Do you live in a single family dwelling and have a City of Hemet automated trash container?  If you do, then mark your calendar for the Bulky item Pick-Up Week!  That's when you can put your extra trash, furniture, washers and dryers, water heaters and other appliances out for pickup.  The limit is six large items.  It all needs to be at the curb by 6 a.m. on your trash day.

Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners require a $31.75 removal fee that must be paid for in advance.  All other items and appliances will be removed for free.  Hazardous materials are NOT included.

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All appliances are accepted.  Materials made up of mostly metal qualify as scrap metal.  Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners require a $31.75 removal fee that must be paid for in advance. 

Household chemicals, motor oil, oil filters and related materials should NEVER be thrown away with household trash.  When they are, they eventually work their way into on of our most precious and limited resources... our fresh water supplies.  Did you know that 95% of our drinking water is from underground sources?  Cleaning these poisons from our water is both extremely expensive and time consuming.  Think of it this way:  all the time and money spent on purifying our water is time and money that can't be spent elsewhere...  whether that is in replacing old, undersized water delivery systems, constructing new water delivery systems to serve our growing needs, or even reducing the cost of providing safe water supplies...  you get the idea.

To find out what qualifies as Household Hazardous Waste and how to properly dispose of those items please click here!