Yard Waste Pick-Up Begins April 9

Have you been taking advantage of the early spring weather to get some yard work done?

If so, you may be accumulating some yard waste. Now you can easily get rid of those last fallen leaves, twigs and assorted other items.

Beginning Monday, April 9, yard waste pick-ups will resume with regular trash pick-ups in Avon.

What is classified as yard waste? Leaves, grass clippings, shrubbery clipping, twigs and small tree limbs.

offered some guidelines for leaving yard waste out for pick-up.

• Waste must be in compostible brown paper bags, or loose in old trash bins (not the current Allied Waste bins) without lids.
• Tree limbs must be cut into 4-foot lengths, and bound with compostible rope or twine.

Yard waste pick-up will go on until Dec. 14.