Summer Yard Waste Schedule

[Editor's note: The following was submitted by Mayor Rochard Howard's office.]

The Department of Public Works would like to remind residents that yard waste pick up is every other week for the months of June, July, August and September, 2011. The schedule is as follows: 

•     Week of June 13
•     Week of June 27
•     Week of July 11
•     Week of July 25
•     Week of August 8
•     Week of August 22
•     Week of September 5
•     Week of September 19

Weekly yard waste pick up will resume on Monday, October 3 and will run through Friday, November 25, 2011.
 
Yard waste must be placed curbside on your scheduled pick up day in brown paper bags or in barrels marked “yard waste” and must be separated from regular rubbish. Yard waste that will be accepted includes leaves, grass clippings and twigs. No branches, logs or dirt will be picked up.

Malden residents can also bring yard waste to the DPW City Yards at 356 Commercial Street between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and between the hours of 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. No plastic bags will be accepted.

For more information, contact the Malden Department of Public Works (781) 397-7160.