Trash, Yard Waste & Recycling Collection


COLLECTION SCHEDULE & GENERAL INFORMATION

2011 Rumpke Holiday Collection Schedule

2012 Rumpke Holiday Collection Schedule

Rumpke Customer Service:  (502) 568-3800

Effective June 1, 2009, the City of Jeffersontown will begin service with its new sanitation provider Rumpke. The change in service was awarded through a sealed bid process and voted upon by the Jeffersontown City Council on May 4, 2009. 
 

The residents of Jeffersontown will notice the following changes:

• Trash will be collected one (1) time per week. Rumpke will provide each resident with two (2) 95 
  gallon forest green hinged lid wheeled carts. 

 BULK ITEM PICK-UP

• Bulk items include items not able to fit in Rumpke Trash Carts.  Please contact Rumpke (568-3800) between the hours of 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. the day before your regular trash collection day to schedule bulk item pick-up. These items will be picked up on your regularly scheduled trash collection day  – leave no more than 3 items at a time.

YARD WASTE

• Yard waste will be collected one (1) time per week, two (2) days after regularly scheduled trash pick-up. Residents can utilize 30-35 gallon cans or (1) of the 95 gallon cans provided by Rumpke.  Cans should clearly be labeled "YARD WASTE", 30-35 gallon paper or plastic yard waste bags will also be accepted.

RECYCLING

• Recycling will be collected one (1) time every two (2) weeks. Rumpke will provide each resident one (1) 65 gallon forest green hinged lid wheeled cart labeled "Rumpke Recycling" on the side. Recycling will be expanded to include:

  
  GLASS
  
  ACCEPTABLE: Clear, brown, green and blue glass bottles and jars in which food products are packaged.  Labels do not need to be removed, please rinse.
  
  NOT ACCEPTABLE: Plastic or metal lids, drinking glasses, light bulbs, broken glass or windowpanes.

  
  PAPER
  
  ACCEPTABLE: 

  • White Paper: computer or copy paper; white paper tables, adding machine tape

  • Folders:  manila or colored

  • Mail:  letters, brochures, advertisements, magazines up to one inch thick 

  • Correspondence:  legal pads, white or color, "sticky notes", index cards, faxes

  • Envelopes:  with windows or labels, colored and coated

  • Cardboard:  broken down, 2' x 2'

  • Other:  brown envelopes, egg cartons, brown grocery bags, telephones books

  • Newspaper:  includes inserts

  • Paperboard:  cereal, cake mix, cracker boxes, beverage boxes, gift boxes

  
  NOT ACCEPTABLE:  Pizza boxes, milk cartons, wax coated beverage containers, paper plates and cups, napkins or facial tissue, books, hard cover or paperback, styrofoam egg cartons.

  
  METAL
   

  ACCEPTABLE:  Aluminum and bi-metal beverage cans, steel food/tin cans, empty aerosol cans.  Labels do not need to be removed, please rinse and flatten

  
  NOT ACCEPTABLE:  Paint cans, coat hangers, steel scrap, household batteries.

  
  PLASTIC
   

  ACCEPTABLE:  All plastics bottles and jugs marked clearly marked with the numbers #1 through #7, examples include: bottles for soda, water, laundry detergent, sports drinks, shampoo, contact solution and milk jugs (lids and caps should be removed)

  
  NOT ACCEPTABLE:  Plastics other than bottles and jugs.