Yard Trimmings Resources
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Yard Trimmings Publications
- GreenScapes:
Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping (PDF)
(8 pp, 1.6MB) describes EPA's GreenScapes program
and provides cost-efficient and environmentally friendly
solutions for large-scale landscaping. GreenScapes also
provides greenscaping recommendations and resources for
home
owners.
- GreenScaping
Your Lawn and Garden (PDF) (8
pp, 1.6MB) encourages consumers to grasscycle, mulch,
and compost to reduce the amount of yard trimmings in the
waste stream. It provides details on how and what to compost.
en
Español (PDF) (8 pp,
313K)
- GreenScaping:
The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard | PDF
Version (16 pp, 2.1MB)
describes how consumers, by changing their landscapes to
GreenScapes, can save time and money and protect the environment.
- California Integrated Waste Management Board
(CIWMB) Compost
Demonstration Project on Use of Yard Trimmings
Products
reports on a project involving three
types of yard trimmings products (uncomposted,
semicomposted, and fully composted) used on a
variety of farm crops.
- North Carolina's Organics:
Yard Trimmings Commodity Profile (PDF)
(6 pp, 175K) provides an overview of supply
and demand of yard trimmings.
- University of Wisconsin-Extension's Managing
Leaves and Yard Trimmings (PDF)
(12 pp, 713K) provides citizens with a
guide for effectively managing yard trimmings.
- Washington State University's Fertilizing
with Yard Trimmings (PDF)
(8 pp, 143K) describes the use of yard
trimmings in agriculture.
- Yard Waste Management - A Planning Guide for New York
State, 1990 Report. A copy of this report may be obtained
by contacting the New
York Bureau of Waste Reduction & Recycling (dshmwrr@gw.dec.state.ny.us)
at 518 402-8704.
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Other Yard Trimmings
Resources
- Composting
— EPA's Composting Web site
- California Integrated Waste Management Board's
Yard
Trimmings Web site provides information on
residential yard trimmings, Christmas tree recycling,
and commercial yard trimmings.
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