Curbside Yard Waste

Curbside Yard Waste Composting by Republic Services

• This service for composting through Republic is no longer available. For the time being, yard waste will be picked up as any other bulk trash if put into a garbage can or a bag. For more sustainable options, see Curbside Yard Waste Composting by Bay Village Service Department below and mulch your grass instead of bagging when mowing. To learn how to easily compost at home, check out the free seminars offered by our very own Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District. More information on that can be found here: https://www.cuyahogarecycles.org/how_to_compost Rustbelt Riders also offers food waste composting at two drop-off sites in Bay, but you must sign up and pay a subscription to utilize this service. More on that can be found here: https://www.bayvillagegreenteam.org/waste/drop-off-food-waste-composting

Curbside Yard Waste Composting by Bay Village Service Department

The following items can be placed directly on the ground at the curb for pick-up by our city service department:

• Tree Limbs and Brush - Collection of these materials operates year round. All of the brush is taken to the Westlake/Bay Compost Facility where the brush is ground up and then sold to the public as shredded mulch. Service crews will pick up all brush that is placed at the curb, as long as it can be handled by one individual. Tree stumps and logs too large and heavy to be lifted by one individual will be left behind and not collected at that time.

• Tree limbs needing additional manpower and/or equipment to pick up and remove will need to be scheduled at a time when the equipment and manpower are available. The Service Department will not pull crews off of a job assignment to make special pick-ups.

• In order to avoid over-burdening the City’s brush pick up program, the Service Department requires that residents who hire contractors to trim or cut down trees or shrubs have the contractors remove the debris from the job site to avoid tying up the brush trucks and causing delays in the curbside pick-up program.

• Maintaining two refuse trucks for the purpose of brush collection is costly. The Service Department asks that residents assist in keeping costs down by bundling brush when possible, eliminating small piles which create unnecessary stops by crews, and placing the brush on the tree lawn in a neat and orderly fashion so that crews can collect it and dispose of it quicker.

• Leaves - Collection begins the third week in October. The Service Department will begin collection at the east end of the town and work west until the entire city has been picked up. This will be repeated until the end of the leaf collection program. Weekend pick ups will be used primarily to catch up on routes and to pick up on main roads for traffic and drainage reasons. Leaf collection will terminate at the end of December. Leaves on the tree lawns after this date must be bagged and placed for pick-up by the refuse contractor. We encourage residents to compost any small piles of leaves in their own yards or alternatively bag them for pick up by the refuse contractor.