Only items approved for burning in delaware will be approved to burn.
Burning yard waste delaware.
Delaware s open burning regulations 7 de admin.
All other burning must wait until october 1.
Code 1113 define open burning as any outdoor fire or outdoor smoke producing process from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air.
Burning of trash yard waste fallen leaves or debris is never allowed.
Yard waste is plant material that comes from lawn maintenance and other gardening and landscaping activities.
Prohibitions to domestic open burning.
The burning of waste and or garbage has been prohibited in delaware since the first open burning regulations were established in 1967.
This includes grass clippings leaves prunings brush garden wastes christmas trees and tree limbs up to four inches in diameter.
Yard waste was banned for disposal from all delaware landfills as of 2007.
Yard waste is banned from all delaware landfills.
This does not include incinerators boilers or heaters used in process operations.
Prohibited residential open burning.
No one may burn more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time.
Many delaware trash haulers offer yard waste service and landowners can also take their yard waste to a commercial drop off site.
The following materials are never allowed to be burned in delaware.
Larger items may need to be handled at a commercial composting site.
Open burning of land clearing debris except as done to develop land for the purpose of establishing agricultural operations.
Open burning activities are restricted during the summer ozone season.
Alert type info the polly.
No one may burn cut or fallen branches limbs or shrubbery not generated by the homeowner s property.
Most open burning is prohibited in delaware from may 1 through september 30 typically referred to as ozone season read the citizens guide to residential open burning to learn what s allowed and what s not.
The new location for this page is.
Materials which are always prohibited to be burned in delaware include.
Leaves grass clippings garbage trash burning more than 27 cubic feet of branches limbs or shrubbery at one time at a residence.
