Brush and yard debris hauling for College Station yards

The city picks up brush every week, on the same weekly schedule as garbage and bulky items. Recycling runs every other week. Brush has to be at the curb in front of the home by 8 a.m. on collection day.

Keep it in its own pile. The crew won't pick up a pile that mixes brush with bulky items like an old patio chair or a busted grill. If you have both, make two piles.

This one catches people. College Station's online FAQ limits brush to 10 bags, bundles or cans. Bags have to be under 50 pounds, and limbs need to be tied in bundles no more than 5 feet long and no heavier than 50 pounds.

The city's printed Household Waste and Recycling Guide says something different. It says to cut brush to less than 8 feet and stack it within 3 feet of the curb.

Both are the city's own words, so we can't tell you which one the crew goes by on your street. Call the city or check its current pages before you cut and stack a big pile. If the answer means hours of sawing and bundling, that's a good time to text us instead.

College Station's curbside service can't take soil, sod, concrete, rock, tires, auto parts, paint, petroleum products or construction debris from a contractor. A lot of yard projects make exactly that kind of waste: sod scraped up for a new bed, the rock border you're replacing, a cracked concrete step, the old tires that held down a tarp.

Those are the jobs where we fit. Dirt, rock and concrete are dense, so they're quoted separately by weight and handling rather than by trailer space. Lighter debris like limbs, leaves and old boards is priced by the room it takes. See how pricing works.

Brush the city collects goes to Twin Oaks, where it's shredded into compost and mulch that the public can buy. The landfill itself sits in Anderson, in Grimes County, not in Brazos County.

That's a good reason to keep paint cans and trash bags out of the brush pile. Clean brush has somewhere useful to go.

Storms here don't wait for collection day. When Hurricane Beryl's remnants came through in July 2024, WTAW reported a 59 mph peak gust and 1.2 to 2.5 inches of rain in the College Station area, and almost 6,000 BTU customers lost power at some point. In February 2021, Brazos County was part of FEMA's winter storm declaration, and both Bryan and College Station suspended trash service before restarting brush and bulky pickup later that month.

After a storm, everybody's pile goes out the same week. If a big limb is blocking the driveway or the pile is far past the city's limits, text a photo. Our storm debris cleanup guide covers what to do first, and our page on junk removal in College Station covers the rest of what we haul.

Give us a call or text when any of these sound like your yard: