Holiday Garbage and Recycling Schedule
Because of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the City of Galena's garbage and recycling schedule has been adjusted.
Garbage and recycling will be moved ahead one day both of those weeks. The usual Tuesday and Wednesday pickup will be Monday and Tuesday instead:
- Monday, Dec. 23-Tuesday, Dec. 24 - Curbside recycling Route B
- Monday, Dec. 30-Tuesday, Dec. 31 - Curbside recycling Route A
Glass Recycling: More Than a Half Million Pounds Since 2020
GALENA—Since January 2020, when the City of Galena instituted its glass recycling program, more than 688,180 pounds of glass have been collected in the purple glass recycling dumpster in the parking lot of Tammy’s Piggly Wiggly. Since glass is not accepted in the city’s curbside recycling program, the city partners...
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