Green Waste Pickup
Go ahead and fill up your green waste cart with the following materials… grass, leaves, weeds, brush, pine needles, branches, unpainted wood (no nails), untreated wood (no nails), etc.
Load up your 68 gallon cart, but make sure the lid can close. Please do not overfill or pack your cart so tightly that material won’t fall out.
Please do not add trash to your cart. We have to say “no, thank you” to the following materials: dirt, rocks, paper, plastic, Styrofoam, food, sheetrock, metal, painted wood, treated wood, or stained wood.
Sorry, but green waste carts cannot handle tree limbs or wood scraps over three feet long or more than one foot wide. If you are not sure of what can and cannot be recycled via the green waste program, please call us at 725-5156.
Thank you for keeping the green waste program growing. The materials we collect are transported to Scotia for use in their biomass power plant. Green waste reused in this fashion helps to create energy for Humboldt County.
Fortuna and Ferndale’s 2012 green waste pick up rate is only $3.00 per month for convenient curbside service. Green waste carts will be emptied by Eel River Disposal every other week, on the dates listed below.
Schedule for Ferndale
January through June 2012
January 6 and 20, 2012
February 3 and 17
March 2, 16 and 30
April 13 and 27
May 11 and 25
June 8 and 22
(pickup is every other Friday)
Schedule for Fortuna
January through June 2012
January 9 and 23, 2012
February 6 and 20
March 5 and 19
April 2, 16 and 30
May 14 and 28
June 11 and 25
(pickup is every other Monday)
