It’s been one month since the City of Farmington started its new collection program and Waste Management (WM) has a few reminders.

All residents should be utilizing the new 96-gallon cart distributed in June. The following changes went into effect on July 1: 

• All trash must be placed in your cart to receive service. Up to five additional bags may be set outside the trash cart for collection, but no personal trash cans.
• Each household may dispose of two bulk items per week on their designated service day.  Mattresses must be either bagged or wrapped in plastic in order to be collected.

According to WM, the following directives should be adhered to for residents refusing to comply:

1. Personal trash cans will be tagged with instruction to transition to 96-gallon cart on first offense. Trash still collected.
2. Personal trash cans will be tagged with final warning on second offense. Trash still collected.
3. Personal trash cans will be tagged with warning. Trash will not be collected on the third offense.