The City of Minot has announced its 10 yard waste collection sites are open for the season.

The city’s yard waste collection sites are for City of Minot garbage collection patrons only and are not for use by non-residents or by commercial haulers. Yard waste includes grass clippings, garden waste, leaves, vines, flowers, flower bed clippings and apples that have fallen from trees.

Tree branches are not allowed in the yard waste collection containers. Small piles of tree branches are picked up separately throughout the week, as time permits.

Residents with city sanitation service should put small piles of tree branches near their collection point on their regular collection day, and city crews will add their address to a list of tree piles to be collected, according to a city news release.

Regular household garbage, household hazardous waste and recycling materials are not allowed in yard waste collection sites.

The city’s yard waste collection sites are located at 27th Avenue and Seventh Street Northwest; 15th Avenue and Second Street Northeast; 11th Street and Fourth Avenue Northwest; 13th Street and Fifth Avenue Southeast; Seventh Street and Ninth Avenue Southwest; Seventh Street and 16th Avenue Southeast; 16th Street and 16th Avenue Southwest; 25th Street and Second Avenue Southwest; 4th Street and 34th Avenue Southwest; and 37th Street and 11th Avenue Southeast.