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Why separating your yard waste is an important deal!
Below you will find out how to separate materials to meet our requirements for our disposal areas. If the materials aren’t separated correctly the attendant will evaluate the load and it is up to their discretion to accept or deny the load.
The Landscape Recycling Center has a requirement for all material to be separate prior to disposal. This is because any material that is not properly separated become refuge and is hauled off to the garbage site at a cost. This cost will directly affect the customer’s disposal fee.
What is LRC refuge
LRC refuge is any material that is removed during the screening process of Compost and Topsoil. Many people dispose of all recycling material in the same bag. This is not allowed at our facilities. Other facilities processes manage the separating of the mixed bagged material but the Landscape Recycling Center is not one that has that process. Bagged brush, tree limbs, potted plants and sod are material that we accept but they need to be emptied out of the bag itself. If a paper recycle bag was use, the bag may be disposed of with the other recycle paper bags. All other containers must be emptied and taken away. Customers that do not fallow these rules will be fined and/or suspended from the use of our facilities.
This is LRC refuge. It is all material that was in customers recycle bags that did not organically compost. As you can see lots of tree limbs and plastic is removed from the compost process. A large percentage of this material is organic tree matter that could have been used in the mulch if these customers followed our guidelines. Now all this material will be hauled off and disposed of properly at a substantial cost to the LRC.
How to separate your materials
Understanding what disposed materials are produced in to our products may help understand why it is important to separate yard waste for the LRC.
Non-Woody Material
Woody Material
Soil type material
Non Woody Material other than Soil type material or material with soil in it that is disposed, This material is screened and used to make both composts that we sale.
All woody material that is less than 10 inches is grounded into all the different types of mulch we sale.
Soil type material or material with soil in it that is disposed, will be screen and used in our Top soil blend.
Potted Plants
Potted plants need to be removed from the pot and soil. Clip the plant at the base so the soil can be disposed separate from the plant material. The LRC does not recycle the pot.
Remove or cut the plant above the base near soil and dispose of the plant with the leaves and grass
The soil is dispose of in its own area separate from the other materials
Bagged Brush and tree trimming
Bagged woody material needs to be emptied out the bag in the brush area. The empty paper bag needs to be disposed of in the correct area or be taken away for reuse.
