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Seasonal Lawn Care

How you care for your lawn affects our local waterways. Caring for your lawn in a way that prevents pollutants from going into local streams and rivers can have an impact. All Year Long- Clean up pet waste. Spring – Install a rain barrel or add a rain garden to […]

Recycle Right- Recycle Often

Recycling right can help you make a positive impact on your community. This effort reduces landfill emissions, protects local jobs and ensures the environment is healthy and clean for future generations. To help the Ottumwa/Wapello County Recycling Center Recycle Right and make a difference, follow these five tips for recycling: […]

Backyard Composting

Composting not only reduces trash, but it improves your soil, so if you enjoy growing flowers or a vegetable garden composting is an excellent way to build up your soil. If you would like to try it, but are interested in more information on how to do it, check out […]

Keep Contamination in Check

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Please Take Our Short Survey

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Clean Your Washer With Natural Ingredients, & Avoid Toxic Ones.

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TVs Contain Toxic Materials. Please Consider This when Disposing of Them.

TV sets and computer monitors are safe when they’re viewed under normal conditions in homes and offices. But when owners discard or dismantle them, the highly toxic materials inside become a serious hazard to your health by breathing or otherwise coming in contact with any of these dangerous materials: […]

DIY Natural Leather Conditioner

If you have leather shoes, purses, etc., and you want to take care of them, but prefer to make your own protectant check out this website. They also have many other great DIY recipes. Check out our Facebook Page for many other ideas on less toxic homemade ideas. https://www.diynatural.com/homemade-leather-conditioner/?awt_a=5vkt&awt_l=9l89C&awt_m=3a55hJ1MlStFQkt

Yard Waste Collection

Ottumwa trash and recycling collection customers are reminded that curbside yard waste collection has started again. Southside Customers are collected on Tuesday, and Northside Customers are collected on Thursday. Call Bridge City Sanitation at 641-682-1700 to put your address on the list for collection. While doing yard cleanup, residents are […]

Landfill Hours of Operations

The Ottumwa/Wapello County Landfill is open Monday – Friday 7am – 4pm & Saturday 7am – Noon. Commercial Haulers and Contractors need to arrive at the Landfill no later than 15 minutes prior to closing time to allow Landfill employees time to comply with IDNR regulations. Residents may use the […]