Spring Clean-Up Day And Document Shredding In Rosemount City Will Be On May 16

Press release from the City of Rosemount:

April 16, 2020

Assuming Governor Walz’s Stay at Home order has been lifted, The City of Rosemount will be hosting its annual Spring Clean-up day on Saturday, May 16, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon in the east parking lot at the Dakota County Technical College at 1300 145th Street East (Co. Road 42). In an effort to protect the health and safety of everyone at the event, some changes will be made this year. Some of these changes are listed later in this article.

This clean-up event is intended to allow participants to dispose of unwanted items that are not normally accepted by their residential trash hauler. Participants can enter the site off of Audrey Avenue just south of the baseball field.

Rosemount will be working with Certified Recycling for collection and disposal of electronic equipment and appliances. Anyone dropping off these items will pay Certified directly. Therefore, participants at the event who wish to dispose of electronics and/or appliances along with other items for which we charge should be prepared to pay Certified Recycling and the City of Rosemount separately.

The price of disposal for some items is listed below. For a more complete list of electronic equipment and the disposal fee for each item please see the City’s website at www.ci.rosemount.mn.us. Please contact the City’s Solid Waste Coordinator at 651-322-6005 with any questions. Please note: Only cash and checks are accepted.

The following is a small list of items accepted at the clean-up event and the associated fees:

• Intact Automotive Batteries - Free
• Construction and Demolition debris - Free
• Fluorescent bulbs $1 - $2.50 depending on size and type
• Carpet - $2 per roll
• Appliances - $10 per item
• Computers/laptops - Free
• Computer Monitors - $20
• TV’s $20 - $75 depending on size
• Tires - $8 per car tire, $15 per truck/tractor tire
• Mattresses, Box Springs - $20 per item
• Sofas/couches - $10 per item
• Other Furniture - $5 per item
• Steel – Clean - Free
• Light – bicycles, exercise equipment, etc. - $2 per item
• Heavy – Lawnmowers, snow blowers, etc. - $5 per item
• Solid Waste/Garbage - $5 per item or $10 per pickup truck load)

This event is for Rosemount residents only and is intended as a means to dispose of household quantities of items. A Driver’s License or other proof of residency will be required. Those with an unusually large number of items to dispose of are asked to make special arrangements with a hauler. Any children attending the clean-up event must be closely supervised, as there are many vehicles and assorted equipment moving throughout the site.

In order to minimize the contact between staff working the clean-up and people coming to the event and the materials they will be dropping off; event participants will be responsible for unloading themselves whatever materials they bring to the event. Participants should be prepared to unload their materials directly into roll-off containers, rear load garbage trucks, or into the front buckets of loaders and skid loaders that will be on site to assist with lifting heavy objects. Everyone at the event, staff and participants, is expected to maintain social distance and to ensure this, we will monitor the number of people in the lot at any one time.

City staff reserves the right to refuse disposal of any item. Items that are not accepted at this event include hazardous waste materials (paint, oil, solvents), compostable material and yard waste. There are other sites in Dakota County that will accept these items. Residents are encouraged to contact the City’s Recycling Coordinator at tom.schuster@ci.rosemount.mn.us or 651-322-6005 with any questions or concerns or in regards to any particular items.

Once again, this year the City will be partnering with the Michelle Hoagland Group, Keller Williams Preferred Realty to offer free paper shredding as part of the Spring Clean- up. The shredding truck will be set up in the east parking lot and participants are asked to follow the signage into the Clean-up drop off site where they will be directed to the shredding truck. There will be no cost to participants for shredding documents and personal information. For more information check the City’s website at www.ci.rosemount.mn.us.

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This press release was produced by the City of Rosemount. The views expressed here are the author’s own.