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Residential Yard Trimmings Recycling

 

Yard Trimmings Recycling Collection 

 ONCE A WEEK - YEAR ROUND.  Yard trimmings are collected on the same day as your recycling is collected.  Pick up will be from the trash/recycling collection point at the end of residential driveways starting at 7:00 am on recycling collection day.  

Yard Trimmings Recycling Preparation

 

  • Place loose in trash can (no lid) or in kraft yard bags.  NO PLASTIC BAGS.
  • Please do not put anything in with the yard trimmings that is not compostable, including plastic.
  • Bundle brush and tree trimmings (less than 5 ft long).  Tie with cotton or jute string.  NO WIRE, NYLON OR PLASTIC TIES.
  • Bundles or containers of yard trimmings must weigh less than 50 pounds.
  • Waste Management will pick up a maximum of one cubic yard of yard trimmings per residence.
  • Tree trimming branches must be less than 6" diameter.

 

 

Yard trimmings, including grass clippings, leaves, and tree/brush trimmings are collected separately at your residential regular trash/recycling collection point. Yard trimmings will be taken to a compost facility where they are a valuable resource for making compost and mulch, instead of wasted, taking up space in a landfill.

Yard trimmings make up an estimated 12% of the total residential waste stream in Coppell.  In an effort to increase diversion of waste from the landfill by recycling, the City of Coppell provides yard trimmings recycling through Waste Management, the authorized solid waste contractor.

  

 

YES!  ACCEPTABLE MATERIALS

NO!  NOT ACCEPTABLE MATERIALS
  • leaves
  • grass
  • brush
  • tree trimmings (cut 5 ft. length bundles)
  • bedding/vegetable plants
  • limbs less than 6" diameter
  • Holiday Trees - no bags, decorations, tinsel or flocking
  • dirt/soil
  • common poisonous plants
  • tree trunks 6" diameter and larger
  • rocks/concrete
  • plastic, metal or trash mixed with yard trimmings
  • boards/fence materials

Reduce amount set out for yard trimmings recycling through backyard programs: GrassCycling, Leaf Management and Composting.

 

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