Please note that your Curbside Yard Waste Pickup zone is the same as your Emergency Evacuation zone, and your zone number is printed on the postcard sent to your address announcing the 2024 Curbside Yard Waste Pickup event.

If you do not know your zone, go to the City's Know Your Zone webpage to identify your zone or click on the City's Curbside Yard Waste Pickup map below to view your zone and pickup dates.

Material Placement Guidelines

• Place material 2 feet from the edge of the street pavement.
• Place material by 4 PM the day before your zone's first service date.
• If you miss your window to put debris out, there will be an opportunity to haul your debris, by appointment only, between April and May to the City material yard south of the Sedona Wetlands Preserve at 7700 W. 89A. Contact Ryan Hayes, City Maintenance Supervisor, to coordinate at 928-203-5063. Do not bring more than 5 cubic yards (a pile no larger than 10 feet long by 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall).
• Chipped mulch will be available to residents. Dates and times to be announced.

Your pickup days

Be ready for collection in spring 2024

Every year, the City offers a Curbside Yard Waste Collection event in April/May to help with your yard maintenance, reduce your wildfire risk, and remove debris in drainage areas prior to monsoon season.

Accepted for collection:

• Brush
• Tree limbs and trunks: Limbs 8 inches or less and 8 feet long or less.
• Shrub trimmings
• Paper-bagged leaves and pine needles: No more than 10 paper bags. No plastic bags.
• Total amount of debris accepted cannot exceed 5 yards, or a pile no larger than 10 feet long by 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall.

Not accepted:

• Cactus trimmings
• Appliances
• Hazardous materials
• Garbage
• Mattresses
• Other household waste

Background

During the development of the City's Climate Action Plan, City Council identified a target of reducing community greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030. In the Plan, implementing annual yard waste collection is identified as one of the high impact practices to reduce emissions.

Approximately 24 percent of municipal waste streams are made up of compostable materials like yard waste and food waste. When organic materials, such as food and yard waste (grass clippings, leaves, brush, etc.), rot in the landfill they break down anaerobically (without oxygen) and create large amounts of methane. This flammable greenhouse gas is the same as emitted through the production of coal, oil, and natural gas. In contrast, composted yard waste can be used as a natural soil fertilizer in municipal operations.