Does your local municipality collect green waste?

[XemaSab]

If so, where do you live? :shrug:

[lligrd]

1. Mine Does

Don't most of them?

[AlecBGreen]

mine too

northern virginia (Winchester). The city collects all yard waste and does leaf collection in the fall.

[XemaSab]

4. Not all

Where you live at? :shrug:

[lligrd]

6. So. California

Claremont

[SCDem]

11. I grew up in Claremont

[Tormenta]

2. Yes

I'm in South Florida. Not only is yard waste a regular weekly pickup, but it's all converted to mulch and available free to anyone who wants to fill a pickup with it.

[tularetom]

3. Yep - central California

Don't cost nothin' either. Actually it's part of our garbage collection bill.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Hey, Xema..........

Yes, my city does.......Manhattan Beach, in SoCal........

All the beach cities do, AFAIK....... :shrug:

[jwirr]

7. Yes, recyclables, hazardous waste and all. Northern Minnesota

[Bobbieo]

8. Yuma doesn't even have a recycling program -

I fought like that issue like hell when I was a City Commissioner. Think that is why I was not asked to stay on when my five years were up.

[Bobbieo]

9. I ake that back, Yuma has a once a year hazardous waste collection

but you have to take the stuff to their yard.

[jwirr]

13. I am very sorry about that. Many of us do it because it cuts down

on the cost of waste management, others because it is green. You have a lot elderly out there (snow birds) and it is hard to get a program going with that age group (I am one of them). Also when they live in apartments that include garbage pickup as part of the services it is often the owner of the buildings who do not want to pay the extra cost of pickup. Keep trying - Al Gore is working to educate us and many will get on the bandwagon once they see the need. You may have been ahead of your time.

[Cleita]

10. Mine does, but our family composts instead. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Yes, but it must be in bio-degradable bags.

[Porcupine]

14. Yes. Chico CA. It gets composted.

Last time I checked which was a few years ago the compost was $15 a truckload. Some (student) neighborhoods refuse to understand the waste seperation thing so that waste gets mixed and goes to the dump. The garbage contractors give you a seperate, larger, bin for green waste.

The City also does leaf pick-up for about a month a year from street piles.

I would like to see if some of the waste could get diverted to this process.
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