Springfield, OR Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Municipal Code section 4.400 defines yard debris as grass clippings, hedge trimmings, branches and limbs less than eight inches in diameter, and other vegetative waste from residential property or landscaping activities, expressly excluding tree stumps, root wads, and poisonous vegetation. Section 4.432 sets the collection mechanics: yard debris must go out in customer-supplied containers, bags, or bundles measuring no more than four feet in length and two feet in diameter, and a residential site may not put out more than five bundles at a time.

Bundles have to be free of contaminants such as dirt, rocks, metal, or other non-vegetative waste, or the collector can refuse them. The collector is not required to take any container left off the curb or any container over 60 pounds, though it must notify the customer when a container goes uncollected for excess weight; disposing of the contents of an uncollected container remains the customer's own responsibility. Section 4.406(2) ties the service to specific months set by the public works director or designee, changed no more than twice a year with at least 30 days' written notice to the collector, and each customer pays a rate the council fixes by resolution.

The collected yard debris itself must go to a facility registered with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and the collector keeps records of the tonnage collected for the city's annual report. Development and Public Works administers this program citywide in the City of Springfield, Oregon, separate from Eugene's and unincorporated Lane County's own yard debris services.