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| News | Location & Hours | Yard Waste Reduction Program | Yard Waste Collection Sites | Recycling Program | Restricted Items | Current Fees | Transfer Station - NewsMunicipally owned, the automated refuse collection services are supported by a $14.50 per month fee, are available to residential customers. Privately owned services are available for commercial and industrial customers; rates are negotiable with the hauler. If you need assistance in picking up brush or other large items please contact the transfer station for more information.
Yard waste in banned from landfills from April 1st to November 30th of every year. Since yard waste (leaves and grass clippings) are no longer allowed to put into landfills, the City of McCook has setup several yard waste collection sites throughout the city for resident use only. These sites contain large green 600 gallon dumpsters to allow the Sanitation Department faster cleanup of these sites. We ask that no plastic bags be thrown into the yard waste dumpsters as this product is gathered and composted, which is also available to the public for no charge.
The yard waste collection sites have large green 600 gallon dumpsters. Only leaves and grass clippings are to be placed in these containers. We ask that you not put plastic bags in the containers.
The following items are banned from being put into landfills. If you have
questions about a product that is not on our list please contact us for more information.
We may have an alternative solution.
The City has taken over recycling program from McCook Recyclers. The Recycling Center has been relocated to the same site as the Transfer Station. The City accepts the following materials; Cardboard - Packaging boxes of any type and brown paper sacks. Glass - Only accepting brown glass at this time, rinsed out and no lids. Paper - newspapers, magazines, copy paper, junk mail, phone books Plastics - Any container plastics labeled #1 and #2 only, rinsed out and no lids. Metal - Iron, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, lead, and tin cans, rinsed out and labels removed. White Goods - Washers, dryers, stoves. Refrigerators, freezers and AC units must have freon drained and certification must be on unit when brought in. Other - Mowers, batteries Comments - WE ASK THAT EVERYTHING BROUGHT INTO THE CENTER IS RINSED
OUT AND LABELS ARE REMOVED, ALL THE ITEMS ARE SEPARATED AND PUT IN MARKED BOXES OR BINS.
Residential: $14.50/ Month.
($13.50 plus $1.00 for recycling) Commercial: $54.68/Ton with a $5.00 minimum charge. Non-Resident: $54.68/Ton
with a $5.00 minimum charge |