What To Do With Yard Waste

Tree Limbs Littering the Lawn?

The same-day junk hauling experts at Junk.com advise on the best ways to get rid of yard waste. 

Every landscaping project and weekly mowing session generates yard waste, or all organic materials such as leaves, grass clippings, weeds, brush, and tree trimmings. You might have a lot of yard waste following severe storms or the changing of the seasons. These materials are often not allowed in your regular curbside trash bin, so you will have to find an alternative means to dispose of them.

Clean up your front lawn with these 5 methods for getting rid of yard waste.

1. Create Your Own Compost 

A home compost bin is a great addition to any outdoor enthusiast’s backyard. You can add grass clippings, fallen leaves, and garden trimmings to your compost bin, along with food waste items like fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, and eggshells. Weeds and seeds should not be composted. 

Once inside your compost bin, your yard waste will break down over time and transform into a precious soil conditioner which you can use to help nourish the plants growing in your front lawn.

2. Create Your Own Mulch

You can improve the appearance of your garden, help suppress weeds, and regulate your soil’s temperature and moisture level by adding some mulch to your garden beds. Yard waste like leaves, bark, tree trimmings, and branches can all be turned into mulch. 

Leaves can be mulched with your home lawn mower. Just spread the leaves out over the ground and run the mower over them a few times to shred the leaves. You can rent a wood chipper for small branches and mix the wood chips together with your grass clippings and shredded leaves to make a home mulch.

3. Use City’s Collection Service 

Put your research glasses on, your city’s bulk trash pickup likely has a collection process for yard waste as well. There may be an additional charge by the season, and there will likely be many rules and regulations for you to follow. For instance, you may need to tie or bag your yard waste in a particular way before the city will see fit to haul it off.

4. Rent a Dumpster

Renting a dumpster is a great way to dispose of large quantities of yard waste at your own pace. You fill the dumpster, and then call your dumpster rental company to come claim the waste. This requires that you do all the manual labor of getting the yard waste into the dumpster.

If you have a significant project that will involve a lot of landscaping work and will generate a ton of yard waste over several days to several weeks, then renting a dumpster might be the option that works best for you.

Be sure to read your terms of service for your dumpster rental very carefully to ensure you are following the proper rules and regulations.

5. Call For Same-Day Junk Removal

Get left with a lot of yard waste following a tree extraction or a major storm? You can say goodbye to all the yard waste as soon as today, just call for junk removal. A junk removal crew can collect the downed tree branches, shrubs, leaves, and other organic waste. Once the yard waste is collected, it will be sustainably and responsibly disposed of according to local regulations.

Get your outdoor space looking pristine and beautiful again by kicking that yard waste off your lawn with junk removal. 

Lawns Clear of Clutter 

Clean up after a storm or give your lawn a seasonal face lift by calling Junk.com for all your yard waste removal needs. We’ll even cart off your old patio furniture, dysfunctional grill, broken hot tub, and all the construction debris from your recent remodeling project. 

Call (844) 771-6830 or use the online booking tool to schedule your no-obligation estimate. If you like our fair price, we’ll get to hauling the yard waste off straight away.