Leaf recycling

Residents should have their leaves and other yard waste recycled by Concord Disposal. Concord Disposal offers weekly pick-up of yard debris on the same day as the regular garbage and recycling collection. Please be sure to put all yard waste recycling in the green yard waste container. If you need an extra pick up, please call Concord Disposal Service at (925) 682-9113.

Besides the yearly Spring Clean Up Day in April, all Concord homeowners with regular garbage service can call Concord Disposal at 682-9113 to schedule a free-of-charge pick up of as much as to 10 bags or 10 boxes of household garbage or yard debris not weighing more than 50 pounds each. You choose the week that suits your family!

Residents should not rake their leaves (or other material) into the street or gutter. Street cleaning equipment used by the City of Concord is specially engineered to capture small dust and sand. Piles of leaves will not fit in the suction head!

City crews employ the latest sweeping technology. Regenerative air system sweepers are designed to clean the dirt, dust, and fine silt out of pavement crevices and cracks. Potential stormwater pollutants adhere to these micron-size dust particles more than any other because of their greater surface area. The sweeper's floating pickup head sucks down to the pavement to maintain an air-tight seal, adjusting to the curvatures and irregularities of paved surfaces for pick-up effectiveness even where broom sweepers would smear the dirt and vacuums clog up.

Ambient air pollutants are regulated by the federal government beginning with establishment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in 1970. Regenerative air system sweepers meet the Environmental Protection Agency NAAQS for Particulate Matter by capturing particles as small as 10-microns and reducing fugitive dust particles as small as 2.5 microns. The EPA has determined these particles ­ only one seventh the diameter of a human hair ­ are the source of a large amount of pavement-based stormwater runoff pollution. Research shows particles smaller than 10-microns have the highest level of pollution attachment, including phosphorus, lead, copper, zinc, and other heavy metals.