Annual County Wide Clean-Up Starts Today

TYLER — Citizens can now pick up their vouchers for the annual Smith County Wide Clean-up Event. The County Clean-up event is an opportunity for residents of Smith County to bring trash and bulky items to the Greenwood Farms Landfill for free. The Smith County Environmental Crimes Unit, Precinct Constables, and Smith County Commissioners Court are working together to host the event February 13-25. The County will provide vouchers to the public that are good for up to three cubic yards per person, about a full-sized truck bed. Vouchers are available to pick up at all Justice of the Peace and Constable Precinct offices or in the Commissioners Court Office at the County Courthouse Annex.

There is a limit of one voucher per household, and businesses may not participate in the voucher program. The vouchers will be good Monday-Friday, 6:30am to 4:30pm, and Saturday from 6:30am to noon throughout the cleanup period. The vouchers come with a list of items that the Greenwood Farms Landfill, an Allied Waste Company, will not take. Directions and a map to the Greenwood Farms Landfill are provided with the vouchers. “Manager Zach Briscoe of Greenwood Farms provides us with services every year to make the County Wide Clean-up event possible. We could not do this without their generosity,” Smith County Environmental Crimes Officer Tommy Goodman said.

Items not accepted during the County Wide Clean-up include hazardous waste, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, gasoline, oils, paint, acid, batteries, asbestos, Freon, whole tires, refrigerators, freezers, televisions and computers. For more information or to pick up your voucher, you can call Pct. 1 Constable Henry Jackson (Tyler), 903-590-2609; Pct. 2 Constable Andy Dunklin (Noonday), 903-590-4840; Pct. 3 Constable Dustin Rust (Troup), 903-842-2664; Pct. 4 Constable John Smith (Winona), 903-590-4879; or Pct. 5 Constable Dennis Taylor (Lindale), 903-590-4901.