City of Brighton Yard Waste Collection Begins This Week

Curbside yard waste collection begins this week in the City of Brighton, and will run very other week through the end of September. Yard waste removal service is provided as part of customers' property taxes and is available to any customer that currently receives curbside waste removal services. Pick-up coincides with your regularly scheduled waste removal day.

In the city of Brighton:

-Yard waste includes leaves, twigs and branches, grass clippings and other organic materials such as flowers, weeds and garden plants.
-Yard waste must be packed in brown paper bags, or bundled together. There is a limit of 10 brown paper bags and/or four-foot bundles of brush, not to exceed 60 pounds per bundle.
-Please place yard waste by the curb by 6:00 AM.

The program in the City of Brighton is one of only 120 in our state. Yard Waste is collected and shipped to Tuthill Farms Composting (located between Brighton and Whitmore Lake) to be composted.

When composted, it:
-Provides nutrients to the soil,
-Increases beneficial soil organisms (e.g., worms and centipedes),
-Suppresses plant diseases reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides,
-Protects soil from erosion,
-Assists pollution remediation.
-Yard waste is collected and shipped to Tuthill Farms Composting (located between Brighton and Whitmore Lake).

Source: City of Brighton website