Garbage & Recycling
Garbage pickup is every Tuesday.
Residents
may place 2 - 33 gallon containers at the curb for pick-up.
Each container must weigh less than 50 pounds. If you need
additional cans picked up a tag may be purchased at City Hall before garbage
collection. All cans should be at the curb by 7:00 am.
Recycling will be picked up on the 2nd
and 4th
Wednesdays of each month.
Items that may be recycled include:
Plastics: milk & antifreeze jugs, dishwashing liquid, laundry &
shampoo bottles, etc. (#1 & #2) Please clean container.
Place lids in the garbage.
Paper & Cardboard: newsprint, computer, brown paper
bags, corrugated cardboard, magazines. Please keep dry. Phone
books & catalogs need to be no thicker than 1/2 inch.
Tin Cans: please rinse, clean and remove labels as
much as possible.
Aluminum Foil: deposable foil containers, foil wrap, foil
pie plates, aluminum pans, foil TV dinner trays. Rinse, clean and
crumple it up.
The City Garbage hauler will accept the following large items anytime during
the year so long as a tag has been purchased from City Hall.
Stuffed
furniture/mattresses/televisions...............................................................................$10.00
White goods (washers, dryers, dishwashers, water
heaters)....................................$25.00
Freezers/
refrigerators.............................................................................................................................$30.00
Carpet (4 foot rolls &
dry).........................................................................................................................$0.00
Microwaves/humidifiers, dehumidifiers/air
conditioners........................................$20.00
Construction materials, demolition,
shingles.....................................................$35.00/per ton
The City of Everly sponsors city wide Clean Up Days in the spring of each
year. Look for special pricing on the items above on those days.
Do you have household hazardous materials that need to be
disposed of? HHM could include: degreasers, waxes & polishes,
pesticides, and stain removers. The City of Everly is a participating
member of the Northwest Iowa Area Solid Waste Agency so that residents may
benefit from their services. For more information on the NWISWA and
the HHM site please
click here.
City of Everly, Iowa 2009