Auburn, AL Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 20-32's residential trash collection policy covers yard waste specifically. Trash should be placed at curbside the evening before the designated pickup day when possible, and it must be separated into two distinct piles: leaves, grass clippings, straw, tree limbs and other wood products in one pile, and metal and other debris in another. The city collects up to five cubic yards (a volume equal to six feet by six feet by four feet) of residential yard waste at no additional charge. 00 for amounts over eleven but no more than twenty-two cubic yards, under rates last amended by Ordinance No.

2967 in 2016. The same section bars several yard-waste-adjacent practices: placing debris from a lot-clearing project at the curb, placing treetops and limbs from a commercial wood-cutting job at the curb, and placing commercial building material out for pickup, all of which push cleanup costs onto the private contractor rather than the city. Placement that blocks sidewalks, gutters or drainage, creates a fire or traffic hazard, or sits under low power lines or tree limbs is barred regardless of volume.