How to Get Your Brush Collected in 2025

Go to our brush collection website and enter your address into the form to see the dates when you should put out brush for pickup.

The website is www.cityofmadison.com/BrushCollection.

Set out dates are different depending on where you live.

Every neighborhood has five collection chances.

After you enter your address on our website, you will see all five dates when you should put brush out for pickup.

Think of brush as branches and sticks.  It’s the woody material you cut from trees, shrubs, and bushes. We take your brush and make wood mulch out of it.

Brush must measure between 18 inches and 8 feet so crews can collect it safely.

Pile brush on the terrace, or the grass at the edge of the street. Stack brush with the cut ends facing the same direction.

Keep brush at least 4 feet away from trees, cars, utility poles, mailboxes, fire hydrants, and other obstructions.

Do not put brush in the street or on the sidewalk.

Do not mix brush and yard waste together.  Brush mixed with weeds, grass clippings, and other yard waste will not be picked up.

Do not put brush in bags, boxes, or other containers.

The dates on the website are when you put out your brush.

These are not the dates when crews will be at your home to pick it up.

Collection crews come by during the work week following your set out date.

If you put your brush out after the set the out date for your home, you may miss your collection chance for this round.