Our Watershed
How Yard Waste Is Recycled
When yard waste is recycled it is kept out of landfills and turned into compost.
Once a week, the county collects yard waste at the curbs of homes in Severna Park. The bags of leaves and bundles of branches are loaded on a recycling truck, but where does this material go once it is collected? Fortunately, yard waste from our area is not dumped in a landfill. It is transported to the Western Branch Composting Facility in Upper Marlboro which is managed by Prince George’s County and operated under contract by Maryland Environmental Services. It is there that over 80,000 tons of yard waste from Anne Arundel County and Prince George’s County residents are processed into mulch and compost each year. The composting process comprises a large part of the facility's operations. When yard waste arrives, it is loaded into a …
