Ensure Your Yard Waste Gets Picked Up

Yard waste on right-of-way

Help ensure your yard waste gets collected by following these simple guidelines.

Yard waste includes only grass clippings, leaves, branches and twigs.

Proper placement for collection

Place it on the curb prior to 6 a.m. on your pick up date.
Bag it, don't blow it! Yard waste blown into the street or piled up on curbs or storm drains can cause major flooding and pollute our local waters.
Bag or bundle your yard waste for the city to collect and properly dispose of it. Up to 4 cubic yards is collected each week.

Think 4

4 cubic yards collected each week. This is equivalent to what can fit in the bed of a standard pick-up truck.
Branches no more than 4 inches in diameter, 4 feet in length, and in 40lbs tied bundles.
Bagged yard waste up to 40lbs each.

For anything larger, please contact Solid Waste to schedule an additional pickup fee.

Things to avoid

Yard waste does not include dirt, rock, gravel, landscape ties, fences, or landscape pressure treated woods.
Contractor/landscapers waste
Large branches must not exceed four feet in length.
Yard waste may not be placed inside the garbage or recycling cart. If yard waste is placed in the garbage cart, the cart will not be dumped until the yard waste is removed.

Learn more about proper yard waste disposal guidelines at orlando.gov/yardwaste.

Examples of curb placement

Incorrect Examples

An incorrect example of yard waste curb placement. Yard waste is placed loose on the ground and exceeds the limit of 4 cubic yards per week that can be collected.

The materials should not exceed the limit of 4 cubic yards per week that can be collected (equivalent to what fits in the bed of a standard pick-up truck), but also should not be placed loose in the ground (street or curbside), under utility lines, next to mailboxes, utility poles, fire hydrants, water meters or on top of or in front of storm drains.

An incorrect example of yard waste curb placement showing yard waste placed inside a trash bin.

Yard waste may not be placed inside the garbage or recycling cart.

If yard waste is placed in the garbage cart, the cart will not be dumped until the yard waste is removed.

Correct Example

A correct example of yard waste curb placement. Yard waste is tied in tied in bundles and bagged.

Yard waste should be tied in bundles or bagged.

Earth friendly tips

Don't bag clippings. Grass clippings replenish water and nutrients back into the lawn.
Leaves make up 3/4 of the nutrients used by trees annually. Leaving them on the lawn returns nutrients back into the soil.

Learn more tips to protect our waterways