Burning Yard Waste Delaware

No one may burn more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time.

Burning yard waste delaware.

Prohibitions to domestic open burning. Yard waste is banned from all delaware landfills. Open burning of land clearing debris except as done to develop land for the purpose of establishing agricultural operations. All other burning must wait until october 1.

Code 1113 define open burning as any outdoor fire or outdoor smoke producing process from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air. Open burning activities are restricted during the summer ozone season. Delaware s open burning regulations 7 de admin. This page has been updated and replaced as part of the dnrec web reboot project.

Yard waste was banned for disposal from all delaware landfills as of 2007. Most open burning is prohibited in delaware from may 1 through september 30 typically referred to as ozone season read the citizens guide to residential open burning to learn what s allowed and what s not. No one may burn cut or fallen branches limbs or shrubbery not generated by the homeowner s property. This does not include incinerators boilers or heaters used in process operations.

Materials which are always prohibited to be burned in delaware include. The burning of waste and or garbage has been prohibited in delaware since the first open burning regulations were established in 1967. The new location for this page is. Only items approved for burning in delaware will be approved to burn.

Leaves grass clippings garbage trash burning more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time at a residence. The following materials are never allowed to be burned in delaware. The open burning of leaves and grass clippings is prohibited. This includes grass clippings leaves prunings brush garden wastes christmas trees and tree limbs up to four inches in diameter.

Burning of trash yard waste fallen leaves or debris is never allowed. The best way to handle most yard waste is to compost or mulch it on site. Prohibited residential open burning. Yard waste is plant material that comes from lawn maintenance and other gardening and landscaping activities.