, aluminum, brass and steel)
• Aluminum cans (rinsed and crushed, no aluminum pie plates or tin)
• Household appliances including air conditioners and refrigerators DO NOT require a disposal fee this week as long as you provide a current water bill
• Motor oil/hydraulic fluid
• Automotive batteries/anti-freeze

For more information about the free bulky item collection week, visit www.TylerSolidWaste.com.