Curbside Service
Yard materials included
Yard materials not included
Using Your Yard Materials - Make Compost at Home
Curbside Service
Single-family residents with curbside recycling service have collection for yard trimmings. This service is included with other household collection services and does not have a separate fee.
Use of a yard trimmings cart, supplied by Specialty, is required for participation in this program.
The yard material collected at curbside is made into finished compost that is then available for residents to pick up from the SMaRT Station.
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Yard Materials Included
Yard trimmings that are to be included in the yard trimmings cart consist of grass, leaves, branches, and other lawn, yard and garden trimmings.
When the yard trimmings cart is full, or nearly full, place it curbside by 7 a.m. on your pick-up day.
If you have more yard trimmings than will fit the cart with the lid closed, put them in a customer-supplied 32-gallon can clearly marked “Yard Waste.” Place the can close to the yard trimmings cart. Branches may be set out in bundles less than four (4) feet long and one (1) foot wide.
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Compost it - Instead
Turning your yard trimmings into compost at home makes good sense! It saves the cost of collecting, transporting, processing and distributing the product. And, you can use it to enrich your soil. It saves water too! Have a gardener or yard service? You can work with them too - we'll show you how!
Click here for information on home composting of yard trimmings, or call the Sunnyvale Recycling Program at (408) 730-7262.
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Unacceptable Yard Trimmings Materials
Yard trimmings carts and cans containing these materials will not be emptied:
fruits or vegetables, iceplant, cactus, yucca, palm fronds, poison oak, poison ivy, bamboo, or ivy
Also to be excluded from the yard cart are:
yard trimmings in plastic bags, painted trees, rocks or gravel concrete, asphalt, bricks, dirt, sod, or trash or food waste
plastic building or demolition materials, such as wood, metal or sheetrock, stumps or branches larger than 6” in diameter and 4’ long, painted or pressure treated wood
Dispose of these items as garbage,or see, "How Do I Recycle ...?" For additional information, call the Sunnyvale Solid Waste Division at (408) 730-7508.
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