FAQ's

Refuse Collection

Please have all trash and recycling to the curb by 6am on your trash day.
 

* Seniors (65 years and over) wanting the discounted rate will be responsible for making application on a form available from the utility office (Plum St. side of City Hall) at (937) 642-6861 or by clicking HERE.  Proof of age and residency at the property for which the discount is being applied will be required.  NOTE:  The senior citizen applying for the discounted rate must be the named account holder on the utility account/bill provided by the City of Marysville Utility Department.

Proof of age may include birth certificate or driver's license.  Other government issued documents clearly demonstrating the applicant's date of birth may be accepted at the sole discretion of the City of Marysville. 

Proof of residency.  The City reserves the right to inspect property tax, income tax, utility billing, residential leases, or other records as required to determine the property for which the application is submitted is the applicant's primary residence and the applicant will be receiving the direct benefit of the discount in trash collection pricing.

Other items may be requested as necessary to confirm that the seniors receiving the discounted rate are the persons who directly benefit from this rate reduction.

Multi-Family Residences  For multi-family residences receiving City services where the utility service is master metered (2-3 unit apartments and/or mobile home communities), in order for tenants to qualify for the senior discount the following steps apply:

• The owner must provide a semi-annual tenant listing (January 1 and July 1 of each year) clearly identifying the tenants residing in each unit.  Failure to provide the required semi-annual tenant listing will disqualify all tenants at that location from receiving the senior rate discount.

• The tenant named on the residency listing must submit the senior discount application form.

The Director of Finance (or designee) will review and approve or deny each application submitted for the reduced pricing.  If an application is determined to be denied, the decision rendered may be appealed to the Director of Administration.

Program Benefits:

• Unlimited curbside bag collection **

• Unlimited curbside recycling **

• Unlimited curbside bulk item collection **

** For those items the City can collect.

Tires, batteries, motor oil, and appliances containing Freon should be disposed of by contacting Union Recyclers directly at (937) 642-7283.  Fees may apply.

Holidays
If your regular trash is on or after the following holidays and the holiday is on a weekday, pickup will be delayed by one day:  New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.  The week after the holiday, collection will resume on its normal scheduled day for all refuse services.

Click Here for Refuse Collection Brochure.  For utility billing and payment please call the Utility office at (937) 642-6861 between the hours of 8am and 4:30pm, M-F, except holidays.  For trash collection service and yard waste collection, including leaf, grass, brush and yard waste, call the Public Service Center at (937) 642-0116 between the hours of 7:30am and 4pm, M-F, except holidays.

Curbside Recycling

All residents are encouraged to recycle.  Recycling is picked up on your normal trash day between 6am and 7pm.  Holidays observed by the recycling crew are New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.  Click Here for a brochure describing how and what to recycle.  For additional information and to request a recycling bin please contact the City of Marysville at (937) 642-0116.

Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulb Disposal - The local Home Depot store at 880 Coleman's Crossing Blvd. in Marysville will accept burned out (CFL) bulbs at no charge.  Take the burned out bulb to the service desk and they will dispose of it for you.  Please Note:  They will not accept any broken bulbs.  If you have any questions, call Home Depot at (937) 578-0280.

Sanitation Services

• The City will no longer accept dirt or sod; please call Cherokee Landfill for disposal (800) 686-1732.

• Residents are required to separate yard waste from other refuse, garbage and recyclable materials

• Yard waste must be in single biodegradable paper bags with no bags inside.  Plastic bags cannot be used.  Weight limit of 50 lbs. per bag.  Containers as well as garbage cans with yard waste are no longer accepted.

• Yard waste materials include grass clippings, weeds, leaves, straw, corn stalks, plants, mulch, hedge trimmings, vines and roots.  NO SOD, DIRT, ROCKS, or CONCRETE.

• Please do not put dog, cat or any other animal waste with yard waste; it can go in the regular trash.

• Please have all yard waste and brush out by 6am, curbside, on your regular trash day.  Do no set yard waste in alleys.

The City of Marysville encourages residents not to bag grass clippings.  Through a regular yard care routine, grass clippings can be left on the lawn, allowing them to work their way back into the soil.

• Brush will not be collected from October 1 through December 31, so that we can provide leaf collection services.

• Brush also must be curbside by 6am on your regular trash day.  Do not set brush in alleys.

• Brush must be free of nails, rocks, garbage, vines, and wire.  Mixed bags will not be picked up by either trash or yard waste crews.

• Brush includes tree, shrub clippings and vines.  DO NOT MIX VINES WITH ANY OTHER CLIPPINGS.

• Trees and bushes with roots cannot go through the chipper.  Roots must be cut off and will be picked up by other crews.

• No railroad ties, landscaping timbers, lumber, boards, or other debris.

• Railroad ties and treated landscape timbers can no longer be picked up by the regular trash trucks nor by City crews.  Please call Cherokee Landfill at (800) 686-1732 for information about landscaping timber disposal.

• The longer the trimmings are, the easier it is for the City crews to remove them, therefore there is no maximum length.  However, trimmings should be at least 4' in length.  Smaller than this should be bundled.  The maximum diameter is 8".  If small brush is bundled, use string or tape, NO WIRE.

• The amount of trimmings picked up will be limited to one truck load per day per resident billing address.  Trimmings done by contractors will not be picked up.

• Live Christmas trees are collected on your regular trash day when placed at the curb by 6am.  All decorations and bulbs must be removed before the tree is placed at the curb.  Trees should not be wrapped or placed in bags.

This service allows residents to rake or blow their leaves to the edge of the roadway/curb.

• Leaf vacuums will operate from the first week of October through December 31 (weather permitting).

• All leaves must be in paper biodegradable bags from January 1 through September 30.  NOTE:  Leaves must be bagged in mobile home parks year round.  There is a central location for drop off of leaves and yard waste.  Check with the manager of your mobile home park for details.  Leaf vacuums DO NOT run routes in any of the mobile home parks.  Weight limit of 50 lbs. maximum.

• Rake leaves to the edge of the roadway/curb by Monday morning at 6am to ensure pickup each week.

• Do not place leaves in the roadway or pile them around parked cars, fire hydrants, or catch basins.  The leaf vacuum is not able to maneuver around parked cars.

• Keep children away from leaf piles that are ready for collection.

• Leaf piles mixed with grass trimmings, stones, branches, etc. will not be collected.

After this service has ended for the year, place leaves in paper biodegradable bags for collection as a part of the yard waste collection program.

Holidays
Yard Waste, Brush, and Leaf Collection Services will not be available on the following days if on a weekday:  New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
 

Click Here for Sanitation Services brochure.  Please call the Sanitation office at (937) 642-7305 or the Street Department at (937) 642-4767 with any questions.

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