Volusia County, FL Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Garbage containers
- one 96-gallon plus one 32-gallon
- Yard trash limit
- up to four 32-gallon containers weekly
- Bulk trash cap
- 4 feet long or 60 pounds
- Demolition/tree debris
- special service, not curbside yard trash
- Dispute resolution
- director's decision is final
- Governing section
- Volusia County Code § 106-103(a), (c)
Summary
Unincorporated Volusia County households get up to four 32-gallon containers of yard trash collected weekly under Code § 106-103(a). Larger cuttings must meet the bulk-trash size cap, and land-clearing or demolition debris has to be arranged as a paid special service, not left at the curb.
All garbage and yard waste generated from a residential improved real property shall be placed by the customer in one or more garbage containers and placed at the applicable collection point on the designated collection day. Each residential improved real property shall be entitled to one 96-gallon container and one 32-gallon container for garbage and no more than four 32-gallon containers, or their equivalent in smaller containers, for yard trash, on a weekly basis... Tree removal, land clearing, land development, building demolition or home improvement debris shall be disposed of as a special service.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 108 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Volusia County Code § 106-103(a) sets the weekly yard trash allowance for unincorporated customers: each residential improved property gets one 96-gallon and one 32-gallon container for garbage, plus up to four 32-gallon containers, or an equivalent volume of smaller containers, of yard trash collected each week. Anything larger goes through the county's bulk trash definition in Section 106-91: cuttings from normal yard maintenance that are too big or heavy for a regular container or bundle count as bulk trash only if they don't exceed four feet in length or 60 pounds, and are picked up through the same collector franchise.
Debris from tree removal, land clearing, land development, building demolition or home improvement is excluded from both yard trash and bulk trash, Section 106-103(c) requires customers to arrange and pay for that debris as a special service directly with the collector rather than setting it at the curb with regular waste. Yard trash and bulk items follow the same 12-hour set-out and removal window as garbage under Section 106-103(d)(5), and must go to the same ten-foot curbline collection point described in subsection (d)(1). A customer and collector who disagree about what qualifies as bulk trash can have the dispute decided by the director under the Section 106-91 definition, and that decision is final.
Violations & Fines
Setting out yard trash in more containers than the weekly four-32-gallon allowance, or placing tree-removal, land-clearing or home-improvement debris at the curb instead of arranging a special service under Section 106-103(c), is treated as a violation of Article III and punishable under the general penalty in Section 1-7 via Section 106-92. Disputes over what counts as bulk trash are resolved by the director, whose call under Section 106-91 is final and binding on the customer.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What size cuttings qualify as bulk trash instead of yard trash?
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Sources & Official References
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