Philly Bagged Leaf Drive Kicks off Nov 8th

Yay for Philly!  Rather than letting leaves collect in drains and litter our streets, Philly is having a 6-week Philly Bagged Leaf Drive to collect & compost them to fertilize gardens & nourish trees. From November 8-December 17,  you can set out leaves on trash day to help Philadelphia’s foliage – saving time & labor costs.

How can you participate?  Here are the Collection Guidelines:

• ONLY use brown paper leaf bags, available at most hardware or home improvement stores
• Set your leaf bags next to trash & recyclables on your regular trash day
• Leaves in plastic bags will be collected as TRASH – not recycling (and that’s worse for landfills, fyi)
• DON’T mix trash or recyclables with leaves
• Use as many bags as needed
• Maximum 40 LBs per bag
• Mechanical leaf collection will NOT be available
• Set out no later than 7:00 AM on your collection day
• You can also drop off bagged leaves to a Sanitation Convenience Center

For more info, check Philadelphia Street’s bagged leaf drive website.

Happy raking & leaf collecting!

Posted by Julie