Items Without Tipping Fees

There are some divertible items you can bring to the landfill without tipping fees. In order for these items to be free of tipping fees, they must be clearly separated from other waste types and easily visible to the attendant. 

Place them in the appropriate diversion areas for reuse and recycling.

If you are bringing in sorted items with tipping fees and without tipping fees in a single load, you must go over the scale twice in order to only be charged for the weight of applicable items. Alternatively, you could opt to bring these items in separate loads.

If divertible items without tipping fees are mixed with garbage, then the appropriate tipping fee will be applied.

Items without tipping fees include:

• Blue Box recyclables
• Green Cart materials (organic food scraps and non-recyclable paper products)
• Scrap metal (sheet metal, siding, roofing, pipes, window frames, car parts)
• Electronics (computers, phones, keyboards, printers, fax machines)
• Appliances (refrigerators, ovens, stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers, freezers, air conditioning units, microwaves, hot water tanks)
• Reusable cloth items (pillows, blankets, sheets, towels, clothing, purses, belts, shoes)
• Leaf and yard trimmings (leaves, grass, twigs and branches, natural trees - no wider than 2 feet and no longer than 8 feet without stumps, roots or soil). Leaf and yard trimmings must be delivered loosely or in compostable paper bags.
• Sod (no soil or rocks)
• Tires (with or without rims)