Las Cruces gives every residential customer free grappler service once a month on their regular collection day for bulky items too large for the cart. Each pickup handles about four cubic yards, roughly two half-ton pickup loads. Set piles out and the grappler claw removes them.
Bulky junk, from furniture to appliances to yard debris, is handled through the City's grappler service, not the weekly cart. Residential grappler runs once a month on your regular service day. Place bulk items in adjacent curbside piles; the grappler claw truck picks up an amount equal to two level half-ton pickup truckloads, about four cubic yards, per service. A separate green grappler handles green waste and tree trimmings. Items too large for the brown cart, including tree limbs over two feet, should be staged for grappler day rather than crammed into or piled around the container, which blocks the automated arm. Anything beyond the grappler limit, plus household hazardous waste, goes to the SCSWA facility on West Amador Avenue.
Piling bulk items around the weekly cart blocks the automated truck and gets the cart skipped. Dumping furniture, appliances, or debris on lots or rights-of-way instead of using grappler is an illegal-dumping nuisance carrying fines up to $500.
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