The vote to name Madison’s and Wisconsin’s first electric collection vehicles ended on October 21 and we have the results.Voters selected Trash Gordon and Vin No Diesel. Welcome to the fleet!How the Voting WorkedThis election was a ranked…
The Streets and Urban Forestry Division unveiled a new website today, October 30, 2024.The redesigned site has three important new features for Madison residents.Street Tree InventoryOn the Urban Forestry section, you can find an inventory of the…
This is the final week to drop off food scraps for composting at the three neighborhood farmers’ markets. The markets are on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 and Saturday, November 2, 2024. We set a goal of composting 22,000 pounds this year,…
Urban Forestry’s fall planting season began on Monday, October 21, 2024.Our crews will be planting 855 trees from 25 different species along City of Madison streets this fall.The variety of species was selected by the City’s trained arborists to…
The public vote to choose the names for Madison’s and Wisconsin’s first electric trash collection vehicles is about to be unplugged.Make your choice for the names on the Wisconsin Clean Cities website (https://wicleancities.org). The vote ends…
Over the last two weeks, 792 unique names for Wisconsin’s first fully electric collection vehicles were submitted to the Streets Division. There were many great names submitted and a group of finalists were selected.Now it’s time for you, the…
The City of Madison set an ambitious goal to compost 22,000 thousand pounds of food scraps at our farmers’ market drop-off sites this year. This is roughly the weight of two adult mammoths.We are thrilled to announce that not only have we…
The fall yard waste and leaves collection begins the week of October 6, 2024.All residents will receive three guaranteed collection opportunities. Not every neighborhood in Madison has the same set out dates. It will be different…
The City of Madison recently unveiled the first two fully electric trash collection vehicles in all of Wisconsin. Naturally, we must provide these two trucks with names.The opportunity to submit names closes at 4:00pm on Tuesday,…
The Streets Division’s fall yard waste and leaves collection begins the week of October 6, 2024.All residents will receive three collection opportunities this fall, weather permitting.The exact dates when you should set out your leaves and yard…
The Urban Forestry section of the Streets Division has completed this year’s round of treatment of public ash trees against the invasive emerald ash borer.Public ash trees are treated once every three years.In total, the City of Madison has 10,544…
The Streets Division will not perform trash, recycling, brush, or large item collection on Monday, September 2, 2024 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. The drop-off sites will also be closed.Trash & Recycling CollectionIf your trash and…
Update 8/15, 5:05pm: The Streets Division drop-off site at 4602 Sycamore Avenue will re-open for normal operating hours on Friday, August 16, 2024. For details regarding the Madison Fire Department response to the gas leak in the 4400…
Our three free food scraps drop-off sites at farmer’s market locations around Madison have passed 10,000 pounds collected for composting this year.This is great news and puts us ahead of last year’s pace.In 2023, we composted a little more than 18,…
Last week, the Streets Division published information about our operations for the student move out area that will be in place from today, August 5, 2024, until August 23, 2024.
