Yard Waste and Brush Removal in Arlington, TX

Arlington yards are hardwood and prairie country: post oak, live oak, red oak, cedar elm, pecan, bur oak, hackberry, bois d'arc, eastern red cedar, and the crape myrtle and Bradford pear planted across every 1970s and 1980s subdivision. Mature canopy over the drive is the normal condition in Woodland West, Fielder, Rush Creek and along the Bowen corridor. That means real limb wood when a tree comes down, and it means a volume of trimmings that the kerbside programme was never built to absorb. River Legacy Park gives 1,031 acres of hardwood floodplain some idea of what grows here when nobody prunes it.

The city does collect brush, and the limits are specific. Limbs cut to 4-foot lengths and bundled with the large end toward the kerb, branch diameter not over 6 inches, bundles limited to 50 pounds, and roughly 2 cubic yards per household per week covering bundled brush, yard waste and bagged leaves together — about twelve thirty-gallon bags. Seasonal leaf collection runs from the week after Thanksgiving through the first week of January, up to 12 bags of 30-gallon capacity a week. One storm limb off a mature post oak can exceed the weekly allowance on its own.

Here is the part that most sites get wrong. Texas has no statewide yard-waste landfill ban. It is not in 30 TAC §330.15(e), Texas is not on the national roster of ban states, and the City of Arlington itself says bagged leaves picked up at the kerb are not recyclable and go straight to the landfill. We still run vegetative debris as a clean separate load, but by choice and for cost, not because a statute requires it: the Arlington Landfill converts green waste to mulch, and residents and contractors alike may take unbagged leaves there at no cost with the plastic bags removed first.

Yard Debris We Haul In Arlington

Sizing A Clean Green Load In Arlington

Brush is bulky and it does not compact, so green loads run out of space before they run out of weight and the box is usually bigger than people first guess. A 10 yard handles a hedge removal, a heavy pruning day or a leaf-season overflow. A 15 yard is the common answer for storm limb wood off one or two mature trees, or a front-yard landscape change. A 20 yard suits a whole-tree removal with the canopy going in alongside the trunk rounds, or a full lot clearance. Two things push the answer down rather than up: trunk rounds, which are dense enough to matter, and lifted turf, which carries soil with it. Cut limbs down before loading rather than after, because a box packed with full-length branches is mostly air and you pay for the air.

Why We Run It Separately, And What The City Takes

We keep vegetative debris in its own container, and it is worth being precise about why. There is no Texas yard-waste landfill ban — it is absent from 30 TAC §330.15(e), and Arlington itself publishes that bagged leaves collected at the kerb are not recyclable and go straight to the landfill. So nobody should tell you state law requires separation. What is true is that the Arlington Landfill converts green waste to mulch, and that a clean green load is a cheaper load than a mixed one, so we separate by choice. Residents and contractors may both take unbagged leaves to the landfill at 800 Mosier Valley Road in Euless at no cost, with plastic bags removed first, though paper bags may stay. The kerbside programme runs alongside all this and is capped: 4-foot bundles, 6-inch maximum branch diameter, 50-pound bundles, roughly 2 cubic yards a week. Keep soil, rock, fencing and treated lumber out of a green box, since any of them contaminates the load. Confirm current rules with the City of Arlington.