City of Shelbyville residents can begin preparing for the annual “Spring Clean Up.”

The City of Shelbyville Street Department is reminding residents that its annual “heavy trash” pick up is the week of April 26 on your regular trash collection day.

There will no recycling collection that week. Recyclables will resume normal collection schedule on May 3.

The street department will pick up large items such as furniture, household trash, appliances (without Freon), wood, metal and more.

Anything with live bed bugs will not be collected.

Items with Freon such as refrigerators or air conditioners must be tagged as having had the Freon and the compressor removed before collection.

Also not being collected are tires or remodeling debris such as roofing shingles and concrete.

Television or computers are not collected via truck service but those items can be dropped off at the street department, 605 Hale Road, at no charge throughout the year if you are a city resident.

Due to time constraints, the street department asks residents to keep heavy trash clean up to a reasonable limit. There are 6,700 stops per week so street department staff will spend no longer than 10 minutes at a residence.

The guideline for collection includes no more than a regular size truck load amount or no more than approximately an 8X6 section not being more than four feet tall.

If a stop load size is in question, a supervisor for the street department will make the final decision on how much is collected. Any items left will be the responsibility of the property owner.

Items to be collected must be piled and separated by material type such as wood, metal, general trash and furniture. Different trucks will collect different items.

Trash should be ready for collection by 7 a.m. on pick up day.

For questions, contact a street department representative at 317-392-5169.