The city’s transfer station on Howard Street will reopen Tuesday, December 29, 2020. Regular hours are 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, though the station will be closed on Friday, January 1, for New Year’s Day.

Garbage also will not be picked up on New Year’s Day, but will be picked up on the next scheduled day after the holiday. All recycling and garbage pick-up will resume their normal schedules as of January 4, 2021. To find out more, click here.

Spring is here and yard debris pick-up will begin March 31^st on every Wednesday. 

Please place your debris at the curb no sooner than 5pm the night before in paper bags or loose in garbage pails.  We do not accept plastic bags. 

Branches may be bundled in approximately three foot long bundles and each branch may be no more than two inches in diameter.  Please do not bring yard debris to the transfer station. They cannot accept yard debris.

Thank you and enjoy Spring!

SPRING BULK DROP-OFF DATES: Monday, May 10, 2021 – Saturday, May 15, 2021. 

CURBSIDE PICK-UP: Wednesday May 12, 2021

BULK SERVICE PROGRAM

The Bulk Service Program is an opportunity for City residents who pay the city sanitation user fee to drop off household bulk items at the Transfer Station at no cost (some exceptions do apply).  Please see bulk drop off guidelines below. The program is available during regular Transfer Station hours of operation. The program runs twice a year, May and September.  Curbside pick-up is available for a nominal fee.

BULK DROP-OFF GUIDELINES:

• Open to all City residents who pay the sanitation user fee.
• No tipping fee for bulk items.
• One pick-up truck load per city address (4’x8’ truck bed with no sidewalls).
• Photo ID and proof of residency required (utility bill, cable bill or telephone bill).
• Resident must accompany the bulk.
• Prohibited items: Construction debris, yard debris, propane tanks, recyclables and hazardous waste.
• A fee of $15.00 will be charged to dispose of hazardous household waste items such as: air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, anything which contains Freon.  
• Also, there is a $10.00 disposal fee for each tire and a $15 fee for each mattress or box spring.

CURBSIDE PICK-UP GUIDELINES:

Leave a message at 451-4111 to schedule a pick up no earlier than the week before.

• Curbside pick-up fee is $35.00.
• Fee is waived for disabled residents and residents 65 years and older.
• Five bulk item maximum per address.
• A fee of $15.00 will be charged to dispose of hazardous household waste items such as: air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, anything which contains Freon.  
• Also, there is a $10.00 disposal fee for each tire and a $15 fee for each mattress or box spring.

Please note:  Residents are ONLY allowed one bulk service per year!

City officials have announced a PILOT program that is deploying city-owned sanitation receptacles along the Eastbound and Westbound arterials. The receptacles are replacing privately owned cans and provide for more aesthetically pleasing uniformity on the two most highly trafficked streets in the City.

After advance notice to affected owners and residents, the new 95 gallon receptacles were distributed by the Department of Public Works team on Thursday, June 30. Customers received two of the large-capacity “totters,” one for regular household garbage and one for recycling. Both cans feature attached lids and are designed to be picked-up by use of semi-automated sanitation vehicles.

In 2019, supported by a grant from Dutchess County, the City engaged MSW Consulting to conduct a comprehensive survey of the City’s Sanitation service. Noting the City provided a high level of service, with twice weekly service, the consultant’s report recommended exploring the use of semi-automation, upgrading outdated equipment, building shared services relationships, and conducting this PILOT program to understand the feasibility of providing totters citywide.

City Administrator Marc Nelson said, “We heard the concerns of the public, many of whom participated in the consultant’s survey. Trash and garbage can lids blowing around the arterials were a frequently-cited concern, along with a strong commitment to maintain twice weekly pickup. While COVID delayed implementation, we’ve met our revised goal to begin this program before summer. This initiative will help us gauge the cost-benefits with an eye toward implementation citywide in 2022.”

Councilmember Natasha Cherry of the 6^th Ward said, “This is a well-designed roll-out that uplifts the entire City. It will have a very positive impact, not only for the residents along the arterials who are themselves in the test-group, but for all city residents, visitors and passers-by who otherwise would continue to encounter bags of garbage, as well as a variety of cans, out along these busy thoroughfares twice each week. During the wintertime, and during any stormy weather in fact, blowing trash has been an unavoidable blight on our city. Solving the problem along the arterials is a really good first step.”

Councilmember Yvonne Flowers of the 5^th Ward said, “I’m confident that the public will immediately see and feel the impact of this initiative. Loose garbage, cans without lids, and individual bags not placed in cans is a form of blight on our community. I look forward to a successful test period, and am hopeful we will be able to roll this out citywide next year.”

The City reminds all residential sanitation customers that refuse may not be taken to the street prior to 5 p.m. on the day prior to regular collection.

Due to construction work, the Transfer Station at 26 Howard Street will be closed on Wednesday, July 28 and Thursday, July 29. The Transfer Station will resume operations on Friday, July 30 at 7am.

For additional information about the Transfer Station, please visit: https://cityofpoughkeepsie.com/public-works/transfer-station