City Of Pinellas Park Hosts Pride In The Park Fall Cleanup

PINELLAS PARK, FL -- The City of Pinellas Park will kick off Pride in the Park week with its residential weekend cleanup scheduled for Saturday, Sept.8.

Once known as Sparkle Day, the event allows residents to demonstrate pride in their community by improving the appearance of their properties. Residents may dispose of household trash and yard waste at one of eight drop-off sites located throughout the city.

The drop-off sites will accept only household trash and yard waste debris for disposal. Each drop-off site will have large open-top containers -- one for household trash such as paper, cardboard, wood, bedding, etc... and one for yard waste debris. These drop-off sites will not accept food waste. Please separate your yard waste from your household trash and deposit the material into the appropriate containers. The yard waste will be recycled into mulch.

Free recycled mulch will be available at the city's brush site, 12950 40th St. Please bring your own shovel and container and take as much mulch as you like. Hours are Monday-Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Please do not bring items such as food waste, automotive engine blocks, tires (tires without rims only will be accepted at the northwest corner of 78th Avenue and 60th Street and the Home Depot parking lot), automotive and marine batteries, used motor oil, antifreeze or hazardous wastes to the drop-off locations for disposal.

Household bulk items such as dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, water heaters and ranges may be placed at the curb for collection on your regular trash collection days.

Refrigerators must have the doors removed or padlocked.

For additional information about the Saturday cleanup, call the Utility Billing Division at (727) 369-0690 or visit its website.

City ordinance 11-105 prohibits any person from throwing or depositing any garbage, trash or refuse in any stream or body of water. Please report any violation of this ordinance to the city of Pinellas Park Community Compliance at (727) 369-5668.

All discharges of oil, solvents, paints and other like substances into any drainage storm water facility or structure (drainage inlets, manholes, detention ponds, ditches, lakes, etc...) should be reported to the Pinellas County hotline at (727) 464-4425.

Pride in the Park Fall Cleanup drop-off sites will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Drop-off sites are located at:

Bank of America Rear Parking Lot - 5100 block of 72nd Avenue

Broderick Park Parking Lot - 6700 block of 62nd Street

City Property - northwest corner of 78th Avenue and 60th Street

Home Depot Parking Lot - 4040 Park Blvd.

Pinebrook Park Parking Lot - 7002 118th Ave.

Sacred Heart Church Parking Lot - 8001 46th St.

Skyview Recreation - 5400 block of 90th Avenue

Waste Management/City Brush Site - 12950 40th St.

Household Electronics and Chemical Collection Facility - 2855 109th Ave.

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