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Garbage Information
Attention: Town of Windermere Residents:
The Town of Windermere has a mandatory refuse ordinance. We bill annually at the beginning of each fiscal year (October through September). Payments are due and payable upon receipt.
NEW RESIDENTS:
Please contact Linda Bouton at the Town Office (407-876-2563 x22) and provide her with your billing address, so that refuse service can be established and prorated in your closing if necessary.
COLLECTION:
Garbage Collection is picked up on Tuesdays & Fridays
Recycling is picked up on Tuesdays
All Yard Waste is picked up on Wednesdays
ALL ITEMS MUST BE ON THE CURB BY 7am FOR PICKUP
SPECIAL PICK UP (LARGE ITEMS) IS PROVIDED TWICE A YEAR. PLEASE CALL WASTE PRO DIRECTLY TO ARRANGE FOR A TIME AND DATE OF PICKUP.
WASTE PRO
"The Waste Professionals"
(407-774-0800)
Town of Windermere
Rules & Regulations
Garbage:
- Each container must be at curbside by 7:00 AM, and not to exceed 50 pounds in weight, including container when full.
- Standard containers consist of either cans with tight fitting lids or sealed plastic bags. Containers must not exceed 32 gallon and be in a safe and sanitary condition. Waste Pro is not liable for items stored on, in or near garbage.
- If any item is not acceptable as GARBAGE, it will be placed back in your container. The following types of garbage will be picked up: normal household refuse, which shall include refuse from table and stove, small amounts of paper from kitchen and bathroom, bagged or wrapped and placed in containers or sealed bags.
Recycling:
- All recycling will be collected curbside and shall be in the approved recycling bin provided by the Town and shall be placed within 3 feet of the curb or roadway by 7:00 AM for collection.
- Unacceptable items will not be picked up.
- Acceptable items: all glass bottles and jars, aluminum, metal and tin cans, plastic soda bottles, plastic milk and water jugs and newspaper.
- If you have more materials than the bin will hold, then put newspaper in a paper bag and place the bag on top of the recycling bin.
Yard Waste:
- Must be containerized, bagged or bundled. Bundles tied and not to exceed 4 feet in length.
- Each container must be at curbside by 7:00 AM, and not to exceed 50 pounds in weight and 32 gallon in size.
- Unacceptable items will not be picked up (i.e. construction/remodeling materials).
- Acceptable items: all vegetable matter resulting from residential yard and landscape maintenance to include tree and shrub trimmings, grass clippings, palm fronds or small tree branches (not to exceed 6 inches in diameter per branch).
Holidays:
- New Years Day
- 4th of July
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
*If your collection day falls on one of the above holidays, your collection service will be on your next scheduled pick-up day*
