Disposing of shavings and sawdust with yard waste

[glenn bradley]

Do you mean that you exclude walnut and other species that don't belong in compost? That strikes me as a good idea, but I don't know how much it matters, given the volumes of waste we're talking about. A few gallons of walnut shavings probably wouldn't make a difference when mixed with a whole city's grass clippings. Of course, chemically treated wood would be a different story. I don't use much walnut, so it's a pretty academic problem for me.

I'm not super picky as to species. As you say; based on the scale of what they pick up on a day, let alone all week, a little walnut won't hurt. Just to please my own conscience; pressure treated stuff, MDF, anything with vinyl or melamine, plywood . . . all that stuff is trash. The rest is "wood" ;-)

[Lee DeRaud]

My area accepts sawdust and even small wood chips in the 'green' barrel. Just because I care, I seperate any sawdust or chips that shouldn't go in there although they do not require you to(?).

Mine says "branches up to 3' long and 3" diameter", which I suspect means they're running the whole truckload through a chipper before it goes into the composter/whatever. (The other clue is that they say "no palm fronds", which I understand don't get along well with standard chippers.)

And they specifically do not want it bagged or wrapped in any way.

[fRED mCnEILL]

Most horse people would take all the shavings/sawdust you can make. Its is becoming harder and harder to find.

My daughter is in the horse business and my dust collector is plumbed directly into her chip shed. She is always encouraging me to plane more wood.

Fred Mc.

[Joe Jensen]

I generate way more chips than I could use in my flower beds or for composting in a Suburban back year. I did have a coworker that took planer shavings for horse bedding, but he no longer has the horses. I just send mine in the trash. I'll look into the yard waste thing. I think we can haul ourselves to a place a couple of miles away...joe

[Jim Becker]

Most horse people would take all the shavings/sawdust you can make. Its is becoming harder and harder to find.

True, but walnut shavings are verboten in that case...poisonous to horses.