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GO GREEN! Green Waste Recycling

Residential customers will receive a new GREEN 96-gallon green-waste cart or a smaller size for residents with space or storage constraints. Please note that up to two additional green yard-waste carts are available at no additional cost. Residents with carts beyond three may request additional green-waste carts for a nominal fee. Residents may also place out unlimited tied bundles at no additional cost.

Use your green collection cart to separate landscape waste and other organic materials for collection each week on your scheduled EDCO service day and set out by 7 a.m.

Please do not place any of the following materials in your designated green waste recycling container:

• No plastic bags.
• No kitchen scraps, fruit, trash or hazardous waste.
• No animal waste.
• No dirt, rocks, asphalt, concrete, sand, etc.
• No treated or lead-based painted wood or lumber.

Click here for A Gardener’s Guide to Recycling Green Waste. Also available in Spanish. (PDF)

What Happens to Green Waste?
Recycled green waste is primarily used for ADC (Alternative Daily Cover) at landfills and can also be used to produce compost. The City receives diversion credit for both ADC and composting.

Backyard Composting & Grasscycling…Natures Way to Recycle
EDCO promotes recycling…Naturally! And what could be more natural than to recycle yard waste in a backyard composting bin or reduce waste by “grasscycling” lawn trimmings?

Composting is the natural decomposition of organic material into a soil product. Homeowners who compost their own yard waste (hedge trimmings, flowers, grass, leaves, etc.) and certain kitchen scraps such as fruits, vegetables, coffee grounds and egg shells, can produce their own soil amendment or mulch for use in their yard or garden. Compost-amended soil provides a more nurturing medium for plants therefore creating healthier landscaping that will be more resistant to disease and infestation.

Grasscycling is simply the practice of leaving grass clippings on the lawn after mowing. Grass clippings decompose quickly and return valuable nutrients, such as nitrogen, back into the soil. For best results, follow these simple guidelines:

• Mow your lawn when the grass is dry.
• Keep the blade of your lawn mower sharp.
• Follow the “1/3 Rule:” cut your lawn frequently enough so that not more than 1/3 of the grass blade length is trimmed each time you mow.

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FREE Brush Clearing Event

In order to keep our community safe and clean, we must all do our part in keeping our properties free from excess vegetation growth.

In order to participate in this special event, please plan ahead and have your excess green waste cleared and ready for collection prior to your designated special-event collection day (located below).

• You must place your excess green waste in your designated green-waste cart(s).
• You may use your additional old standard-size waste cans (for this special event only).
• Tied bundles will also be collected. No loose material will be collected.
• Please place your green waste at the curb for collection on your designated day (located below), no later than 7 a.m.
• This event is for bulk/excess green waste only.
• No rocks, trash or other bulky items will be picked up that day.
• Greens will be collected curbside only. There will be no backyard or side yard collection.

This free event is in addition to your regularly scheduled weekly green-waste collection. Please refer to the following dates to see when your ONE designated brush clearing event date will be: