{"id":14501,"date":"2024-04-05T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14501"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:06:27","slug":"decatur-yard-waste-collection-begins-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/decatur-yard-waste-collection-begins-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur yard waste collection begins Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Decatur&#8217;s spring collection of heavy trash ends, the city&#8217;s yard waste pickup will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert has announced that the city will begin collecting yard waste on Monday, April 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/5FC171B1215A436EB697CDDB20DE61C0.jpg?resize=307%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/5FC171B1215A436EB697CDDB20DE61C0.jpg?w=307&amp;ssl=1 307w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/5FC171B1215A436EB697CDDB20DE61C0.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The weekly pickups will continue until October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yard waste is collected weekly, on the same schedule as the weekly garbage\/trash collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents also may take their yard waste to the city compost site located behind Riverside Center. The site is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you have to drag it to the curb, then we probably can&#8217;t take it,\u201d Gilbert has said of the city effort. In other words, if the resident can&#8217;t lift a stuffed container, then city employees won&#8217;t be able to lift it either. So it likely won&#8217;t be taken away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Decatur&#8217;s spring collection of heavy trash ends, the city&#8217;s yard waste pickup will begin. Operations Manager Jeremy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-14501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}