Spring Clean up April 22-26

OC’s annual Spring Clean-up, sponsored by the City of OC and OC Sanitation, will be held April 22-26.

OC residents must purchase a $10 lawn flag (one for each household) from the City Office (125 Central Ave. SE) or OC Sanitation (710 Ohio Ave. SW). Sanitation crews will only remove those items that have a special lawn flag displayed nearby. All disposed of items must be placed at your usual pick-up site on your regular garbage pick-up day.

Alton’s Annual Spring Clean-Up, sponsored by the City of Alton and OC Sanitation, will be held April 29. Residents must purchase a $10 lawn flag (one for each household) from the City Office (905 Third Ave.) or OC Sanitation (710 Ohio St. SW).

Sanitation crews will only remove those items that have a special lawn flag displayed nearby. All disposed of items must be placed at your usual pick-up site on your regular garbage pick-up day.

Allowable items: Allowable items: garage and home items, furniture/wood items, and mattresses/carpets.

Non-allowable items: all appliances/white goods, TV’s, building-remodeling materials, wood chips, auto parts (tires, batteries, etc.), concrete, steel/iron, yard waste tree branches, oil, yard chemicals, or wet paints.

Special pick-up arrangements may be available for these items with OC Sanitation (737-2645).

With the arrival of spring, we want our cities to shine “spic & span” for our visiting guests!

free e-recycling program

The Cities of Orange City & Alton are co-sponsoring a free e-recycling program that will accept computer monitors, CPU’s, keyboards, printers and mouse(s), smaller batteries, and TV’s. Sorry, car batteries and light bulbs are not allowed. Items can be dropped off at Alton City Hall, 905 3rd Avenue on Friday, May 3, 4:00-7:00 pm and Saturday, May 4, 9:00 am -12:00 pm.

Household Hazardous Waste: Watch the Advisor or the Vibrant Newsletter for more information on this falls HHW event!

Sponsored by: the City of Orange City and the City of Alton