Burning Yard Waste Delaware

This includes grass clippings leaves prunings brush garden wastes christmas trees and tree limbs up to four inches in diameter.

Burning yard waste delaware.

All other burning must wait until october 1. Delaware s open burning regulations 7 de admin. Yard waste is plant material that comes from lawn maintenance and other gardening and landscaping activities. Larger items may need to be handled at a commercial composting site.

The new location for this page is. No one may burn cut or fallen branches limbs or shrubbery not generated by the homeowner s property. Yard waste was banned for disposal from all delaware landfills as of 2007. Prohibitions to domestic open burning.

Only items approved for burning in delaware will be approved to burn. Open burning of land clearing debris except as done to develop land for the purpose of establishing agricultural operations. Many delaware trash haulers offer yard waste service and landowners can also take their yard waste to a commercial drop off site. The burning of waste and or garbage has been prohibited in delaware since the first open burning regulations were established in 1967.

The following materials are never allowed to be burned in delaware. Materials which are always prohibited to be burned in delaware include. Open burning activities are restricted during the summer ozone season. This does not include incinerators boilers or heaters used in process operations.

Leaves grass clippings garbage trash burning more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time at a residence. Most open burning is prohibited in delaware from may 1 through september 30 typically referred to as ozone season read the citizens guide to residential open burning to learn what s allowed and what s not. This page has been updated and replaced as part of the dnrec web reboot project. Yard waste is banned from all delaware landfills.

Alert type info the polly. Burning of trash yard waste fallen leaves or debris is never allowed. No one may burn more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time. Prohibited residential open burning.