The Charles County Commissioners are pleased to announce that curbside collection of yard waste will resume on Monday, April 2, 2007.

Yard waste includes grass, leaves, garden clippings, and brush. Place the material in trash cans with handles. Affix a yard waste sticker and face the receptacle toward the street. Brown paper yard waste bags are also acceptable. They do not require yard waste stickers. The containers* weight may not exceed 50 pounds. Loose branches and brush, plastic bags, dirt, rocks, sod, and trash will not be accepted. Plastic bags are not acceptable. Branches must be in bundles that are a maximum of four feet long, with no individual branch more than six inches in diameter.

The green yard waste stickers are available free of charge at the following Waldorf locations: American Hardware, the Bannister Neighborhood Center, the Charles County Sanitary Landfill, the Hampshire Neighborhood Center, the Charles Crossing Neighborhood Center, the Dorchester Neighborhood Center, the Kingsview Neighborhood Center, the Lancaster Neighborhood Center, the Wakefield Neighborhood Center, Home Depot, Longwood Gardens, and Lowes, the Mattawoman Community Center, the John Hanson Community Center, the William Wade Community Center, and the Benjamin Stoddert Community.

Stickers are also available at the Milton Somers Community Center in La Plata and the Matthew Henson Community Center and Bryans Road Hardware in Bryans Road.

Residents may take their yard waste to the Composting Facility, located at the Landfill, or the recycling centers in Pisgah, Dentsville at Gilbert Run Park, and Cobb Island at Breeze Farm.

Weekly curbside collection of yard waste is only available to those who currently receive every-other-week blue bin curbside recycling services.

For more information, call the Department of Public Facilities 301-932-3599.