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Heavy Trash

 

 

Each Indianapolis household may place a maximum of two (2) items of heavy trash out for collection each month. Heavy trash collection operates on its own schedule.

Please make note - If your home is serviced by DPW crews, heavy trash is collected on a specific day each month. If your home is serviced by a private contractor, heavy trash can be placed by the curb once a month on any of your regular trash days.

Click here to find out when your heavy trash items are collected.

 

Mattress out on heavy trash day

 

Place all items on a stable surface and secure or remove loose parts such as doors or trim. For example, remove the doors to a refrigerator or secure them with tape to prevent children or pets from being trapped inside.

Acceptable heavy trash items:
Household furnishings such as couches, desks, tables, chairs, dressers.
Appliances (without Freon-gas refrigerant) such as televisions, stoves, water heaters, water softeners.
--Appliances containing Freon require special handling--
To have a Freon unit collected, empty and disable the appliance and set it out at the curb or alley where your trash is normally picked up. Call the MAC at 327-4622 to arrange pickup. Freon units do not count as part of the monthly two heavy trash items allotment.
Disassembled bicycles and swing sets.
Automobile/truck tires mounted on their rims/wheels.
Lawnmowers must be drained of all gas and oil.

 

Items considered unacceptable for regular trash pickup are also unacceptable for heavy trash pickup. If legally unacceptable items are left for pickup, a DPW informational tag will notify you how to meet the pickup requirements in both English and Spanish.

 

Heavy Trash Truck

Marion County Drop-Off Site
Have more than two items of heavy trash to dispose of each month? Haul them to the Marion County Citizens' Drop-off Site located at 2700 S. Belmont Ave., which is open Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The cost to drop-off a safely-loaded car-load is $2.00 and $5.00 for a pickup truck load. Trailer loads are not permitted. Only acceptable regular or heavy trash items will be accepted. Items like construction materials should be reused if possible or landfilled.

Directions from I-70: Take Harding Street exit from I-70 and head south. At the intersection of Harding and Raymond, head west on Raymond. The entrance to the transfer station will be on your left and the collection point is just a bit south and west of the entrance. The drop-off station is CLOSED on those Saturdays falling closest to Christmas Day (Dec. 25) and New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

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Last Updated:  6/12/2009 6:58 AM

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