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Garbage & Recycling For residential customers, waste pickup is once a week. Sachse uses the 95-gallon polycart method for waste pickup. If you have an alley, your trash will be picked up in the alley. Otherwise, you must place your polycart curbside by 7:00 am of your designated trash day. Recycling pickup for residential customers is once a week on either Monday or Tuesday and picked up at the same location as your polycart. Bulk item pickup is once a month, during the second Wednesday week of the month (the week in which the second Wednesday of the month falls except in December when bulk pickup is scheduled after Christmas) and on the same day as your polycart trash day. The material that you wish to be collected must be in front of your home, (bulk trash trucks are too large to drive in our alleys) curbside by 7:00 am the same day that your polycart is picked up. Sachse has an ordinance which prohibits residents from placing bulk items out prior to the Monday of the week of pick up. Allied Waste will pick up bulk items not to exceed four cubic yards (about the size of two sofas). If it is tree trimmings, they must be cut and bundled in four foot sections. The term "bundle" shall be defined as trees, shrub and brush trimmings or newspapers and magazines securely tied together forming an easily handled package, not exceeding four (4) feet in length, six (6) inches in diameter, or 50 pounds in weight. Total amount of "bundled material" set out for collection each month (per home) shall not exceed four (4) cubic yards (12' x 3' x 3'). Hazardous waste materials such as oil, paint, tires and batteries are not included in bulk pickup. These may be taken to the Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center (see below for more details). Items with freon must be drained of all freon and tagged clear by a licensed air/heating company. Furniture, appliances, brush (4' - 5' lengths) and other large items will be picked up as long as it does not exceed 4 cubic yards. For additional information on special materials disposal, please contact Allied Waste at 972.422.2341. For all other questions regarding waste pickup, call Utility Billing at 972.495.1212, ext. 29 or 30.
Allied Waste has announced that they WILL pick up plastic containers #1 and #2, glass jars and bottles of any color, aluminum and tin cans, all junk mail, chipboard (including cereal/cracker boxes), corrugated cardboard, newsprint, magazines, catalogs, computer paper and stationary. They CANNOT pick up plastic film or bags, kitchen or yard waste, bottle caps, plastic motor oil bottles, batteries of any type, styrofoam or "peanuts" and bubble wrap. Some Helpful Hints: Flatten out cardboard boxes and set them UNDER your recycling bin. If boxes are large (such as moving boxes or appliance boxes), please cut them into smaller, more manageable sizes. NO CAPS OR LIDS PLEASE. Caps and lids CANNOT be recycled. If left on containers they become dangerous due to pressure build-up when the handling equipment crushes them. They become projectiles and can cause serious injury. BULK COLLECTION is the same day as regular trash pick up during the second Wednesday week of the month. Please place bulk trash out front curb side, not in the alley. The bulk trash trucks are too large to drive down our alleys, so BULK PICKUP WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE FRONT, CURB SIDE. Place your bulk trash out by 7:00 am the same day as your polycart pickup. If you have any questions or problems, please call Allied Waste at 972.422.2341 or City Hall at 972.495.1212, ext. 29 or 30.
HINTON LANDFILL AND WOOD WASTE CENTER
3175 Elm Grove Road, Rowlett
PLEASE
NOTE: There
are new rules for hauling and dumping trash.
Click
here for more information. The Hinton Landfill and Wood Waste
Center is open to Sachse residents at NO charge.
Sachse residents may NOT, however, dump at the Transfer Station (1434
Commerce Street, Garland) or the Recycling Center (1426 Commerce Street,
Garland) free of
charge. There WILL be a charge for Sachse residents to dump at the
Transfer Station or Recycling Center. The Hinton Landfill is open Monday through
Friday from 8:00 am until 5:00
pm (except for holidays) and Saturdays from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm. The landfill will NOT accept liquid or hazardous waste, such as anti-freeze or
paint*. Hazardous waste items must be taken to the Home Chemical
Collection Center located at 11234 Plano Road. (Sachse is now a member
of the hazardous waste collection site, therefore, there is NO fee to
dump hazardous materials at this site.)
HELPFUL HINT: Paint
can be disposed of in your polycart if you take the
lid off and dry out the paint by adding sand or cat litter.
The
Hinton Landfill and Wood Waste Center is located at 3175 Elm Grove Road in
Rowlett. Their phone number
is 972.205.3670.
What
Type of Waste Should go to Each Location? Hinton Landfill and Wood Waste Center: Non-hazardous solid waste (trash) brought by waste companies,
private haulers, and residents including wood waste, trees, stumps, limbs,
leaves, grass clippings, wood fence material and lumber. Hazardous waste will not be accepted. See below for information on the
Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center. Who Should go to Which Location? Garland, Rowlett or Sachse Residents:
Cars or single rear axle trucks without a trailer; cars or single rear axle
trucks towing a trailer may use Hinton Landfill Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am
to 5:00 pm and Saturdays, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Persons with Bricks: Please use the Hinton Landfill (no charge for clean
bricks). DALLAS COUNTY HOME CHEMICAL COLLECTION CENTER (HC3)
The Dallas County Home Chemical Collection Center, located at 11234 Plano Road,
one mile north of IH 635 (between Miller Road and Forest Lane) is now open
and accessible to Sachse residents FREE OF CHARGE. PLEASE
NOTE: Residency will be
verified using your current driver's license and water
bill or other utility bill as proof of residence. Please bring two
forms of residency verification. The building is easily identified by
its white color and bright turquoise trim. The entrance to the
collection area is the first driveway north of the railroad tracks on the
east side of the street DO NOT turn in the driveway closest to
the building as this is the EXIT gate.
Hours of operation are Tuesdays from 9 am to 7:30 pm; Wednesdays and Thursdays
from 8:30 am to 5 pm; and the second and fourth Saturdays of the month
from 9 am to 3 pm. They are NOT open on Sundays, Mondays, Fridays, or the
first and third Saturdays of the month.
Things you can bring for disposal: Chemical products for home use; paint
and home repair products; lawn and garden chemicals; aerosol sprays; pool
chemicals; craft and hobby supplies; cleaners and polishes; batteries of all
kinds; automotive fluids and oil filters; and fluorescent light tubes.
Things you CANNOT bring for disposal: business or commercial waste; containers
larger than five (5) gallons; explosives or ammunition; shock sensitive
materials; smoke detectors or other radioactive materials; medical waste;
common trash or recyclables; construction debris; and electronics or
appliances. To read more information about the Home Chemical
Collection Center,
click here, call 214.553.1765, or check their website at
http://www.dallascounty.org/department/plandev/hhw_intro.htm
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