Waste Management Starts Yard Waste Collection in April

Get your trimming shears and paper bags ready, Macomb, Waste Management will start collecting yard waste this month.

Yard waste collection takes place from the beginning of April to the end of November, and is offered to all township residents.

Residents can place yard waste in 96-gallon curb carts, brown paper yard bags and 32-gallon cans that are clearly marked "Yard Waste." The marking on the carts and cans should face toward the street so Waste Management drivers can identify these as yard waste. Yard waste placed in designated paper bags need not be marked in any special way.

Waste Management asks that residents not use a plastic bag liner and refrain from picking up containers weighing more than 50 pounds.

Yard waste should be placed at the curb, at least 4 feet from other trash, where it will be picked up on regular collection days.

What is yard waste?

• Grass clippings
• Leaves
• Shrubs and brush trimmings (less than 2 inches in diameter and less than 4 feet in length)

Residents should bundle brush and branches that aer 2 inches in diameter or less in 3 to 4-foot long bundles with string. The bundles should not be larger than 18 inches around.

What is NOT yard waste?

• Sod
• Pet waste
• Dirt
• Rocks
• Trash
• Rot balls
• Branches more than 2 inches in diameter and longer than 4 feet in length)

Contact Waste Management at 1-800-796-9696 for additional information.