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Loyalist Township provides separate collections for brush and yard waste in spring and fall. Crews will pass through an area only once for each collection. They will not return for late items.

Brush pickup 

Collections are twice a year and usually in April and October. Please refer to the municipal calendar or website calendar for this year's dates. 

  • Brush must be at the curb no later than 7:00 a.m. on the first day of the program
  • Branches no larger than 4 inches in diameter
  • Smaller branches must be bundled
  • One half-ton pickup truck load allowed per household - 1.7m³ or 64 cubic feet
  • Please stack brush with cut ends facing out (towards road)
  • Yard waste is not included

Yard waste pickup 

Collections are twice a year and usually in May and November. Please refer to the municipal calendar or website calendar for this year's dates. 

  • Yard waste must be at the curb no later than 7:00 a.m. on the first day of the program
  • paper bags only (Kraft)
  • brush is not included
  • no plastic bags of any type*
  • defined as anything that is, or once was, growing in your yard, for example, grass clippings, leaves, flowers, hedge trimmings.
  • excludes food waste, pet faeces, soil, rocks, or any non-organic debris you may rake up from your lawn.

 

*It is important that yard waste is not put in plastic bags of any type, even those marked as biodegradable or as suitable for municipal yard waste. They are not acceptable for Loyalist's program. Yard waste placed in plastic bags of any kind will be left at the curb.

Kingston Area Recycling Centre

Both brush and yard waste can be dropped off at Kingston Area Recycling Corporation, 196 Lappan's Lane, Kingston. This is free of charge to Loyalist residents and it is open year round. 

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Odessa, Ontario K0H 2H0
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