Burning Yard Waste Delaware

Leaves grass clippings garbage trash burning more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time at a residence.

Burning yard waste delaware.

Larger items may need to be handled at a commercial composting site. Materials which are always prohibited to be burned in delaware include. The new location for this page is. Code 1113 define open burning as any outdoor fire or outdoor smoke producing process from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air.

No one may burn more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time. The following materials are never allowed to be burned in delaware. This includes grass clippings leaves prunings brush garden wastes christmas trees and tree limbs up to four inches in diameter. Alert type info the polly.

Many delaware trash haulers offer yard waste service and landowners can also take their yard waste to a commercial drop off site. Yard waste is plant material that comes from lawn maintenance and other gardening and landscaping activities. Yard waste was banned for disposal from all delaware landfills as of 2007. Prohibited residential open burning.

The best way to handle most yard waste is to compost or mulch it on site. Only items approved for burning in delaware will be approved to burn. Prohibitions to domestic open burning. This does not include incinerators boilers or heaters used in process operations.

Most open burning is prohibited in delaware from may 1 through september 30 typically referred to as ozone season read the citizens guide to residential open burning to learn what s allowed and what s not. The burning of waste and or garbage has been prohibited in delaware since the first open burning regulations were established in 1967. The open burning of leaves and grass clippings is prohibited. This page has been updated and replaced as part of the dnrec web reboot project.

All other burning must wait until october 1. Yard waste is banned from all delaware landfills. Open burning of land clearing debris except as done to develop land for the purpose of establishing agricultural operations. Burning of trash yard waste fallen leaves or debris is never allowed.