New Years Day January 1, 2025 The Landfill & Recycling Center will be closed on Wednesday. Trash and recycling will be collected on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Bulky items, yard waste, and County trash and recycling will be collected on Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Live tree collection during the month […]

  Christmas Day Holiday Notices Wednesday, December 25th is Christmas. The Ottumwa / Wapello Recycling Center and Landfill will all be closed on Wednesday, December 25th in observance of Christmas. Regular non-commercial curbside trash and recycling will be Thursday, December 26th. Yard waste, bulky items, and County Customers will all […]

Weekly curbside trash and recycling collection dates inside city limits are not affected by the holiday. Rural trash and recycling customers normally collected Thursdays will be collected on Tuesday, November 26 the week of Thanksgiving. Thursday yard waste and bulky item collection (north of the Des Moines River) will be […]

Monday, November 11, 2024, is the state and federal holiday of Veterans Day. City trash and recycling collection normally done on Mondays will now be on Tuesday, November 12. All yard waste and bulky item pickup will be done on Thursday, November 14. Call Bridge City Sanitation at 641-682-1700 by […]

  City Hall will be closed the week of October 23 -27. Services provided at City Hall will be extremely limited or halted that week as City Hall will be moving to its temporary offices during the city hall construction project. This move is happening as part of the City […]

FEES WILL INCRASE ON JULY 1 AS FOLLOWS: $61.00 per ton for general trash. Minimum tipping fee set at $15.50, yard waste fee set at $32.50/ton, with minimum yard waste fee of $8.50, and a load with fire/hot ash double the total fee or a minimum of $175.00 separation charge, […]

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