Yard Waste Tips

Elevate your green game with our Yard Waste Tips! Discover easy, eco-friendly practices to turn your yard waste into a resource. From savvy composting to smart reuse ideas, we've got the tips to make your outdoor space thrive sustainably.

Acceptable and not acceptable items vary by location.  Please contact your local office for details.
Yard Waste mixed with trash is not recyclable

Contaminated Yard Waste

When yard waste arrives to the landfill it is separated from everything else, then stockpiled to be ground and shredded. When yard waste becomes contaminated it is mixed with unacceptable items such as, feed bags, nursery pots, cardboard, paper, and other miscellaneous household trash.

When these items are mixed with the yard waste; it now becomes trash and has to be pulled from the yard waste area to be buried at the landfill.

Scott Waste Yard Waste

Acceptable Yard Waste

Grass
Leaves
Prunings
Branches
Did you not find your item? Please check our recycling guide.
Yard Wast Tips

Yard Waste

This service is for the removal of yard debris: leaves, branches, grass clippings and prunings.

  • No Plastic Bags
  • No dirt, sod or rocks
  • Limbs cannot exceed 2 ft. in length & 3 inches in diameter
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Start Recycling

Scott Waste is proud to serve residential facilities and homeowners as their dedicated recycling partner throughout the USA. These are some of the products we recycle:

- Empty Nursery Pots
- Feed Bags with no wax lined
- Cardboard and paper

More Info Needed?

These are some of our ways where you can get more information.

  • Curbside Recycle Flyer
    We have information regarding acceptable and unacceptable materials for both yard waste and recycle. Contact our office at (530) 528-8500
    or (800) 433-6924.
  • Download our app
    WasteConnect from the Google Play or Apple Store. Use the app to search how to properly dispose of materials.
  • Website- No smartphone - No worries!
    Get your personalized collection schedule and more online www.scottwaste.com/