Green Waste Pick-Up Reservations are NOW OPEN. The last day to request pick-up is October 11.

Creating defensible space around your home is an essential step to improve your home’s chance of surviving wildfire. The Fire District supports your defensible space work by offering disposal options of most defensible space vegetation.

Review important information below and have your pile ready for pickup BEFORE making a pickup request.

*NOT eligible for contracted work. Click HERE for alternative disposal options.

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Watch the video to learn how to prepare your piles for pick-up!

Residential Curbside Green Waste Pick-Up

Truckee Fire offers free Curbside Green Waste Pick-Up. Pile your woody biomass at the curb, request a pick-up, and our crew will collect it with a grapple truck and haul it away!

IMPORTANT: This program is NOT to be used for piles created by a paid contractor. Service providers should account for full biomass removal in their bids.

Residents can transfer their TTSD 6-yard digital green waste punch card to contractors, who can then claim up to 6 free yards of disposal at the Cabin Creek ERL.

For more information on this option, visit: https://waste101.com/green-waste/

How to Prepare Your Pile:
- Stack material neatly at the curb of a public road with cut ends facing the street
- Keep piles under 6 feet high
- Maintain 3 feet of clearance from hydrants, snow poles, utility boxes, trees, retaining walls, etc.
- Ensure 15 feet of overhead clearance from power and communication lines
- Stack all material in one continuous, consolidated pile, not multiple small piles.

Eligible Material:
- Woody vegetation only: shrubs, tree limbs, or trunks up to 8” in diameter
- Material must be 6 feet long or shorter
- Both green and recently dead material accepted

Not Accepted:
- Pine needles, cones, bark
- Bags of any kind
- Roots, stumps or root wads
- Scrap lumber or construction debris
- Tractor piles, commercial or timber harvest material
- Garbage, metal, rocks, firewood rounds

This service is for vegetation removed within 100 feet of a home or structure. Vacant lots are eligible only if they fall within that 100-foot zone, regardless of property lines.

GREEN WASTE DUMPSTER REBATEs and Reimbursements

Individual 6 Yard Green Waste Dumpster Rebates

Funds from Measure T are available to reimburse you 75% of the rental cost of a 6 yard Green Waste dumpster rental from the 2026 season. Simply fill out the rebate request form and we will reimburse you 75% of the rental cost. - WHILE FUNDS LAST!

Firewise Green Waste Dumpster Reimbursements (20-30 Yard Dumpsters)

20 and 30 yard Dumpster Reimbursements are available for Firewise Community Workdays.

Other Green Waste Disposal Opportunities based on where you live:

CONTACT INFO

greenwaste@truckeefire.org
530-582-7888