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Wood


Recycling and Disposal Stations
Take the following types of clean wood waste to the Recycling and Disposal Stations for a fee:

  • • Cedar shingles: untreated, no tar paper.
  • • Pallets
  • • Lath (no plaster)
  • • Tree limbs and stumps: less than 8 feet long and 8 inches in diameter.
  • • Unpainted plywood, oriented strandboard (OSB), and particleboard
  • • Untreated, unpainted lumber: nails and staples OK.

You must take these types of wood to the Recycling and Disposal Stations as garbage for a fee:

  • • Non-wood construction materials.
  • • Painted wood.
  • • Wood treated with preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, copper napthenate, chromium arsenate compounds, or chlordane. Large loads of treated wood must be accompanied by a Waste Clearance Form.

Yard Waste
You can dispose of yard waste such as branches with yard waste collection service, by composting or at the Recycling and Disposal Stations for a fee. See Yard Waste for more information.


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