Austin yard trimmings
What Austin will take, what has to be prepared first, and where the rest goes.
Austin yard trimmings: what you can put out
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Put it out as it is2
- Yard trimmings
- Food scraps
Put it out, but get it ready first2
- Small branches
- Under 5 feet long and thinner than 3 inches. Stack them in piles no heavier than 30 pounds beside the cart.
- Bags of leaves and grass
- Counted within the 15 items you may put beside the cart.
Not this collection. Here is what does take it4
- Large brush, branches and tree limbs
- Anything 5 to 15 feet long is Austin's separate brush collection, which you have to book. It will not be taken from your cart day.Austin's on-demand collection512-974-2000Book through the Austin Recycles app, online, or on 3-1-1. Three appointments a year for each of bulk, brush and household hazardous waste. Nothing is collected without one.
- Tree trunks over 8 inches thick
- Cut to 3 feet or less and booked as brush.Austin's on-demand collection
- Bulk items
- Furniture and the rest go on a booked bulk collection.Austin's on-demand collection
- Household hazardous waste
- Its own booked collection, with its own three appointments a year.Austin's on-demand collection
The rules for everything above
How much
- The green cart, plus up to 15 items beside it: bags, reusable containers and small branch piles.
- Each pile beside the cart no heavier than 30 pounds.
Where it goes
- At the curb, clear of your other carts.
When to put it out
- Out by 5:30am on your collection day.
- Austin asks you to prune oaks only between July and January, because of oak wilt, and to paint the cuts straight away.
What Austin does not say
Austin publishes no answer for any weight limit for a booked brush pile. Ask them directly if it matters to you.
Read on August 29, 2026: document, yard trimmings and large brush drop, demand bulk brush and household hazardous waste collection.
From Austin’s own yard trimmings page, read August 29, 2026. Read it on the city’s site.
Also on Austin
- Austin collection daysTrash, recycling and the rest, by address.
- Austin bulk pickupWhat Austin takes, and what it will not.
- Bulk pickup, city by cityWhat each city takes, and where they disagree.
Austin schedule last checked September 5, 2026