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One Person's Junk is Another's Treasure: Annual Spring Cleanup is This Week

Like magic, your old junk will disappear—most likely before the garbage trucks even get to it.

Elmhurst College's is over, but Elmhurst residents still have another chance to get rid of unwanted items cluttering up their basements and garages. And, it's the season for thrifty junk collectors and scrappers to cruise the neighborhoods looking for treasures.

An annual tradition, Elmhurst’s annual Spring Cleanup for residents living within the city limits, will take place on regularly scheduled refuse collection days the week of April 16. Just have everything out on the curb on your regular pickup day, either Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, April 18, 19 or 20, and watch it all disappear.

This is the perfect time to get rid of all unwanted items without having to put a sticker on them. But don't put out any electronics, ammunition, large automotive parts, car batteries, tires, boats, snowmobiles, snow blowers, riding mowers, hazardous or medical waste, concrete blocks, bricks, cement, asphalt, radioactive materials, explosives and fluids.

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Acceptable items include appliances, furniture, carpet rolls (no more than 5 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter), fixtures, up to two cubic yards of construction and demolition debris (equal to eight 33-gallon cans), landscape timbers in 3-foot pieces, hardened paint in cans and bulk items. Items other than large appliances, furniture and bulk items must be placed in bags, cans or boxes weighing no more than 50 pounds each.

For a more detailed description of Spring Cleanup, visit www.elmhurst.org, call (630) 530-3020 or stop by the community development counter at City Hall.

Collection of leaves, brush, shrubbery trimmings, twigs, dead flowers and weeds (with soil removed) also has resumed for the spring and summer. A clearly visible yard waste sticker is required for each bag or container. Residents may dispose of two bundles of brush each week at no additional cost. For instructions on proper disposal of yard waste and brush, please visit www.elmhurst.org.


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