What is Yard Waste and How Does it Affect City Cleanliness?

Yard waste is any debris or leftover material on your property, but not in your home. This means yard waste can be grass cuts, yard trimmings, branches, concrete pieces, fencing materials, or landscape debris from installations or renovations. The City of Atlanta considers yard waste to be different:

[Yard trimmings are considered] leaves, brush, grass clippings, shrub and tree plantings, including tree roots, branches not exceeding 4 feet in length and 6 inches in diameter, discarded Christmas trees and nursery and greenhouse vegetative residuals. [You must] place yard trimmings in paper bags…[they shall] not be accepted in plastic bags…[and] over 20 bags of yard trimmings paper bags [sic] per collection. 

 

What does this passage actually mean for the resident of Atlanta? It means that yard debris as far as the city is concerned, is a limited definition. The city will accept yard debris that is small enough and biodegradable, but anything else is not going to be handled by them. Additionally, you can only really choose to buy a bin and use it as a reusable container for the yard trimmings; this is considered the only viable option because the alternative is filling paper bags with sharp trimmings and risking the bag breaking. What’s more, is that if you have a large amount of debris to get rid of, the city won’t be able to help for days, and they’ll only be able to take a fraction of the stuff that the professionals can remove. 

The city of Atlanta partially prides itself on its beauty, and as part of that pride, city officials consider widespread city cleanliness to be greatly important. This is why there are hefty fines for things the city considers ‘abandoned’ or creating a ‘nuisance’ for the residents. Due to their definition of yard waste, you can see how people can be blindsided by huge fines.

Why Atlanta Residents Need Yard Waste Removal

Apart from avoiding those heavy fines from the city, there are a lot of reasons why you might need yard waste removal or assistance with your current removal. For example, consider those who have large backyards and close families; making sure that your yard is clean and generally prepared for a last-minute event is important, especially if the event is a once-in-a-lifetime event like a wedding or a funeral reception. 

However, you don’t need to be preparing for a lifetime event to find a use for residential junk removal, especially if there has recently been a storm in the area. Storms are some of the most difficult things to clean up after, with everything from broken fences to cows on roofs. 

Junk King Atlanta believes that junk and waste are a necessary part of our existence—as long as there are humans, there’s going to be junk and waste. Similarly, if you have a yard or property, you will at some point need help cleaning, maintaining, or installing new things into the yard. When that time comes, explore your options with Junk King services. Read on to learn more about Junk King and the special aspects that set us apart from the rest of the industry. 

Atlanta’s Best Residential Yard Waste Removal Services

You have a lot of choices when it comes to picking your yard waste removal service. You have so many options, in fact, that entire websites have been built to provide you with options and services that fit your needs and budgets. Lawn Starter is one such example; they specialize in giving you access to the best, most specialized, yard waste removal services. 

For example, you may want to find reviews for family friendly service while also receiving professional service options. In this case, you could choose to work with Progreen International, in business for 40 years, and is at the top of Lawn Starter’s top-rated removal teams for the area. Or you could think about looking at Site One Landscape Supply; they are equipped to help you with everything you might need for a landscaping project, from mulch, straw, soil, or sod to every tool and part you might need for an irrigation system. 

What Makes Us the Best in the Business?

There are two important things to remember about choosing to work with a specifically yard waste removal company, even if it is the Best Yard Waste Service, Atlanta, GA:

1. They have size limitations for removals, as a byproduct of them having small work vehicles. By extension, this also means that the overall cost of their services will also be smaller; despite this, if you were to remove the same amount of yard waste using a removal through a yard waste removal service versus a Junk King MINI, you’d find that you’re saving far more money going with the MINI. Many people who order a MINI find themselves loading up more than just their yard waste though—appliances, construction debris, and even mattresses are often loaded into the MINI. 
2. They will only remove your yard waste since they do not have the facilities to be able to process other materials. This may not seem like an immediate issue, but because they do not have the facilities for processing, they would end up either sending it away (costing you more money in the end as labor) or they would take it to the dump (possibly helping to further degrade the local environment). That said, most yard waste removal companies get around this issue by simply not taking non-yard waste. 

In comparison, consider what is possibly the best yard waste removal service: Junk King. If you don’t believe us, here’s a little about what makes us the best in the business:

1. Founded in 2005, Junk King was created as a junk removal service with a focus on customer service and on environmentally-friendly disposal methods. This is different from others who were found in that time period, as junk hauling was a new business model; other companies since then have started to prioritize customer service and green stances, but Junk King was the first—and so they have the methods perfected. 
2. Junk King is also known as North America’s greenest junk removal company. Upon its founding, Junk King was committed to recycling, reusing, repurposing, or donating at least 60% of everything that they hauled. That policy is still in place today, but because technology has gotten better, some franchise owners have upped this 60% commitment into a mission as high as 95-98% of every haul. 
3. Junk King provides two distinct and special modes of service for all removals. As mentioned above, the 12-cubic yard MINI dumpster is one-half of the available services; self-service can have a MINI delivered to your driveway within days, and you rent it for a 3, 5, or 7-day span. After that, it is collected and taken to the Junk King recycling hub. In contrast, there is also the Junk King full-service, which consists of a Big Red Truck and a two-person removal crew so you don’t have to lift a finger. 
4. Junk King bases its prices unlike most other waste removal services, since Junk King decides prices based on the volume of the dumpster or truck used. Other removal services will commonly weigh their trucks or dumpsters to give you a price, cutting into your wallet to get rid of a dryer. However, because Junk King’s policy is that you only pay for the space you use, things like weight are never a concern for your budget. 

How to Prepare for Your Yard Waste Removal Day?

Depending on the type of yard debris being removed, you should take some time to prepare the materials for the easiest and fastest removal possible. Prepare for your disposal day by taking a look through our best tips to get yourself and your yard ready for the removal:

• Branches and tree limbs—these are likely the biggest pieces of your yard waste, it will help the process along to tie the sticks and tree limbs together using twine. You must use twine though, as the twine can be processed with the branches for the most reuse.
• Clippings/leaves—this is possibly the biggest generator of yard waste, so taking the time to properly bag as much as possible will make your removal go by almost instantly (regardless of the service you chose). Keep in mind, however, that many recycling facilities can only accept things in eco-friendly materials (like paper bags over plastic). 
• Make some space—our trucks are big, and despite the MINI being…well, mini, giving any professional crew the space they need to do their job is very important. Without the proper space, you could end up with damaged property, and no one wants the consequences of that. 
• Be proactive on removal day—doing things like double-checking that your dogs are in the right place or that your children are where they should be, could make all the difference for your yard debris removal day.

You’ve Done It! Now Enjoy Your Beautiful Lawn without Debris

When it comes time for you to start thinking about your options for your yard, turn to Junk King North Atlanta. When you choose to move with Junk King, your junk hauling, trash removal, or yard waste disposal is as simple as 1, 2, 3—just point and the junk is gone!

There are three ways to contact us and four ways you can get a (nearly) instant quote:

• Call us at (706) 247-7513: you can either get a quote over the phone or set up an appointment with an in-person assessment. 
• Text us at (737) 888-5865: you can receive a text back with your quote. You can even receive multiple quotes using this method.
• Stay online and explore your options with the Junk King pricing calculator: created with the end-user experience in mind, you can see ball-park estimates that will help you make a decision on who to work with for your removal.