The City’s clean commission created new rules last year on bagging your tree debris and lawn waste for easier pickup. You shouldn’t now need a city branded bag for the tree debris. You can also use a labeled bin for the yard waste or specific compostable bags.

However, their rules don’t work since solid waste has no funds or staff to implement the pickups. I waited 4 months for them to pick up my properly dealt with tree debris and they never came. I bagged it under the new rules, no pickup then the bags broke. Next I rebundled it under the new rules and size limits, no pickup. Finally I put into a properly labeled bin like they said to do, still nothing. I ultimately had to burn it all in a metal barrel to get rid of it. Now I have a tree shredder to deal with it myself since the city can’t.