Franklin County tightening up its yard trash pickup program

Franklin County is cracking down on people using the county’s roadside yard trash program as their own garbage company.

Franklin County provides roadside pickup for certain types of yard trash, specifically leaves and small branches, but that program has been abused by some residents and businesses.

It also allows for yard trash like old patio furniture and even some household goods like rugs, furniture and appliances.

Some people hide household garbage under the yard trash; People also put larger pieces of yard trash than is allowed on the roadside.

It’s not just homeowners abusing the program, but also commercial landscape companies that are dumping huge amounts of cuttings on the roadside.

Recently the county decided it will no longer clean up household trash thrown on the side of the road.

They hope that step will keep people from throwing it there in the first place.

The county is also sending letters to every landscape company it can telling them to dispose of their own yard trash and not to leave their cuttings on the roadside.  

Some county officials and many residents feel the only way to truly address the problem is to mandate county-wide garbage pickup.

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