Chapter 13.10 YARD WASTE

Chapter 13.10
YARD WASTE¹

Sections:

13.10.010 Service charges and rates.

A. Service charges and rates are amended and the rate schedule is available on the city website and in the finance department.

B. The rates stated above will be subject to the Washington State excise tax and city of Sumner utility tax and will appear on individual bills. (Ord. 2386 § 1, 2012; Ord. 2179 §§ 1, 4 (part), 2006: Ord. 2067 §§ 1, 2, 2003: Ord. 1882 §§ 1, 2, 1999: Ord. 1586 § 1, 1993)

13.10.020 Minimum service levels.

A. At minimum, haulers shall offer biweekly curbside yard waste collection service to city customers on the same week as recycling service on a year-round basis.

B. The hauler will provide, distribute and maintain the yard waste collection containers.

C. The materials to be collected shall include leaves, brush, tree trimmings, grass clippings, weeds, shrubs, garden waste, and other compostable organic materials resulting from landscape maintenance. Branches or roots must be smaller than four feet in length. Yard waste does not include stumps, demolition wood, large amounts of dirt, rocks, glass, plastics, metal, concrete, sheet rock, asphalt, food, or any other nonorganic land-clearing debris.

At no time is there to be any garbage mixed in with the yard waste. If yard waste is not collected the customer will be notified as to the reason so that the problem can be corrected.

D. Haulers shall take the collected yard waste to a fully licensed compost site. Use of an unlicensed site or alternate method of disposal requires review by the city council.

E. Haulers shall report yard waste collection tonnage on a monthly basis in accordance with the yard waste contract.

F. Additional materials shall be in an approved nonleaking container weighing less than 65 pounds, which shall be curbside. This container should be capable of being loaded into the hauler’s vehicle. (Ord. 1586 § 2, 1993)

See also chapter 13.12, refuse collection.