The City of Douglas and Transwaste are offering a residential Junk Drop-Off Day in August to help citizens get rid of excess trash. The upcoming date will be Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 at Wheeler Park, located at West Gordon Street, from 8 a.m. to noon. A dumpster will be placed at this location to offer residents a way to dispose of large, non-hazardous items and electronic items at no cost.
No one will be available to help unload items, and the city is not responsible for any damages that occur during unloading. No construction material/debris or business/commercial dumping will be allowed. Citizens who attempt to dump materials deemed as construction material or commercial will not be allowed and will be asked to leave.
Construction/debris items should be taken to the Coffee County Landfill, located at 1219 Landfill Road off of Hwy 206 W. Saturday times at the landfill are 8 a.m. to noon, and the charge for dumping items at the landfill is $52.10 per ton.
“We are having issues with persons showing up at the drop off sites with construction materials and/or commercial materials and they expect City workers to unload these items,” says City Manager Terrell Jacobs. “To help deter this from happening, persons who bring items deemed as construction/commercial debris will not be allowed. Also, I want to stress that no city employee will be allowed to unload items –workers who are present on these days are to operate city machinery and supervise junk collections.”
Acceptable brown and white good items include furniture, washing machines, refrigerators, dryers, stoves, microwaves, televisions, and other items. Please drain all chemicals from appliances. This does not apply to construction materials/debris, hazardous chemicals such as paints/solvents, household cleaners, pesticides/herbicides, motor oil, antifreeze, batteries, or tires.
Proof of residency is required to drop off items at the designated location. This is for households in the City of Douglas.
The next residential Junk Drop-Off Day will be on Saturday, September 17, 2016, from 8 a.m. to noon at Bryan Street Circle.
For more information, call (912)384-3302 or dial 311.
– Submitted