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DeKalb County trash pickup schedule changes for holidays

DeKalb County sanitation worker Larry Wyatt tosses trash into the truck May 10, 2012. BRANT SANDERLIN / AJC.COM
DeKalb County sanitation worker Larry Wyatt tosses trash into the truck May 10, 2012. BRANT SANDERLIN / AJC.COM
By Mark Niesse
Dec 23, 2016

All those boxes, wrapping paper and trash left over from the holidays will to wait a day to be collected in DeKalb County.

Trash pickups throughout DeKalb will be delayed one day both next week and the week after.

The county announced that because it observes Christmas Day on Monday this year, collection of garbage, recyclable material and yard trimming will be delayed a day.

The same schedule will apply the following week, when New Year’s Day is observed Jan. 2. Collection services will run one day late through Friday, Jan. 6.

For more information, contact the DeKalb Sanitation Division's customer service team at 404-294-2900 or sanitation@dekalbcountyga.gov.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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