Berea, OH

Three leaf routes, each collected in two set weeks between October 26 and the week of November 30. Find your route on the city's leaf map; have leaves out by the first day of your week.

• One pass of each street per collection week. If the leaf wagon reaches your area early, it still comes back during your scheduled week.
• Pile leaves along the curb or roadside, no more than 5 feet from the road, never in the street or ditches.
• Sort out branches, limbs, metal, rocks and firewood.
• No piles on dead ends or other places the truck cannot reach, and none around fire hydrants.
• Bagged leaves or leaves in a container can go out with trash on your regular day instead.

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Weekly, Monday through Friday by area (the city's rubbish route map shows your day). Carts out before 7 a.m. on pickup day, not before 4:30 p.m. the day before, and back in by 10 a.m. the next day.

Every week on your route's day

• Trash bagged, in the dark green cart. Recycling loose, not bagged, in the light green cart.
• Lid opening toward the street, handle toward the house, carts about three feet apart and back from the curb.
• When a holiday falls on or before your day that week, pickup is one day later (a Friday pickup moves to Saturday).
• 2026 per Kimble: New Year's Day (Thu, Jan 1) and Thanksgiving (Thu, Nov 26) push Thursday and Friday routes back a day; Memorial Day (May 25) and Labor Day (Sep 7) push the whole week back a day; Christmas (Fri, Dec 25) pushes Friday to Saturday.
• Not taken: contractor debris, large car parts, tires, batteries, oils and flammable liquids.

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Bulk items go to the curb on your regular collection day each week.

With trash, on your day

• Mattresses and upholstered items must be wrapped and sealed in plastic.

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Grass, leaves and yard waste go out with trash in the Kimble trash cart, your own containers, or brown paper yard waste bags.

With trash, on your day

• Bags and cans 40 pounds or less.
• Branches cut to 4 feet or less and bundled with string, set beside the bags and cans.
• Never in the recycling cart. In spring, leaves must be bagged.

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For large brush piles. Call the Service Garage (440-826-5853) to get on the list; crews go out about once a week when workers are available, with no set schedule.

• Large branches 4 feet or longer, cut ends facing the direction of traffic.
• No vines, root balls or ivy. Do not tie with string or rope.
• Small sticks and twigs go in your trash cart.

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Berea Service Garage, 400 Barrett Road, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Residents only, with proof of residency; not open to businesses.

Nothing more scheduled this year

• Household hazardous waste, tires, fluorescent bulbs and old electronics.
• Latex paint is not hazardous: dry it out with kitty litter and put the open can in the trash.

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Berea Service Garage, 400 Barrett Road, 9 a.m. to noon. Residents only, with proof of residency.

Nothing more scheduled this year

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Year-round options the city lists.

• Mixed paper (mail, magazines, newspapers, shredded paper): green and yellow Paper Retriever bins at Berea-Midpark High School, Grindstone Elementary, Roehm Athletic Center, St. Mary's Church and School, and St. Paul Lutheran Church.
• Clothing and housewares: Simple Recycling curbside pickup; call 216-438-7109 for bags.
• Tires are not picked up with rubbish or by the city: use a tire retailer.
• Electronics are not curbside recycling: use an e-waste company or a store drop-off such as Best Buy or Staples.

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