Fees to dispose of yard waste?
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Kestas
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A good alternative is composting. My old house had poor soil. I'd even grab leaves from my neighbors to compost. It certainly helped with my garden.
I understand by law every homeowner in Mississauga needs to have a compost pile.
I understand by law every homeowner in Mississauga needs to have a compost pile.
I should add, many of my neighbors have fire pits they can use to dispose of leaves, but we also live in a semi-wooded area and random tree branches/weeds/etc are a larger reason for the fire pits, besides enjoying a fire every now and again, but you have to be careful about not having many nearby leaves or much wind this time of year, can't leave it unattended, too easy to have a fire spread otherwise.
$9 per ton for yard debris here.
Curb pickup, one sticker per bag. Last time I checked, a sticker was slightly under $3.
Right now we have free leaf pickup. Leaves have to be bagged, but no stickers needed unless you mix grass or some other yard waste in with the leaves; then they consider it yard waste and require a sticker.
Right now we have free leaf pickup. Leaves have to be bagged, but no stickers needed unless you mix grass or some other yard waste in with the leaves; then they consider it yard waste and require a sticker.
Kestas
Staff member
We have a brown space in our wooded neighborhood for leaves, grass, brush, and logs. The problem is people have been dumping cement and other noncompostables. It cost us a lot to clean the area.
Personally, half my property is raw woods where all my compostables (kitchen waste and brush) go.
Personally, half my property is raw woods where all my compostables (kitchen waste and brush) go.
Free for city folk. They can bring it to a location themselves, otherwise in the spring and fall are a couple pickups for all yard waste put on the curb. Everyone else, $30 per ton at the landfill. I assume most non-city and non-commercial people just burn it or dump it somewhere on their own property.
Its all big business now I guess. My dump recently prohibited dump picking. I used to occasionally grab a mower or something such that looked decent. The purest form of recycling if you ask me.
Sanford and Sons makes the rounds early on garbage day around here! Putting stuff out at the curb for the free is the way to go, no nosy neighbors and all.
In my former home, a tip to the fellows on the truck at Christmas time would ensure that just about anything (within reason) was tossed in the truck with a smile. No tip meant that they followed the rules to a t. Maybe not break open the bag, but for sure they would not have taken it.
If they start charging for yard waste I will set up a huge compost in the woods.
