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Green Yard Waste Season Starts Monday!

Provo’s Yard Waste Season starts Monday and will run from March 1 through December 2, 2021. Your green yard waste cans will be emptied the same day as your regular garbage pickup. Please have your cans on the side of the road by 6:00 am.


Make sure that you are only putting yard waste in your green cans. We are unable to pick up green cans with unacceptable materials in them.

  • No rocks, dirt, sod, paper, building materials, stumps, roots or animal waste

  • The lid should be able to close – brush/limbs no longer than 3’ or hanging over can



Acceptable Materials


  • Yard Waste: grass clippings, leaves, weeds, tree branches (cut tree branches so they can fit in container)

  • Food Waste: fruit, vegetables, bread, coffee grounds, egg shells, pasta/rice

  • Other Waste: clean wood & wood chips, compostable paper bags


Not Acceptable Materials


  • Meat or any other fatty food scraps

  • Garbage, pet feces, plastics

  • Sod, dirt, bricks or cement

  • Wood products that have been treated with any kind of chemical e.g. varnished wood is not accepted


Yard waste recycling is considered a recycling option when it comes to recycling rates in your utility bill. Participating in yard waste recycling is just three touches away on your phone. Dial 3-1-1 for more information.

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Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas
Feb 24, 2021

Visited Provo last week and was shocked to see the number of no parking signs almost everywhere! No problem with areas due to safety and reasonable limitation, but when we can't park anywhere when we come to visit family is insane! Such action should initiate a recall for any publicly elected mayor who allowed such an overreach to occur. Everyone who hears about it is highly incensed and ready to act. The job of the city is to serve it's citizens, not to get some kind of a good buy on no parking signs and plaster them anywhere. 8 parking spaces gone in one area of one block! If BYU is the source of these signs, due to inadequate…

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