Yard Waste Collection Resumes This Week

Due to the mild weather, Birmingham's yard waste collection service will resume two weeks earlier than scheduled.

Beginning this week, residents may place their yard waste in rigid 35-gallon containers marked with a "Yard Waste Recycling Sticker," or a 30-gallon Kraft-type paper yard waste bags. Plastic bags with yard waste will not be picked up.

Yard waste recycling stickers are available at the Department of Public Services at 851 S. Eton. For more information, contact the DPS at 248-530-1700.

Wondering what's considered "yard waste?" Check out this explanation from the DPS:

Yard waste is considered compostable materials such as leaves, grass clippings, vegetable or other garden debris, shrubbery, brush or tree trimmings less than 4 feet in length and 2 inches in diameter, that can be converted to compost humus. Yard waste also includes wood chips, chipped Christmas trees, twigs, garden vegetables and fruit, old potting soil, Halloween pumpkins, shredded bark, sod, weeds, old flowers, prunings, straw, straw bales, play sand, top soil, old mulch, corn husks, and other similar items. Please note that yard waste does not include agricultural waste, animal waste, roots, sewage sludge, stumps, and treated wood.

If you live in Beverly Hills, yard waste collection does not begin until April 2.