Franklin County, FL Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Franklin County Code § 13-62 defines yard trash as tree trimmings, limbs, branches, trunks, bushes, leaves, grass clippings and pine straw left on the property where it originated. The section caps limbs, branches and trunks at four inches in diameter or six feet in length (the code itself misprints "includes" for "inches" in the first sentence, then corrects to "inches" later in the same section); anything larger is litter. Each lot or parcel may have only one yard trash pile, sized no more than four feet wide by eight feet long by four feet high.

Yard trash cannot be mixed with other material; if it is, the entire pile is reclassified as litter and becomes subject to the article's penalties. The exemption excludes commercial for-hire services, which must remove yard trash they generate and dispose of it at the Franklin County landfill, and excludes land-clearing debris, defined as removal of more than three percent of the vegetative or woody material from a lot by square foot. Section 13-64 restates that yard trash is not litter only while it stays within these size and single-pile limits; an oversized or mixed pile loses the exemption and is treated as unlawfully dumped litter under Article IV of Chapter 13, enforced by the Sheriff's Office, county code enforcement staff and other designated county employees.