It’s a very exciting time for city residents who’ve been confused about the City of Greensboro leaf collection policies for decades. The city has apparently decided on the next new policy that hopefully will be in existence for years. And you should know that the new era arrives next week when the city begins leaving 95-gallon yard waste containers at houses.
On Wednesday, April 3, City of Greensboro officials announced that the Solid Waste and Recycling Department will begin delivering the large gray containers on Monday, April 8, and the distribution process should last until roughly May 20, which is how long it will take to deliver more than 75,000 containers to residents across the city.
As most people know by now, each household will get one container, unless they opted out of receiving a container – or unless they choose to buy a second one.
Every household that purchased a second container before April 1 will also receive that second container by May 20.
“Residents may begin using the containers as soon as they arrive,” according to a Wednesday press release that also includes a helpful section on “How to Use Your Yard Waste Container.”
You might think the way to use it is to put yard waste in it and leave it at the curb, but, like every City of Greensboro leaf or yard waste collection policy, there’s a whole lot more to it than that.
Here’s a list of instructions as to how you can keep the city crews content:
- Use for leaves, branches and grass clippings only. Don’t place plastic bags, animal waste, food, plant pots, rocks, soil, mulch, dirt or any other items in the yard waste container.
- Close the lid of the container to keep the rain out.
- Place your container at your curb on your weekly garbage collection day.
- If you have more yard waste than fits in the container, put the extra waste in paper yard waste bags or bundle it with twine. (The city notes that bags or bundles must be shorter than 5-feet long and weigh less than 50 pounds or they won’t be picked up.)
In addition to keeping those rules in mind, each household has a limit of 10 bags/bundles per week from February to October. However, things get 50 percent better from November to January, when there will be a grand limit of 15 bags/bundles per week.
If you have personal yard waste cans, you can use those for extra waste through June 30 of this year, but, after that, you’re out of luck.
Greensboro residents can purchase one additional container for $65. If this sounds enticing to you, call the City of Greensboro Contact Center at 336-373-CITY to order one.
There’s still more to learn since the new yard waste container policy is part of “a larger shift in yard waste rules this year.” Learn all the rules by visiting www.greensboro-nc.gov/YardWaste2024.
I just called to make sure I had opted out. I was told that I had not opted out so the container will be delivered, and after it is here, I will have to call back to have it removed. I questioned why I could not just opt out now, so it would not require sending the truck here again, wasting fuel, etc. Told that was the direction from the city. Now you wonder how your tax money is being spent!!!
I have a suggestion on where to stick (uh, put) your yard waste. We are certainly paying the taxes for it.
On another note, our amigos at Piedmont Natural Gas (Duke Energy), are asking the state for an 11% rate increase because of additional operating costs. I checked, the wholesale price of Nat Gas is down some 10+ % from a year ago. How many of us got a 10% after-tax pay raise this year (maybe if you work in fast food in CA, where your hourly wage rate went from $15 to $20 {except Panera}).
Also our dear friends at AT&T just had (70?) millions of customer data stolen; including SS numbers, bank info, personal info. No excuse for that. One of the largest and most important corporations in the U.S. can’t safeguard their own data? Furthermore, if you look at their most recent financial statement, you would see that they are insolvent. Why does anyone do business with them? Or it may just be that no one can really stop hackers anymore. Get your stuff off-line.
Oh boy, we are such a smart city. So proud of our hard working council members. They know how to wisely spend and take care of the citizens money.
JV you are so correct, their latest SMART decision was to hire the Nigerian playboy and then agree to create a wonderful useless position for his “friend” …Then the intelligent council spent another 100k + of our money to get rid of their playboy who according to Hightower had done SO much for her district. I challenge Hightower to list 3 benefits the former playboy did to improve her district.
I guess the quicker option would be to burn leaves. I hope these smart folks increased the fire department budget.
I think that is illegal in the City.
Incompetent city manager and council should be illegal also. A non violent leaf burning protest should be held at city hall. Maybe we can get the non violent protesters who marched “peacefully” and looted stores on South Elm a couple years ago to organize it.