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Yard Waste Disposal
Refuse and recycling customers are required to use specially marked "City" bags for yard waste. Yard waste bags are clear compostable bags with the City logo imprinted on them.
The cost for yard waste service is $1.25 per City yard waste bag (sold in quantities of 10; cost $12.50 per package) Bags are 30 gallons in capacity. No bags other than specially marked "City" bags will be picked up. Only purchase bags as needed due to the shelf-life of compostable bags.
Please view the informational video posted below.
- Using Yard Waste Bags
- Purchase Yard Waste Bags
- Tree Waste
- Special pickups
- City Compost Site
- Yard Waste Video
Yard Waste Bags can be purchased at:
Byerly's
Casey's General Store (Lincoln Ave SE)
Cash Wise
Catholic United Financial Credit Union
Cenex
Coborn's
St. Cloud City Hall
Go For It Gas
Holiday Stations
Kwik Trip 1230 Hwy 23 E 2211 West Division St 6250 County Rd 120 3705 23rd St S 725 44th Ave N
Save-A-Lot
Schmidty's Superette
Stop-N-Go
SuperAmerica (1220 32nd Ave N & 2510 2nd St S)
9th Avenue Express
City residents are eligible to use the City's self-haul compost site located at River Bluffs Regional Park area east of County Road 75 off 33rd Street South Commercial hauler and lawn service companies are not eligible to use this site. A compost site permit must be purchased at City Hall, 400 - 2nd Street South, during regular businesss hours. Permits are also available online. Permits are not available at the compost site.
Permit Costs:
R1 Permit: $25.00 City residents utilizing City refuse & recycling services
R2 Permit: $35.00 City residents and parcels who do not utilize City refuse & recycling services
NR Permit: $45.00 Residents of neighboring cities and townships
Replacement of lost, stolen or destroyed permits: $5.00
At the time of purchase, applicant must provide the license plate number of the vehicle that will be used to transport yard waste to the compost site. Permits are non-transferrable. The compost site permit must be displayed on the inside bottom of the passenger side of the windshield. Only clean yard waste, brush and tree waste free of rocks, metal and concrete will be accepted. Acceptable yard waste includes leaves, grass clippings, pine cones, pine needles, pumpkins, acorns, apples, garden vegetation, dirt and sod. Acceptable tree waste includes branches, sticks, firewood, Christmas trees, shrubs or bushes, and cornstalks. Unacceptable: construction wood, dimentional lumber, wood pallets and other manufactured wood products, landscape rock and tree stumps. All loads entering the site must be covered and secured to prevent loss of waste in transit. Residents must unload their own yard waste, and must take all empty bags and containers with them.
Permit holders may self-load and haul composted soil and/or mulch when available from the City compost site during normal hours of operation. Permit holders must provide their own shovel and containers and must self-load and haul the compost and/or mulch. There is no additional charge for this service. Limits may be placed on the quantities of compost and/or mulch
Contact Us
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Public Works Department
Email
1200 15th Ave. SE
St. Cloud, MN 56304
Ph: 320-650-2900
Fx: 320-255-7237
Hours
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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