WASTE COLLECTION & RECYCLING GUIDELINES FOR Spanish Fort, AL

Curbside garbage service

• Pickup once per week.
• Place your cart curbside by 7:00 a.m. of your scheduled garbage collection day.
• Place all household garbage within the gray cart provided.
• If your total garbage exceeds the volume of your rollout cart, please place additional containers and/or tied bags, not exceeding 40 lbs. each, alongside the gray cart on your scheduled collection day.

Curbside yard waste service

• Pickup once per week.
• Place your bags curbside by 7:00 a.m. of your scheduled garbage collection day.
• Bagged grass clippings, small limbs and small piles of brush will be collected along with garbage on the same collection day.
• Bags of leaves and brush should be deposited in the gray cart along with garbage as space permits.
• Additional bags and small piles of brush capable of being collected by hand should be placed alongside the gray cart.

Curbside bulk items collection

• Tree limbs, old furniture, refrigerators, air-conditioning units, mattresses, bedsprings, large debris, cardboard boxes, etc., will be collected weekdays on an “as needed” basis.
• No item may weigh over 700 pounds and no item or tree limb may be over 8' long.
• Freon must be removed from refrigerators and cooling units, and they must be tagged appropriately by a certified technician.
• Contractors and tree surgeons are responsible for removing construction and demolition debris, limbs and other waste they generate by their work.
• We are unable to collect hazardous waste, including material possibly containing friable and/or non-friable asbestos.
• A maximum average of three cubic yards of bulky waste can be collected weekly at a single residential unit.

 Curbside recycling service

• Pickup once per week per individual resident’s request.
• Place all recycling material, including newsprint, steel cans, aluminum cans, #1 and #2 plastic bottles, and cardboard food containers within the green 18-gallon recycling bins on the scheduled day of collection.
• Those wishing to subscribe for recycling service will be provided additional brochures and literature pertaining to the program.