Dearborn Curbside Leaf Collection Begins Oct. 22
Dearborn will start its annual collection of leaves raked into the street on Monday, Oct. 22.
Dearborn will start its annual collection of leaves raked into the street on Monday, Oct. 22 and will continue the program until Friday, Dec. 7, weather permitting.
Leaves raked into the street will be picked up on a neighborhood’s trash day, on the week that is not a recycling week.
Dearborn officials are reminding residents that crews will not always be able to pick up leaves from an entire district in one trash day. When that happens, crews will return where they left off during that district’s next trash day that is not on a recycling week.
Crews expect to be in every district collecting leaves raked into the street at least two times during the fall season.
For safety reasons, don’t rake your leaves into the street until it is close to the time when they will be picked up. Leaves that linger in the street can cause slippery conditions, or lead to car fires.
For a weekly leaf collection schedule, call the Leaf Hotline at 943-2444.
Dearborn residents are reminded about the preferred method to ensure your leaves are picked up promptly.
Jim Murray, the director of the Department of Public Works, says residents should put leaves in yard waste paper bags or 20-32 gallon containers with a City yard waste sticker and set them at your curbside every week on trash day.
Place the bags or containers on your easement by 7 a.m. on your trash day each week. They will be picked up that same day with your trash, recyclables and other yard waste, such as grass clippings.
Yard waste stickers are available at City Hall and Dearborn libraries.
Leaves in plastic bags or in cardboard boxes will not be picked up.
October 26th, 2012 at 2:11 am
Great, another poor job by city workers. Looks like a bomb of leaves went off after they get done. All they do is spread the leaves out, they don’t actually pick them up. Looks better before they come into get them. What a joke.
October 27th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Bulk pick-up. Be lucky you don’t live in a city in which you would have to bag EVERYTHING. Enjoy the service as much as possible. Oh, you are one of those that thinks that the workers should get out and pick up EVERY leaf. Be lucky the city is even still doing this to help you and many others out…
October 29th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Leaves are a gift from nature and one of the greatest ways to enrich the soil of your lawn and garden. On your lawn, mow right over the leaves, without the mower bag attachment, and grind them into fine mulch. For your garden beds, use the lawnmower bag attachment to collect the ground up leaves and use to mulch your beds. You’ll have the best soil ever.
October 30th, 2012 at 11:11 am
or put them in a compost bin. they will cook down over the winter
October 31st, 2012 at 10:36 am
There’s usually at least one good, sopping wet rain in the Fall that turns those leaves into nothing but a big pile of sludge. I raked my leaves into the street once and that was it. My neighbor continued to do it though. After that sweeper came by it smeared a ton of that sludge in front of my house (that was already cleaned for the season). I counted 6 plastic bags of SLUDGE that I had to bag and put to the curb anyway. I had to use a shovel. Ever see the leaf trucks going down Outer Drive towards the Southfield Freeway? They’re not covered and the leaves they do pick up are blowing out all over the road anyway. I’ll bet 50% of them make it to their destination.
October 31st, 2012 at 10:51 am
THANK YOU! People are afraid to do that. I personally don’t do it because I’m a little cheap to go out and get a mulching blade for the mower but it’s a very good idea that more people should actually do.