Gardening
November 7, 2007
Closing Bell: Time to Brown-Bag Your Leaves
If you try to dispose of your leaves in a regular plastic garbage bag in the month of November, you might get hit with a ticket from the Department of Sanitation. During prime leaf season, property owners are required to use paper lawn and leaf bags that can be found at many local supermarkets and home stores like Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe's and True Value. And, believe it or not, there's method to the madness: Using the paper bags to throw out the leaves enables the city to turn the leaves into compost—which it turns around and gives back come springtime. For residents of community districts 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, there are two dates to set the leaves out: November 10 and November 24.
Fall Leaf Collection Program [NYC.gov]