As with any major city, Stockton comes with its own rules and regulations with regards to the removal of garbage. While these might not be considered hard and fast rules that can result in jail time for disobedience they still remain on the books and are expected to be enforced.

Every home in Stockton is provided with trash carts for weekly pickup. The maximum weight for these 96 gallon carts is 250 pounds. If you exceed that weight the driver will still attempt to dump out the garbage but if they can’t then you may get a non-collection notice slapped onto your cart. You will then have to make your own adjustments to get it under the weight limit. One area where the way can tip the scale is with yard waste.

Here’s what the city of Stockton considers as acceptable green/food waste that goes into your recycling bin:

• Grass trimmings
• Weeds
• Green plants
• Tree limbs
• Wood chips
• Dead plants
• Brush
• Garden trimmings
• Leaves
• Vegetable and Fruit Peelings
• Solid Dairy
• Egg Shells
• Meat/Fish
• Food contaminated paper/cardboard
• Greasy pizza boxes

On the other side of the coin, there is a list of non-acceptable materials for the green waste cart. And they get very specific about these items:

• Branches more than 5 feet in length, more than 6 inches in diameter or weighing more than 50 pounds
• Tree stumps
• Diapers
• Styrofoam
• Soil
• Dirt
• Rocks
• Concrete
• Asphalt
• Plastic bags
• Animal waste or pet litter
• Painted wood
• Treated wood

You are also admonished not to bag your Green waste and make sure the ladies closed and the opening faces the street. While it is true that most people follow the rules there is the occasion when you might have to stray from the regulations. What happens then? For instance suppose you are digging up the backyard to make room for garden would you do with all those clumps of sod? If you’re redoing a patio you might have some leftover pieces of brick or concrete. You certainly can’t throw those out in the weekly garbage pickup! And if you are digging up trees or trimming those trees you can see you’ll be stuck with the stumps!

There is a solution: hire a professional yard waste removal crew with Junk King Stockton. These would be the same experienced haulers that can take away all your junk that you might have lying around the garage or home. The bottom line is that these folks have the manpower and the truck space to haul away just about anything you need gone from your environment. Even if you have a just a few yard waste items you could combine them with some of that household clutter to fill up that truck. This could be the perfect opportunity to clean the indoors and the outdoors of your home!