The City wants to provide a convenient system of picking up resident's yard trimmings. Requiring residents to bag or place their trimmings in containers would limit the amount of yard trimmings that could be set out for recycling. Ease of collection. A containerized program slows down collection, thereby increasing the cost the contractor would charge to the City - which would be reflected in residents' bills. It is difficult for the collector to identify contaminants if yard trimmings are placed in containers.
Clean trimmings lead to a higher quality compost product.
And if there is no market for the yard trimmings, then there is no alternative but to dump them in a landfill. Clean, green, cut trees can be recycled in the Recycle Plus program. Be sure to remove all decorations and stands, and cut tree into sections no bigger than 5 feet long. Trees flocked with artificial snow cannot be composted in the City's program, and are therefore considered garbage and require an extra garbage sticker.