Dumpster services

Trash and, if wanted, recycling dumpsters are required at the following:

  • Apartments, townhouses or condominiums consisting of vii or more units.
  • Complexes or groups of apartments, townhouses or condominiums which may individually have fewer than 7 units but are developed as a projection whose full units exceed seven and either:
    1. Take a common or shared parking
    2. Share entrances and exits
    3. Have units that do not edge public streets and exercise not have direct access to a curb
    4. They are situated where scroll carts would be grouped in a central location, causing a nuisance to pedestrian traffic.


What you demand to know:

  • Dumpsters are the expense of the possessor or tenant.
  • The metropolis does not lease dumpsters.
  • A dumpster cannot be placed without an LFUCG permit. An institution or dumpster leasing visitor should request a permit by visiting lexingtonky.gov/permits.
  • All new tenants/owners who motion into a site with an existing dumpster must be issued a permit in their name.
  • An inspector from Waste matter Management will visit the proposed site to make up one's mind its acceptability regarding screening, overhead obstructions, truck access, etc. If the site is institute acceptable, a permit will be issued upon payment of the $25 permit fee. If conditions do not run into our standards, a listing of the needed improvements volition be given to the owner/tenant to bring the site up to standards. When the standards accept been met, a re-inspection volition be conducted, and a let is issued after the fee is received.
  • Non-permitted dumpsters will not be serviced.
  • Fines for not-permitted dumpsters can range from $25 – $500.


Dumpster screening

  • The dumpster expanse must be screened on three sides, using material consisting of rock, brick, block, wood or a continuous planting of evergreens. See the example in Dumpster Service Guide.
  • The opening for removal of the dumpster for collection must exist a minimum of 12 feet to allow for proper access when it is serviced. For every dumpster added, an additional 10 feet in width is needed. See the example in Dumpster Service Guide.
  • Whenever screening material is placed around any dumpster, two fixed bulwark guard posts must be in identify. See the example in Dumpster Service Guide.
  • All dumpster enclosures shall be approved past us prior to structure. Learn about the pad area in the Dumpster Service Guide.

Download Dumpster Service Guide


Dumpster service and collection
Dumpsters must be accessible for collection 24 hours a twenty-four hours.

The metropolis provides two collections per week for eight-, half dozen-, four- and two-thou dumpsters. The cost for an boosted collection is now $50 for whatsoever of those containers. Customers tin can schedule an extra dump online. If you have questions call (859) 280-8556 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.chiliad. Monday through Friday.

Payment must be made prior to scheduling a dump, and extra dumps volition be made equally soon equally the schedule allows. Customers may pay in person at Waste material Management's office in the form of check, greenbacks, money lodge or credit card. Credit card payments for extra dumps are accepted over the phone.

Schedule an extra dump

We practise not service dumpsters that are filled by compactors, temporary construction containers, or dumpsters on casters.

Holiday collections
If your collection day falls on a holiday:

  • Your dumpster volition be serviced the mean solar day afterwards the holiday if the holiday occurs on Monday or Tuesday.
  • Your dumpster will be serviced on the Wed earlier your normal drove twenty-four hours if the vacation occurs on a Thursday or Friday.


Service regulations
Certain conditions may prevent us from servicing your dumpster. Some of the reasons are:

  • Our trucks cannot get to the dumpster considering a vehicle or another obstacle blocks access. We will try to return for collection only if the driver's schedule allows. Otherwise, we volition return on your next scheduled collection day.
  • The dumpster has been overfilled beyond the truck's lifting capacity.
  • The dumpster contains illegal material, whether you or someone else placed it there.
  • Overhead electric lines.
  • Dumpster needs repair.


Beefy item pickup
We will not collect bulky items that are byproducts of a business organization. This includes appliances that are furnished by apartment complexes. Apartment complexes may drop off appliances for free at Environmental Recycling, 3899 Winchester Route.

Apartment complexes must designate a location where residents tin can identify acceptable bulky items for pickup. Nosotros must approve such locations.

Maintenance
All dumpsters shall be maintained in a safe and sanitary condition. The user must make clean the dumpster to continue it from becoming malodorous. The city does not make clean dumpsters. A pocket-sized garden-blazon sprayer, containing a common disinfectant will ordinarily have care of the trouble.

Litter and debris shall not be allowed to accumulate effectually the dumpster. All waste should exist deposited in the dumpster in such a way as to forbid it from spilling or blowing out.

All dumpster repairs and maintenance are the responsibility of the owner or leaseholder.

Disposal fees
The city charges a disposal fee for putting cloth in the landfill. You will receive a monthly bill from the city based on the size of your dumpster. If you lot are a property owner and wish to have your tenants billed for their own disposal fees, you lot demand to contact the Segmentation of Acquirement at (859) 258-3340 and request a Tenant Agreement form for the landfill user fee. The monthly disposal fees are:

  • 2 cubic yard – $12.05
  • iv cubic yard – $24.10
  • 6 cubic yard – $36.15
  • 8 cubic k – $48.twenty


Unacceptable items

  • Tires (including rims)
  • Liquids of whatever type (paints, oil,thinners,etc.)
  • Wooden pallets
  • Lumber
  • Tree limbs and brush
  • Sawdust
  • Large engine parts (blocks, heads, etc.)
  • Automobile parts (exhausts, fenders, doors, bumpers, batteries, oil filters)
  • Carpet or carpet padding
  • Large scrap metallic
  • Furniture
  • Mattresses and box springs
  • Piping and plumbing materials
  • Appliances (stoves, refrigerators, freezers)
  • Metal shavings
  • Physical block
  • Bricks
  • Structure material (drywall, paneling)
  • Excavated globe (gravel, rock)
  • Compacted nutrient waste product
  • Metal drums
  • Wire binding
  • Sewage
  • Processed sludge
  • Hazardous or toxic material