It is time to clean up again in Park City.

But don’t expect the Public Works Department to put a Dumpster in the neighborhoods like it has for the last 20-plus years.

The annual cleanup program has undergone a significant change that will provide opportunities for people to get rid of their unwanted goods at certain points through the spring, summer and fall rather than in a one-week stretch once a year.

The program’s Dumpsters will be available at Recycle Utah on the fourth Friday and fourth Saturday of the month from April until October. Hours are from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on the Fridays and from 9 a.m. until noon on the Saturdays. The first days will be April 27 and April 28.

“By providing this reoccurring convenience, residents won’t have to store items for a year. Instead, they can plan on the availability of a dumpster once a month throughout the summer,” Pace Erickson, who manages the operations in the Park City Public Works Department, wrote in a report to Mayor Dana Williams and the Park City Council.

The program costs City Hall approximately $8,500 annually, but Erickson said this year’s cleanup could be slightly less.

He said bad weather in May sometimes discouraged people from bringing things to the Dumpsters that were in the neighborhoods. By stretching out the program with the once-a-month days, inclement weather should not be a problem, he said.

Erickson, meanwhile, said moving the program to Recycle Utah could encourage people to recycle more of the items that they had planned to throw away. He said the Recycle Utah staffers will suggest what could be recycled. Erickson said he anticipates as much as 50 percent more of the goods will be recycled under the new system.

“I think for us, as staff, there was no way we could man every Dumpster,” Erickson said.

The items deposited in the Dumpsters are taken to the county landfill, which is one of the reasons officials hope there is more recycling this year.

Under the old program, 13 Dumpsters were placed throughout Park City with giant signs designating them as part of the annual cleanup. People would drive the goods to the locations and deposit them. The Dumpsters would sometimes overflow with furniture, carpet, trash and household items.

The program accepts anything but hazardous materials and construction waste from contractors. Yard waste is accepted in a separate bin.

Insa Riepen, the executive director of Recycle Utah, said volunteers and staffers will talk to people preparing to deposit goods in the cleanup Dumpster and find out if anything is recyclable.

“That person will look at your truck or car and say, ‘What do you have,'” she said.

For more information, contact Recycle Utah at 649-9698.