Tonawanda, NY Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Chapter 181 defines yard waste in Section 181-2 as grass, leaves, brush, plants or dirt material from vegetable and flower gardens, lawns and yards, or ash from fireplaces or wood stoves. Section 181-4C leaves the timing and manner of yard waste collection to the recycling regulations the Superintendent of Highways promulgates and the Town Board approves, rather than fixing a single town-wide schedule in the chapter itself. Section 181-4D extends the same treatment to brush and tree parts generated by an owner or occupant doing their own residential yard work, allowing it to go out for Town collection in the manner the recycling regulations prescribe, while Section 181-4E preserves the right of any resident to keep yard waste on their own property for compost, mulch or other agricultural, silvicultural, gardening or landscape use instead of setting it out.

Under Section 181-4L, a bundle prepared for collection may not exceed 72 inches in length, 38 gallons in volume or 60 pounds in weight. When a contractor, rather than the property owner, generates brush or tree parts during paid work, Section 181-10A requires the contractor to remove it from the premises and forbids leaving it in the public right-of-way except temporarily during the job, and then for no more than 24 hours after the work is finished.