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San Antonio offers a free landfill day today until 1 p.m.
Marcus Lee with Solid Waste Management listed the eligible items: “It is really for bulky items. Things like appliances, furniture, mattresses, carpet, water heaters. We do take tires. There's a limit of six.”
But Lee said they won’t take everything: “We would not be taking brush items or construction material, like roofing material or sheet rock lumber, commercial industrial waste.”
People must bring a latest CPS bill. If it has an ‘environmental fee’ on it, the landfill lets them in for free.
Learn more at SARecycles.org.
Locations:
- Republic Services Landfill, 7000 I-10 East
- Waste Management Landfill, 8611 Covel Road
- Texas Disposal Systems,11601 Starcrest Drive
Lee offered additional advice for customers: “I'm assuming most people would be bringing their items in [pickup] trucks. We would need that covered with a tarp. That is a city ordinance. So we want to make sure people know to do that.”
He added: “It is highly, highly encouraged to wear a safety vest. Certainly safe shoes, no open-toed shoes, sandals, anything like that. Hard hat, if you have it goggles, if you have it. It is a landfill, and we want everyone to be as safe as they possibly can be.”
