Pembroke Pines, FL Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- § 94.13(B), residential curbside service
- Collection frequency
- twice weekly, 3+ days apart (§ 94.13(A))
- Earliest curbside placement
- 6:00 p.m. day before pickup
- Must be off curb by
- 10:00 p.m. on collection day
- Oversized yard debris
- free bulky pickup each February (§ 94.15)
- Max penalty
- $500 fine or 90 days jail (§ 10.99)
Summary
Under Pembroke Pines Code § 94.13(B), homeowners must tie yard trash into neat bundles and set it at curbside with regular solid waste for the city's contracted collector to pick up. Bundles cannot go out earlier than 6:00 p.m. the evening before the scheduled collection day and must be off the curb by 10:00 p.m. that day.
Yard trash shall be tied neatly in bundles and placed at curbside along with solid waste for collection. Newspapers shall be separately placed in containers provided by the city or bundled in amounts not exceeding 50 pounds and placed for collection on the day designated. The containers, yard trash and newspaper shall not be placed in the aforementioned place sooner than 6:00 p.m. the day preceding the regularly scheduled day of collection and shall not be permitted to remain past 10:00 p.m. of the collection date.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-61: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ord. 2056, passed 12-11-25).
Full Breakdown
13(A) requires the city's contracted collector to pick up solid waste, including horticulture trash, from residential curbside twice a week with pickups at least three days apart. on collection day itself. Between pickups, the code requires the customer or property owner to keep containers, and by extension yard trash awaiting bundling, clean and either stored inside a structure, in the back yard, at least ten feet behind the building line, or screened from view of the street and neighboring properties, so a resident cannot stack loose brush at the curb for days before the truck arrives.
15's free bulky-item collection, which the collector runs once a year in February with the city notifying residents of the exact dates. 14(A), which bars placing solid waste loosely or in front of a private premises "except as provided hereinabove or in the agreement," and the owner or occupant of the property, not the collector, bears primary responsibility for the yard trash's placement and removal.
Violations & Fines
A resident who sets loose brush or unbundled yard trash at the curb outside the scheduled window violates § 94.14(A), which makes the property owner or occupant primarily responsible for the debris's placement and removal. Because Chapter 94 has no dedicated penalty section for § 94.13 or § 94.14, a violation is punished under the citywide general penalty at § 10.99: a fine of up to $500, up to 90 days in jail, or both, with each day the condition continues counted as a separate offense.
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