The following is text used for newspaper and newsletter articles in the Contra Costa County campaign. Grasscycling is the natural recycling of grass by leaving clippings on the lawn when mowing.
Clippings decompose quickly, returning nutrients and moisture to the soil.
Grasscycling is the simple practice of leaving your grass clippings on the lawn. Grass clippings have a high moisture content and also hold a variety of micro-nutrients, including large amounts of nitrogen. Leaving the clippings on the lawn will return moisture and nutrients to the soil beneath your lawn . Grasscycling is also an important way to avoid the work of grass disposal, and it is so easy to do. For most people, this means cutting the lawn once every one to two weeks.