Junk removal costs in Youngstown

Trash pickup in Youngstown is a city job. The Public Works Department runs residential garbage collection, with City-issued 96-gallon carts and trucks whose mechanical arms lift and empty them, a setup that started in summer 2016.

That arm shapes how a cleanout goes out. Put furniture and heavy appliances beside your cart, not in it, but keep the cart 5 feet from heavy trash, brush piles, cars and mailboxes so the arm has room. Your trash can go to the curb no more than 12 hours before pickup, and the cart has to come back in within 24 hours after.

Some things never go in the cart: construction, remodeling or demolition trash, auto parts, tires, batteries, and hot coals or ash. Bag everything else, because loose trash blows down the street when the truck dumps it.

The city also caps a single pile. Under Section 979.05 of its codified ordinances, a set-out of more than 20 cubic yards counts as excessive, and the Sanitation Supervisor decides what crosses that line. The city can clear an excessive pile without posting notice, make the cost the owner's, and put it on the property tax list as a lien.

The section names an eviction and a home or garage cleanout as cases it covers. It also counts a pile that's only waiting for a public or private hauler to take it away.