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Trash Pick-Up Information

Let us take this moment to thank you for your business! In order to serve you better, we have prepared a list of guidelines for your disposal needs. Please take a moment to review our procedures. By doing so, you will know what to expect from our staff each week as we service your home.

Customer Service

Customer Service Reps are available to assist you Monday through Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm. Call us toll free at 877-609-6753.
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Your service includes household trash, yard waste, and recyclables. Please do not put trash in cardboard boxes or loose trash in trash containers. For the safety of our employees, please limit all containers and bags to no more than 50 lbs.

Pick Up Schedule

Please have your trash at the curbside no later than 7:00am. We observe the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. When an observed holiday falls within the week, all collection following the holiday will be delayed to the next day. For your collection day see map

Special Pick Ups

Large Items are handled through Customer Service. Please call us at least one day prior to your pickup day to arrange removal of appliances, bulky items, furniture and carpet in 4 foot lengths tied and bundled.

Missed Pick Ups

If you feel your stop was missed, please contact Customer Service. If it was an error on our part, we will schedule pickup no later than the following service day.

Recycling Procedures

Richfield Management appreciates your concern for the preservation of the environment. In response, we have developed a curbside recycling program to reduce the amount of materials that enter landfills. Recyclables include:

Cardboard – flattened no larger than 2’ x 2’ cut and tied
Magazines, catalogs, newspapers, paper bags, telephone books
Plastic jugs and bottles marked with a #1 - #7
Metal – cans, pie tins, metal lids, aluminum trays, metal clothes hangers, and other small metal items are accepted
Glass bottles and jars are accepted

Rewards for Recycling Program

Restrictions

The following items are not allowed in our vehicles. Please be sure they are not included in your weekly trash:

Liquid paint, pesticides, gasoline, oil
Gas cans, LP tanks
Cement, rocks, bricks
Tires*
Carbonated Beverage Containers
Syringes, infectious hospital waste
Liquid solvents & glue
Yard waste mixed with Trash
Car batteries, automotive parts

*Scrap tires - one time per year, a container will be placed at a specific location for disposal of passenger tires (no wheels). Location and date to be announced by the township (min. fee may apply)

Yard Waste Procedures

Michigan law requires that yard waste be disposed of at approved compost facilities rather than in landfills. Yard waste includes grass clippings, leaves, garden debris, and small branches/shrubbery less than 4’ in length and 2” in diameter (must be bundled and tied). Less than 50 lbs per bundle. Yard waste will be accepted in brown paper lawn and garden bags or loose in trash cans up to 30 gallon clearly marked with a large “X” and less than 50 lbs per container/bag.

We do not accept the following:

Straw or Hay
Apples
Logs, tree stumps
Dirt, rocks, sod
Compost in plastic bags

Compost Season begins the first full week in April (April 3rd) and runs through the last full week in November.

Free Dumping Privileges

Township residents can dump from their personal vehicles one time per month, not to exceed 2.5 yards (full size pickup bed), for free at Richfield Landfill on Mt. Morris Rd.

Dumpster Rentals

Richfield Management has a wide variety of dumpster sizes for commercial use, industrial or for your larger residential clean-ups or construction needs. Please call Customer Service for details.