Winter is here.
With winter comes snow storms, freezing rain, high winds, ice, and poor road conditions.
Trash and recycling collection is a service that persists all year long, and the conditions that come with winter often affect our ability to collect. While we try to provide outstanding reliable service to our customers regardless of weather or road conditions, there are some situations we cannot avoid.
Due to the Black Hawk County Landfill closing early Friday, April 26, 2024 – Commercial and Industrial routes will see some delays on service. Residential collection will remain as normal.
Due to a family emergency, the Fayette County rural route is experiencing a slight delay. If you are a Wednesday Fayette County resident and were not picked up, the driver will be collecting Thursday morning.
The Black Hawk County Landfill is closed today due to high winds.
Black Hawk Waste Disposal will still be collecting residential trash on 4/3/24.
Commercial trash collection will be delayed.
Thursday, March 28, rural route around Janesville, finchford, and north cedar falls is running slightly behind schedule. We will be collecting Friday March 29.
There is a one day delay for the rural areas around Cedar Falls, Janesville, and Waverly.
If you are normally a Wednesday pickup in these listed areas, we will be collecting on Thursday instead.
La Porte rural residential and commercial is experiencing slight delay due to the weather.
The makeup day is Saturday, March 23.
Hudson rural residential and surrounding communities are experiencing slight delays due to the weather. The makeup day is Monday, March 25
Our route that handles the Rural Janesville/North of Cedar Falls area is running a little behind today.
If there are stops that he does not get today, they will be picked up in the morning.
We would like to thank everyone for being patient while we catch up due to the snow storm we had on Tuesday, January 9th.
We have been diligently addressing as many missed stops as possible. Please be aware that gravel roads may pose challenges and prevent pickup until they are adequately plowed and treated with salt.
We apologize to any customers that were not picked up this week due to weather related issues. We have instructed our drivers in the areas with missed trash collection, to collect extra trash at your next collection.
Due to the upcoming snow storm, the landfill has reported they will be closing at noon Friday, January 12, 2024. Our routes will run for as long as they are able to safely remain on the streets. We have pulled in additional drivers to assist in preventing as many missed pickups as we are able.
Please be aware that rural gravel roads, and alley collections will be at driver discretion and your trash may not be collected until your next scheduled pickup. We understand holding onto your trash for an extra week is not pleasant, but our goal is safety of our employees and other road travelers.
Garbage trucks are much larger than a normal personal vehicle, and rural gravel roads can be treacherous when unsalted. We encourage all residents in rural areas to check into having their road *heavily* salted, to clear their roads of packed snow, and ice.
Our Industrial and Commercial routes will have delays until all routes are caught up. There may be extra day delays when waiting for service while the weather sorts itself out. We apologize and hope to have routes caught up as quickly as possible.
We were closed Tuesday, January 9, due to weather.
Customers on gravel roads and alleys may experience service interruptions until next week.
For safety reasons, we will not be traversing gravel roads and alleyways, to allow plows sufficient time to clear pathways.
If your trash collection was missed Tuesday, we appreciate your understanding as we work to provide pickups for all of our customers, as quickly as we are able. We apologize that there will be some locations that cannot be collected until the roads are clear.
Please be advised, that clear roads for a personal vehicle, is not the same thing as a clear road for a commercial vehicle.
For commercial businesses, please make sure your enclosures are plowed/shoveled out, your locks are unfrozen, including the latches that slide into the concrete, and in front of the dumpsters are salted.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
