The City provides free green waste collection. To easily participate in this program, simply place your yard trimmings in the 96-gallon charcoal gray recycling container at the curb on the same day as your regular trash collection.

You can recycle:

• Leaves
• Grass clippings
• Weeds
• Twigs
• Shrubbery
• Tree trimmings

We cannot accept:

• Yard trimmings in plastic bags or wrapped in cloth or wire
• Agave, yucca, palm, bamboo, or juniper
• Kitchen scraps, fruit, trash, or hazardous waste
• Dirt, rocks, asphalt, concrete, or sand
• Animal Waste
• Painted or treated wood, scrap lumber, formica, or nails

Please Remember: No plastic bags in the greenwaste bins.

For additional information on greenwaste, please follow this link: Blue Barrel

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• If you don’t generate greenwaste at your property you may qualify for an exemption. $2 will be taken off your bill. Click to download exemption form or contact the City's Environmental Services Division for an exemption application. If you have extra yard trimmings, please call your hauler. Greenwaste may also be dropped off locally (for a small charge) at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill.

Home Composting

• Composting is nature's way of recycling. It is the biological decomposition of organic debris such as leaves, grass clippings, fruit and vegetable trimmings and other organic material commonly found in the trash. Compost refers to the stable humus or soil-like product of decomposition.
• Home composting is another way Santa Clarita residents can reduce their waste, save resources and protect valuable landfill space. Composting is the optimum way to turn organic materials into a nutrient-rich soil amendment. Soil conditioned with compost drains better, needs less irrigation and resists surface crusting and erosion.
  
• In Santa Clarita, a significant amount of the garbage disposed of annually is organic green waste.

Grasscycling

• Grasscycling is the natural recycling of grass by leaving clippings on the lawn when mowing. Grass clippings decompose quickly and release valuable nutrients back into the soil. Grasscycling is simple, easy, and it works!
  

Does grasscycling spread lawn disease?

• Improper watering and fertilizing have a much greater impact on disease spread than grasscycling. If a desirable environment for turfgrass disease is present, infestation will occur whether clippings are collected or not!

Are there alternatives to grasscycling?

• Yes! Grasscycling is not appropriate in every situation. Prolonged wet weather, mechanical breakdown of mowers, or infrequent mowing are situations where grass clippings should probably be placed in the yard trimmings container since an excessive volume of clippings will be generated. But do not throw the clippings away! Grass clippings are excellent additions to a backyard compost pile.
  
• Clippings can also be used as mulch to provide weed control and prevent moisture loss around flower beds, trees, and shrubs.
  
• For more information about composting and grasscycling please visit the California Integrated Waste Management Board website or www.smartgardening.com.