Lubbock, TX Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

06 (Solid Waste), spells out how a resident has to prep brush before the city will haul it away. Trees and limbs removed from a property must be trimmed free of branches, cut into lengths that don't exceed five feet, and kept light enough that no cut length weighs more than 80 pounds. Prepared material goes in the alley next to the property, stacked in a neat, orderly manner so it doesn't obstruct vehicles using the alley. 005 backs this up: an owner or occupant who fails to remove discarded furniture, appliances, mattresses, carpet, tree limbs, or other bulky items from the premises or the abutting street, alley, or sidewalk, when that material can't fit in a regulation container, is in violation.

012 adds a time limit: brush, garbage, or rubbish left in an alley or public place for more than twenty-four hours is itself a separate violation, chargeable to the owner or occupant on whose half of the alley it sits. 006 separately bars yard byproducts like manure from being mixed into containers meant for household garbage. Together the sections put the prep work on the resident, cut, bundle, weigh, and place correctly, and give the sanitation department a basis to skip or cite improperly staged piles.