Yard and Food Waste Collection
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Composting your yard and food debris helps to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, improve soil quality, reduce the need for
chemicals and fertilizers and save water.
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Acceptable Yard and Food Waste:
- Food Scraps: Meats, dairy products, fruits and vegetables,
breads, eggshells and nutshells, coffee grounds, and tea bags.
- Food-soiled Paper: Pizza boxes, paper towels & napkins, paper
egg cartons, paper grocery bags with food scraps, and coffee
filters.
- Yard Debris: Grass, leaves, weeds, pine needles, plant trimmings,
and branches less than 3 inches in diameter and less than 4 feet in
length.
Collection Schedule:
Yard and Food Waste are collected every other week from subscribers.
Options for Disposing of Yard Trimmings:
 Compost in
your yard (most energy efficient choice!)
Put yard
trimmings in a yard cart to be collected at the curb
------ (Sign up
for food / yard collection.)
Take yard
trimmings to a transfer
station that accepts "clean green".
Extra Yard Trimmings
There is a charge for additional units of yard
trimmings (no food scraps) beyond the basic
service.
For yard trimmings that don't fit in your yard
cart you may use:
Paper yard bags (available at home and garden
stores), or
32-gal. cans with handles & lids (65 lb.
limit) labeled "Yard" or
Bundles tied with sisal twine (4'x2' limit)
* Yard trimmings are not accepted in plastic
bags.
Plastic bags are not compostable and cause
processing and odor problems at the composting
facility.
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