PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - Brush/Clean Wood Collection Event

Public Service Announcement

Brush/Clean Wood Collection Event

Coos County will hold a residential brush/clean wood collection event at the Beaver Hill Disposal Site starting on Tuesday – May 26, 2009 and run through Tuesday – June 09, 2009. The fee for brush will be waived for this time period.

Examples of accepted items: NAILS OK – NO OTHER METAL

¨ Residential Shrub/Tree trimmings

¨ Tree limbs to 24" in diameter

¨ Orchard Tree Trimmings Suggested Donation:

¨ Small stumps up to 24" - must be free of dirt, sand and rock Canned Food for Local Food Banks

¨ Woody Biomass from Land Clearing

¨ Grapevines – cut to 3-4 foot, Bamboo

¨ Logging slash, limbs, tops, small diameter logs

¨ Paneling, Lumber, Plywood, Fiberboard (including OSB ply board)

¨ Clean demolition wood

¨ Wood Pallets & Wooden Crates

¨ Wood Shakes

¨ Old wooden picnic tables & patio furniture

¨ Old wooden fence boards & wood posts – NO WIRE

Not accepted: Noxious Weeds (Scotch Broom, Gorse, etc.) Sheet rock, Creosote, Osmose or other treated woods, Asphalt singles, Rolled roofing, Plastic Decking, Vinyl Coated Material, Acoustical tiles, concrete shakes, sod & dirt

If you have any questions, please call 396-5444. Please leave a short message and a phone number as booth attendant may be outside the booth with customers.

If you have household garbage, furniture, appliances, tires, or construction debris that you are bringing to Beaver Hill, please remember those items will need to be separated. The fees for these items will not be waived during the brush collection event.

Recycling items that are accepted for no charge at Beaver Hill are as follows:

¨ E-Waste (TV's, Computers & Monitors) – Limit of 7

¨ Newspapers , Magazines, Phone Books, Junk Mail, Recyclable Paper

¨ Cardboard (flattened), cereal boxes (flattened)

¨ Aluminum and tin cans – foil, TV dinner trays, pop & beer cans (must be clean)(do not flatten)

¨ Plastic (Bottleneck #1 - #7) (milk jugs, water bottles, laundry soap jugs, etc.) – must be clean, no lids

¨ Margarine, Cottage Cheese, Yogurt Containers – must be clean – (do not crush or flatten)

¨ Glass jars – Clear, green and brown – (must be clean)

¨ Flower pots – any size/material – These are for re-use – must be clean

¨ Motor Oil & Cooking Oil (in 1-2 gallon clear plastic containers with tight lids)

¨ Antifreeze (in 1-2 gallon clear plastic containers with tight lids)

¨ Lead-Acid Batteries (auto, motorcycle, lawn equipment)

¨ Rechargeable Batteries, Nickel Cadmium, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries

¨ Cell phones

Beaver Hill Disposal Site Hours

Tuesday – Saturday: 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Closed Sunday and Monday