Citywide Cleanup

Saturday, May 7, 2022 | 8:00 am – 12:00 noon

The Citywide Clean-up is a litter pick-up event hosted by the City of Tallapoosa. We encourage residents to plant trees, shrubs, and flowers to beautify our communities while others can join us in picking up roadside litter to clean our city streets. The Keep Haralson Beautiful and Keep Carroll Beautiful organizations will provide volunteers with tools like gloves, bags, and litter grabbers for volunteers to use during the event. Mayor Brett Jones and the City of Tallapoosa council members are leading by example. “Our goal is to raise the quality of life throughout the city by leading by example,” said Mayor Jones. Anyone interested in volunteering for the cleanup can sign up below.

Two Ways to Participate

Volunteer (8 am to 12:00 noon): Volunteer as an individual or group to pick up litter and remove weeds on the roadside, parks, and public areas. Trash bags, pickers, gloves, and vests are provided to volunteers.

Clean Your Home/Yard (all day): Community pride starts at home: clean out the garage, organize the home, spruce up the yard, paint the fence, clean the gutters, help your elderly or disabled neighbor… the sky’s the limit. Trash pickup will be on your regular pick-up day.

PARTICIPATE

If you are interested in participating in the Citywide Cleanup by volunteering or becoming a sponsor, download the form below. Thank you for your participation!

Become a Sponsor

Volunteer

Free Day at the Landfill

222 Landfill Road

The Tallapoosa Clean Up event is in conjunction with the countywide free day at the landfill scheduled on the same day. Keep Haralson Beautiful and Haralson County Government have partnered to allow residents of the county the opportunity for free dumping at the C&D Landfill at 222 Landfill Road.
See Keep Haralson Beautiful’s website for more information – www.keepharalsonbeautiful.org

Courtesy Curbside Pickup: In addition, the City of Tallapoosa will schedule a curbside pickup for residents that are physically unable or may not have the means to transport items to the landfill. Appointments will be on a limited first-come, first-served basis. Scheduling will not begin until April 25th. No phone calls, please. Appointments will be on a limited first-come, fist-served basis.

Note: Brush and Limb pickup will be as normal with scheduling on Thursdays each week with limbs no longer than 4 feet and separated from the brush; call City Hall to be placed on the pickup list.

Schedule pickup for landfill dropoff

Scrap Metal and Household Battery Recycling

Do you have scrap metal you have been meaning to dispose of? Don’t know how or where to dispose of it? Bring them to either the landfill on the 7th or one of the convenience centers that day. See Keep Haralson Beautiful’s website for more info at www.keepharalsonbeautiful.org.
Can’t make the event? No problem. Call our office to schedule a pickup.

In addition, containers will be available for household batteries and metal drop-offs at city hall on May 7th.

Medication Collection

Safely dispose of unused and expired medication for FREE! The Tallapoosa Police Department maintains a secure medication collection bin in from of their building on East Alabama Street. Medications are collected and properly disposed of in compliance with federal law. Medicines DO NOT have to be removed from their containers and labels DO NOT have to be removed.

Unaccepted Items: Needles, sharps, EpiPen, durable medical equipment (CPAP, nebulizers, etc.), illegal drugs, aerosol cans, bio-hazardous materials (anything containing body fluid or blood), mercury thermometers, personal care products (shampoo, soaps, lotions, sunscreens, etc.), household hazardous waste (paint, pesticides, oil, gas, etc.)