Yard Debris Collection
 Composting your
Yard Debris helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil quality,
reduce the need for chemicals and fertilizers and save water.
Waste Management now offers Yard Debris subscription service in designated areas
of Douglas County.
Yard Debris will be picked up every other week year-round!
To find out if you are able to subscribe to service please call 877-466-4668.
Every Other Week
Recycling Collection Schedules
Collection rates
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 (55 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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Yard Trimmings Discouraged in Garbage
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Yard trimmings are prohibited from garbage containers. Yard trimmings create
extra landfill expense, but can provide nutritious compost and mulch if
composted.
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".
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