Yard Waste Pick-Up Starts Today
Next month the city will begin picking up yard waste twice a month, except for August and December where it is only picked up once.
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The warm weather this week may have caused you to start cleaning up your yard, but you'll have to wait a few weeks before the city will pick up your bagged leaves curbside.
All yard waste must be put into brown paper yard waste bags and put out along with your regular trash. No plastic bags are accepted.
Residents can also bring yard waste to the Department of Public Works at 356 Commercial Street between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 8 a.m. and noon on Saturday. For more information call the DPW at 781-397-7160.
Beginning Monday, April 9 and continuing through Friday, Dec. 7, the city will pick up yard waste as follows:
Week of April 9-13
Week of April 23-27
Week of May 7-11
Week of May 21-25
Week of June 4-8
Week of June 18-22
Week of July 2-7
Week of July 16-20
Week of August 13-17
Week of Sept. 10-14
Week of Sept. 24-28
Week of Oct. 9-13
Week of Oct. 22-26
Week of Nov. 5-9
Week of Nov. 19-24
Week of Dec. 3-7
fc
12:44 pm on Sunday, March 25, 2012
This is a significant change from past practice and different information than was on the city website even two weeks ago (when I checked). Two weeks ago they said yard waste pickup would start the first week of April, pickup would be weekly except for the months of June, July, August when it would be every other week.
This is not enough pickup for Malden and means there will be more dumping.
Why don't they even say that yard waste pickup will be a lot different than in the past? are we not supposed to know or care?
robert wilson
1:41 pm on Sunday, March 25, 2012
I have to agree fc, it runs longer but with fewer pickups the first couple of months it leaves a lot of waste lying around in peoples yards, bags getting wet and falling apart.
DannyBoy
4:12 pm on Sunday, March 25, 2012
I think this schedule is not very helpful to residents, why don't they run bi-weekly between April and September, and then on a weekly basis between October and December, when the leaves start falling during the changeover in season?
fc
5:27 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012
Danny, can you be my neighbor? :)
Many people in malden do not pick up their leaves so there is a lot to do in the spring. I think we need weekly pickup for a few weeks in the spring and the fall.
True story. At the first snowfall my neighbors rake their leaves into the street. Then the city pays them to plow so they distribute the leaves to their neighbors. Have seen it for 20 years.
DannyBoy
7:36 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012
fc, I'm sorry to hear that your neighbors don't cooperate and share your concern. I'm sure you've spoken to them about this. *sigh* What can you do? We don't live in a perfect world...