Yard Waste Collection Concluded In Town Of Arlington

Press release from Town of Arlington:

December 10, 2021

Yard Waste Update Dec. 10, 10:30 AM

Collection is completed for the season

Yard waste from Friday's route was completed this morning.

If you still have leaves you are raking up, there will be a drop off for yard waste on Saturday, December 18 from 9 AM to 12 PM at 33 Ryder Street. No appointment necessary, Arlington residents only (bring an ID). This drop off is limited to one car load per household.

Yard Waste Update Dec. 9, 2:00 PM

Friday's yard waste should be on the curb by 7 AM

JRM was able to catch up and complete the Wednesday and Thursday routes today. Friday will be completed on time on Friday (Dec. 10). If there was a missed address or part of a street, please report it immediately, either to JRM via email directly: customerservice@jrmhauling.com, or leave a voice message with Recycling Coordinator Charlotte Milan at 781-316-3108.

There will be a drop off for yard waste on Saturday, December 18 from 9 AM to 12 PM at 33 Ryder Street. No appointment necessary, Arlington residents only (bring an ID). This drop off is limited to one car load per household.

Yard Waste Update Dec. 8, 4:30PM
JRM has completed Monday's and Tuesday's routes

JRM will continue tomorrow (Thursday) to complete Wednesday's route and get through as much of Thursday as they can.

Place your yard waste out no later than 7 AM the day of your scheduled collection.

This is the final week of collection for the season. If your yard waste was out on time but was missed, please contact JRM immediately to report it: customerservice@jrmhauling.com

There will be a drop off for yard waste on Saturday, December 18 from 9 AM to 12 PM at 33 Ryder Street. No appointment necessary, Arlington residents only (bring an ID). This drop off is limited to one car load per household.

Thank you for your continued patience.

Yard Waste Update Dec. 7, 3:30PM
JRM has completed Monday's route

JRM will continue tomorrow (Wednesday) to complete Tuesday's route and get through as much of Wednesday as they can.

Place your yard waste out no later than 7 AM the day of your scheduled collection.

This is the final week of collection for the season.

There will be a drop off for yard waste on Saturday, December 18 from 9 AM to 12 PM at 33 Ryder Street. No appointment necessary, Arlington residents only (bring an ID). This drop off is limited to one car load per household.

Thank you for your continued patience.

Dec. 6 Update

The Town would like to apologize for the delays in yard waste collection. We share your frustration and are working with JRM to get the leaves collected within the existing yard waste collection schedule.

JRM sent nine trucks to collect yard waste on Saturday, December 4. and completed the Wednesday and Thursday routes. Friday's route was completed today, Monday.

Monday's collection will begin on Tuesday with the expectation of catching up with the regular schedule by Wednesday morning. Place your yard waste out no later than 7 AM the day of your scheduled collection.

This is the final week of collection for the season.

There will be a drop off for yard waste on Saturday, December 18 from 9 AM to 12 PM at 33 Ryder Street. No appointment necessary, Arlington residents only (bring an ID). This drop off is limited to one car load per household.

Previously posted:

Last collection week is December 6-10.

While you and your neighbors are steadily working to get the leaves off the ground, our partners at JRM are working to get the bags and barrels of leaves to the composting facility.

Filling the trucks with yard waste has not been the primary holdup, it's getting the trucks emptied that presents the biggest challenge. Just like you might run out of bags and need to go to the store for more, JRM trucks fill up and have to leave town to empty their loads, transporting as many as three loads in a day.

We ask for the public's patience during the final weeks of leaf and yard waste collection. It's a heavy, wet season for leaves this year. Reports from surrounding communities confirm that this is a heavy leaf year regionally.

JRM workers follow laws that protect them, and the other drivers, by preventing these already-heavy trucks from overloading and becoming too heavy to travel safely.

Timing is another issue: the Town does not want work to go beyond 5:00 PM, and the truck dump locations close before then.

We will work with JRM to be sure that all routes are taken care of before the season ends, but for that to be a success, please keep the following in mind:

• Reusable barrels MUST be labelled with the Town's "Yard Trimmings" bumper stickers, no exceptions. These are free and available at 51 Grove Street 24/7 in the plastic bins just outside the Customer Service door
• Each piece of yard waste equipment (bag or barrel) must not weigh more than 50 lbs., but please try to keep them to 40 lbs. or under in order to make it more manageable for the workers' backs
• Only place out acceptable material- logs, branches over 1" in diameter, soils, rock, and root balls are all not allowed and will be left behind
• Do not include any food, even if it came from your garden. So no pumpkins, gourds, or apples/fruit from your trees.
• If you use twine to hold sticks together, it must be biodegradable.
• If we get a snowstorm, plowing takes priority over yard waste collection

Remember that all of this material is really made into something else, something organic and put back in the soil, so it's up to all of us to keep plastics out of our yard waste.

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