How Much Yardwaste ?

[Lawn Wizard]

I was wondering how much waste everyone takes from each customer and what everyone does with it?

I try to keep the waste I remove to a minimum but I still seem to end up with more than I like. For cutting its no biggie all my accounts I mulch, most of the waste seems to be from shrub maintenance and cleanups.

Any waste I do remove I try to compost it or in some way reuse it rather than bring it to the dump.

So I was just wondering how much everyone else was removing and what is being done with it? or any ideas on the subject.

[65hoss]

The only time I take anything off is leaves. I either bring them home and mulch them into my lawn or some of the people I know. Leaves are one of the best natural resouces you can find.

[cantoo]

I have an abandoned landfill site beside me, everything we bring home goes there, the grass sometimes goes to our cattle and goats if no spray on it. At the Lake where we collect some of our accounts the grass goes onto the local walking trails to keep down the poison ivy and weeds and to build up the low spots. At the ball diamonds and soccer fields, the grass goes to the local ravine beside the field. Most of our properties have somewhere closeby where we can put the debris.

[Lawn Wizard]

I just read an article about composting leaves. Its a whole different process than normal composting. Its called Leafmold cos it gets digested by a fungus rather than a bacteria. Takes about a year but once its done its supposed to be the best organic you can get! Ill let ya know in a year :)

[odin00]

Yard waste is easy to get rid of here,a farmer here has a compost dump he only charges 7$ a cubic yard.3yard dump only 21$
We use it mostly in fall.

[FOX-PROPERTY]

Grass..NO PROBLEM-everyone gets mulched. as for hedge clippings, pre-mow trash removal, branches and so on..I've been averaging about (1) 30 gallon container full per day. But I'm a pickey person, If it looks like it doesn't belongs on the turf, then it's history.
I keep (2) 30 gallon rubbermaid trash cans on my trailer, one for TRASH and the other for the compost pile. I have a 3 yard DUMPSTER at my home that gets emptied once a week, what ever I can put in it, they take it away---very handy!

[GreenQuest Lawn]

I have a recycle site a mile from me. I dump there then buy his dirt from him.

He turns his piles (and wow they are huge) every couple of months. I believe he said it takes more than a year.

He also said there is an 80% reduction from leaves to soil.

[Jay ALC]

I have a ditch by my shop I back up to and dump nightly, using a loadhandler. Then periodically I use a skidsteer to push the piles into the ditch if needed. Very convenient setup.

[treeman82]

Over at my shop for a good chunk of this year there was a big, and I mean BIG hole behind the lower lot. I would just go in there, with the owners' approval of course and dump grass clippings, and stones and what not. Unfortunatley the owners got into some trouble by building up the parking lot too much towards the wet lands. So they had to pull everything out, seed it, and plant some trees. This for me meant that I no longer have a dumping site over there, as well as less vehicular storage. :(

[AndysLawns]

I dump on my grandparents farm its about 10 min outside of town so its pretty convienient.

[AltaLawnCare]

I've been lucky, all mine (the few with waste) are on site - back yard, side yard, empty field, ,.. Next year I already know I'll have at least one I'll need to do something with.

[Williams Services]

I have a friend at church that lets me dump my stuff in a hole he's filling in out in one of his pastures.

[Esby]

I dump all of my waste at one of three gravel pits owned by an excavating company that I am friends with. This works great for me, but then again I just dont have a ton of waste to deal with because we never bag. Always nice to have options open though.

[Lawn Wizard]

Ive noticed a lot of companies around my area with their truck beds full of clippings. The only dump around here that accepts yardwaste charges $50 a ton. That has to cost them a fortune.

[Williams Services]

I'm sure they don't all go to the dump. They probably have their own disposal sites. I wouldn't even go to the one here that charges $20/ton. ;)

[Turfdude]

Around here, most vegetation recycling ranges from $4.00 to $8.75 per cu.yd. Most times, they don't chck load size and often underestimate. I remove as much as 6 cu.yds o grass day in spring from as few as 40 lawns. By mid summer, we send 1 3 cu yd. load to dump once per week. There really is no way around it. The turf in these transitional states grows too quick in early spring andw/ some places being so small(under 3000 cuttable), there really isn't anyplace to discharge mulched up clippings w/out bagging.

[Totallawn]

Grass - The few that I bag...the bags stay at their house for the trash man.

Leaves - A local Co. uses them for compost.

Brush - I take it to a friend that has 80 acres and we burn a HUGE pile about once a year.

[MOW ED]

Lawnwizard
Thats why the Calumet River runs thru town!!! Free dumping!
You could also go down by Pipe of Peace or the CSX or IHB yards.

I wondered how you took care of your waste without having to run for miles. What dump takes the clippings? 130th and the expressway? Tough town by Alligator Gardens.


I have a city run compost site that has crappy hours but is free. If I have to remove from the homeowners site there is a premium charged and I back the Walker into my pick up and dump into a tarp. I have reduced the number of compost visits by 75% compared to the 2000 season by mulching and side discharging and those lawns look great.

[cclllc]

Our landfill charges commercial people .07 per pound.Free if it's your own.

[Williams Services]

".07 per pound ..."

Holy moly!! That's $140 per ton!