Paducah's Spring Clean Up Day coming May 3rd

This year, Paducah's Spring Clean Up Day is a bit later on the calendar.

The city has set the event for Saturday, May 3. It provides the opportunity to dispose of garbage and household hazardous waste. The free service will be offered, rain or shine, between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Republic Services transfer station, 829 Burnett Street. 

Paducah and McCracken County residents must bring proper identification, such as a driver's license to verify residency. Those who are in line by 2 p.m. will be allowed to participate. 

For the safety of all, residents are asked to remain in their vehicles, as staff unload the items. 

Spring Clean Up Day takes place at Republic Services and the adjacent parking lot of the Paducah Public Works facility on North 10th Street. To maintain traffic flow, drivers must enter from North 10th Street, off Park Avenue. Traffic will turn right on to Burnett Street to go through the drop-off line. Traffic will not be allowed to enter from North 8th or 9th Streets.

Accepted items include household garbage, major appliances (tagged freon-free), tires, with a limit of eight. Tires on the rim will be accepted; however, no heavy equipment, solid, rubber track, or foam-filled tires are allowed, household hazardous waste (labelled and in its original container), ammunition, expired or no longer needed prescription medications, batteries, and e-scrap. 

Household hazardous waste items, e-scrap and batteries, ammunition, and prescriptions will be off-loaded last in line. Please separate items to make the trip quicker. 

No medical waste, commercial waste, or radioactive items are allowed.  

Paducah Power System is teaming up with Clean Earth, Inc. for the safe disposal of mercury-filled items and unbroken bulbs. Many types of bulbs contain a small amount of mercury and are not recommended for residential garbage collection. Each family turning in unbroken bulbs will receive one new LED bulb. 

Recyclables, such as paper, plastic, and steel and aluminum cans, should be taken to the Green for Life recycling drop-off location at 400 State Street. 

Annually, approximately 700 vehicles go through the line to dispose of more than 200 tons of household trash, white goods, and scrap metal. That tonnage is beside all the tires, hazardous materials, prescriptions, and ammunition collected. 

Spring Clean Up Day is funded in part through a Household Hazardous Waste Grant through the Kentucky Division of Waste Management. Partners include City of Paducah, Clean Earth, Inc., Liberty Tire, McCracken County, McCracken County Office of Emergency Management, McCracken County Sheriff’s Department, Paducah Police Department, Paducah Power System, and Republic Services. 

To learn more, phone the Paducah Public Works Department at 270-444-8511.