Spring cleanup day and prescription drug collection for 2016 coming this weekend

The annual collection for home appliances, brush and tree limbs, car and truck batteries and tires, metal and car parts, and bulky items such as furniture is hosted by the City of North Liberty on the last Saturday of April. In 2016, the collection day will be held on April 30 from 7 to 11 a.m. The collection is for residents of North Liberty only, who pay $.30 each month on their recycling bill for this service.
Miscellaneous large items should be brought to the Public Works Facility, 620 Calvin Street. (Go south on Front Street to Golf View Drive. Turn right and go to Calvin Street. Turn right to Public Works facility.) Assistance will be provided to the elderly or handicapped. Please call City Hall at 626-5700 to make arrangements.
Additionally, the North Liberty Police Department will collect expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs on from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the North Liberty Police Department headquarters, 5 E Cherry Street, for safe disposal. This service is free and anonymous. Tablets, capsules and all other solid doses will be collected. Liquid medications in their original containers will be accepted as well.
Unused, unwanted and expired medications can pose public safety and health concerns. Left in home medicine cabinets, the medications are susceptible to dangerous misuse and abuse. Improper disposal, such as flushing drugs down a toilet or sending them to the landfill, poses risks to the environment and public health.