You are receiving this email reminder because you signed up to receive notifications for yard material pile collection dates that occur in the Thursday service area.
Thursday, November 21 is a scheduled yard material collection day for your neighborhood. Starting Friday, November 15, excess leaves, brush, and tree prunings that do not fit into the organics carts may be placed in the street for collection for next Thursday, November 21. Please be sure to have your piles out on the street and ready for pick-up no later than 6:00 a.m. on your collection day.
As a Reminder - Yard Material Collection Rules: - Your organics cart must be full before using the on-street yard material piles. Always fill your organics cart first before placing yard materials in on-street piles for collection.
- Only these items may be placed in yard material piles: tree and shrub prunings (branches must be less than 8” in diameter and be cut to less than 5 feet in length), palm fronds, leaves and holiday trees. All other yard materials must be placed in the organics cart.
- Do not place these items in yard material piles: grass clippings, weeds, vines, sod, branches more than 8” in diameter, bulky items, pet waste, trash, recyclables, soil, flowerpots, wood, florist’s wire, stumps, or other non-yard material items. See DavisRecycling.org for disposal options.
- Yard material piles may not be larger than 5 feet in any direction or “the Claw” will not be able to pick them up.
- Yard material piles may not be set out more than 7 days before a scheduled pick-up day.
- Place yard materials directly in front of your property (not across the street or around the corner) – the pile will not be picked up!
- Place yard material piles 18” from the curb or gutter.
- Please do not block fire hydrants, driveways or stormdrain inlets with yard material piles.
- Be aware that yard material piles can create serious hazards for cyclists; please do not place piles in any portion of a bike lane.
- Do not park or drive over yard materials placed in the street for collection – if the pile cannot be reached, it cannot be picked up!
- Do not place bagged yard materials in piles – leave yard materials loose in piles on the street.
- Do not leave trash in yard material piles.
In some areas of town, yard material piles are not allowed. These areas include, but are not limited to Downtown Davis, The Cannery and other streets where piles will block bike lanes. Properties in these areas that do not have access to on-street yard material pile collection do not pay for the service (they receive a credit on their utility bill). Recology does not collect piles placed on terrace streets as those are private and not public streets.
