Waste & Recycling

Trash/Recycling Pickup

Trash/recycling pick up is every other week. 
 View below as to which color tote will be picked up each week.

Trash/recycling will be picked up 1 day later than your usual pickup day on the following holidays:

• News Years
• Memorial Day
• July 4th
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas

 Magnets with each years schedule are available at the front desk of City Hall.

Recycling is Mandatory

Extra Trash & Recycling

Additional residential trash and recycling may be picked up for an additional fee of $10 by contacting Van’s Sanitation. The fee will be included on your monthly City billing statement.  Recycling Bins for excess cardboard and recycling are located in the parking lot behind Fire Station #1 on 1st Avenue SW.

Yard Waste Disposal Site

The City of Le, Mars Yard Waste Disposal Site is located at the Riverview Ball Complex off Highway 3 W. Site is open every Saturday from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM and Wednesday from 1:00 - 6:00 PM April 1st through November 30th (1:00-5:00 PM on Wednesday's after daylight savings time ends).  No containers, boxes or bags allowed.  Trees, brush, and yard waste must be separated and piled in the proper area of the drop off site.

Items ALLOWED at the Yard Waste Disposal Site include:  leaves, lawn clippings, garden waste, shrubs, stump grindings, bushes, and tree limbs not longer than 14 feet. If bags, boxes, or containers are used for transporting the yard waste, they must be emptied out and removed from the disposal site. Stump grinding materials MUST be kept separate from other tree debris and will be dumped in with the grass and leaves. Please follow the signs for directions.

Items that are NOT ALLOWED at the Yard Waste Disposal Site include stumps with root balls, tree limbs over 14 feet long, construction materials, concrete, bricks, dirt, garbage, furniture, appliances, and other household waste. 

The Yard Waste Disposal Site is for LE MARS RESIDENTS ONLY.  Non-resident use of the site is NOT ALLOWED. 

The Yard Waste Disposal Site is monitored and recorded by security cameras. Rules for use of the dump site are posted. All violators will be charged with a minimum fine of $300 for ILLEGAL DUMPING. No warnings will be issued. 

There will be no curbside pick-up of twigs and branches by the City.  The City will conduct cleanup of downed branches after major storms, as needed.  All branches must be put next to the curb.
 
Twigs, branches, and grass will also be accepted at the Plymouth County Landfill during normal operating hours.

Christmas Tree Disposal

The City of Le Mars Public Works Department does not pick up live Christmas trees curbside. However, beginning December 28th through January 13th trees may be dropped off at the City's Twig, Branch and Grass Site located behind the River View Ball Complex off Highway 3 West.  The site will be open 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Remove all lights, plastic covers, tinsel, stands, and garland.