Ketchikan’s Spring Clean-Up set for April 21-28

The City of Ketchikan’s annual Spring Clean-Up week has been set for April 21^st through April 28^th.

During that week, the city will provide residential curbside pickup in city limits of larger quantities than usually picked up. That is limited to the equivalent of one 10-cubic-yard truck per family, according to a memo from Solid Waste Superintendent Lenny Neeley.

Also during Clean-Up Week, city and borough staff members work together to coordinate special trash-collection efforts throughout the community. Neeley writes that the U.S. Coast Guard group, for example, picked up nearly 4 tons or trash last year. School groups also have participated in past years.

Neeley reports that the overall 2017 Spring Clean-Up led to 588 tons of trash collected and brought to the landfill. That exceeded previous years. In 2016, Neeley reports that the landfill weighed about 416 tons during clean-up week; and in 2015, it was about 440 tons.

The city’s annual Spring Clean-Up Week generally coincides with Earth Day, which this year is April 22^nd.