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A fleet of 17 sanitation vehicles picks up approximately thirty-seven thousand five hundred (37,500) tons of garbage and refuse from two sections of the city.
Special provisions exist that provide owners or tenants of buildings used exclusively for dwelling purposes to have additional service of garbage removal from a point within their premises at a nominal service charge.
Rubbish, those items not considered household garbage, for example, household furnishings, yard waste, etc. are collected once per week in each of the different sections of the city.
In 1992 the City of Mount Vernon instituted a recycling program thatcurrently ranks #5 in the county in recycling tonnage. Approximately forty-five hundred (4,500) tons of recyclable material is collected and processed in the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), the cornerstone for recycling efforts for most municipalities in Westchester. |
