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Residential Household Garbage Collection Services

Posted on: December 22, 2023 - 12:51pm

Residential Household Garbage Collection


Beginning January 2, 2024, the Sunrise Sanitation will service the City of Salem’s residential customers for household garbage collection. In order to assure the highest quality waste collection service possible, the City is requesting that its residential customers assist the City by adhering to the following collection guidelines.
At that time collection will remain hand thrown and in the customer’s own containers or bags until totes are placed on or before April 1, 2025. A limited volume of residential waste will be collected from each residence on a weekly basis. This waste should be contained in no more than (6) six plastic garbage bags, no larger than thirty-three (33) gallons each. If the smaller household garbage bags are used, we request they be placed in the larger bags or standard waste cans (no more than 2 cans, please).
Each Container and/or Bag shall be placed at curbside for collection. Curbside refers to that portion of right-of-way adjacent to paved or traveled City roadways. Containers and Bags shall be placed as close to the roadway as practicable without interfering with or endangering the movement of vehicles or pedestrians. When construction work is being performed in the right-of-way, Containers and Bags shall be placed as close as practicable to an access point for the collection vehicle. The Company may decline to collect any Containers and Bags not so placed or any Waste Material not in a Containers or Bags as specified in the applicable Exhibit hereto.
If cans are used, waste must first be placed in plastic garbage bags and then placed inside cans. As a reminder, household waste must be out no later than 12:00 a.m. (midnight) the night before your scheduled day of pick up. (The City requests that residents place waste at curbside no earlier than the evening before collection.)
NO LOOSE TRASH OR IMPROPERLY CONTAINERIZED
TRASH WILL BE COLLECTED

On weeks of the following holidays, residential garbage collection will run one (1) day behind regular schedule. Any holiday not listed below will NOT affect the collection schedule.

  • New Year's Day 
  • Memorial Day
  • Independence Day (4TH OF July)
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day

The City of Salem and Sunrise Sanitation are working together to make this transition as smooth as possible for our residents. We ask for patience and understanding during this time.


City of Salem Public Works