Twin Falls County, ID Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 4-4-1 of the burning regulations chapter defines "normally acceptable yard waste" as tree limbs, dry leaves, and other dry vegetation matter produced on the premises that is readily burnable without a great concentration of smoke, but it specifically carves grass clippings back out, stating they are considered garbage rather than yard waste. Section 4-4-2 then sets the county's general accumulation rule: it is unlawful to deposit, collect, store or accumulate garbage or rubbish on land, lots, premises, alleys, rights of way or roads in the county, but the section exempts normally acceptable yard waste and garbage produced on the premises from that ban.

In practice this means a homeowner can keep a pile of tree limbs or dry leaves generated on their own property without violating the accumulation rule, but a pile of grass clippings, or garbage brought in from elsewhere rather than produced on-site, is not protected and falls under the general prohibition. The rubbish definition in section 4-4-1 reinforces the same distinction, excluding "normally acceptable yard waste or compost piles" from the broader category of nonputrescible waste the county otherwise regulates as rubbish, tying the yard-waste exemption to the same burning chapter that also governs when and how that material may be burned rather than hauled away.