Due to the Christmas and New Year's Holidays our schedule will be:

Christmas Day, December 25, 2019 & New Year's Day, January 1, 2020

• Administrative Office – Closed
• Landfill - Closed
• Convenience Centers – Closed
• No residential collection
• Monday and Tuesday collections are on regularly scheduled day.
• Wednesday's collection will take place Thursday
• Thursday's collection will take place Friday
• Friday's collection will take place Saturday

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Excess garbage and recycling will be collected Thursday, December 26, 2019 through Tuesday, January 7, 2020.

Due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday our schedule will be:

January 20, 2020

• Administrative Office – Closed
• Landfill - Open normal hours
• Convenience Centers – Closed

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Residential Collection – Normal collection service days

There will be NO CHANGE IN COLLECTION DAYS. excess garbage will be collected the following week (July 6^th through 10^th) on your collection day.

All Convenience Centers and the Tavares Central Facility will be OPEN on Friday, July 3^rd.

All Convenience Centers and the Tavares Central Facility will be CLOSED on Saturday, July 4^th.

BULK SERVICE

Bulk items (appliances, furniture, electronics, etc.) will now be collected on yard waste collection days. Residents must call at least 24 hours in advance to set up the collection. Residents may call the County staff at 352-343-3776 or their garbage hauler to schedule the bulk collection.

Bulk items are still limited to 3 cubic yards once per week. Construction and demolition materials are limited to 2 cubic yards once per month.

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YARD WASTE

Yard Waste will now have a 4 cubic yard limit. 4 cubic yards is equivalent to:

1. 20 lawn and leaf bags (39 gallon), or
2. 8 large (96 gallon) trash carts, or
3. a pile 4.75 ft. X 4.75 ft. X 4.75 ft. (4’9” X 4’9” X 4’9”)

Any yard waste over the 4 cubic yards will be left until the following week.

All limbs must be no longer than 4 feet and cannot be greater than 6 inches in diameter and must be stacked neatly at the roadside. All leaves, grass clippings, vines, moss, etc., must be bagged or containerized. Bags, trash cans, and other yard waste containers cannot weigh more than 50 pounds.

It is recommended that yard waste be placed in trash cans or paper yard bags, but not required.

County Trash and Recycling Carts are not to be used for Yard Waste.