Dearborn Leaf Collection Begins Oct. 24
Dearborn is asking residents to rake loose leaves into the street the day before your trash day/Public Service Days for pickup beginning the week of Oct. 24.
It’s that time of year again. Collection of loose leaves raked into the streets is scheduled to begin the week of Oct. 24 and end on Friday, Dec. 2, depending on the weather.
To make it easier for crews to pick up the leaves and to keep the streets safer, residents are encouraged to rake leaves into the street only on the day before their neighborhood’s Public Service Days.
Public Service Days are the same as trash collection days.
Vehicles must be removed from streets on these days from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contractors paid by residents to rake leaves must follow the same guideline and should not rake leaves into the street until the day before the appropriate Public Service Day.
Below are the rules as outlined by the City of Dearborn:
For example, if your trash day/Public Service Day is on a Monday, you should try to rake your leaves into the street on a Sunday. If your trash day/Public Service Day is on a Wednesday, you should try to rake your leaves on Tuesday.
Due to the volume and size of Public Service Day districts, crews may not be able to pick up all the loose leaves in a neighborhood on the designated Public Service Day/trash collection day.
City crews will return to the area the next week on Public Service Day, starting where they ended with the previous collection. For example, if your trash day/Public Service Day is on a Tuesday, crews will be collecting leaves on a Tuesday and then return the following Tuesday to continue in your neighborhood.
For a weekly leaf collection schedule, call the Leaf Hotline at 943-2444.
Avoid raking leaves into the street too early, as leaves left to pile up in the street for days before scheduled collection can present traffic and safety hazards.
Preferred method: Bag leaves for curbside pickup every week
Leaves also can be disposed of by putting them in 20-32 gallon containers marked “Yard Waste” or in paper landscape bags for curbside pickup on regular trash collection days every week until Dec. 16.
Bagging them or putting them in the proper containers on the curb will ensure that they are picked up every week on your trash day. In contrast, loose leaves raked into the street in front of your house are only picked up as crews can get to them.
The City’s curbside yard waste collection program ends on Dec. 16.
Yard waste stickers to mark your containers are available at City Hall. Paper yard waste bags do not need stickers.
Leaves in plastic bags or in cardboard boxes will not be picked up.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
sorry, but, this is the dumbest thing ever. Raking leaves into the street, people park on them, it rains, they get all spread out, they don’t come on the day they’re supposed to ending up in a big chronic seasonal mess. It all costs money, money that the city would be better off spending on things like keeping libraries open. For goodness sake, shredding leaves and using it for mulch isn’t that hard. or bagging them up if you have a lot of them.
October 16th, 2011 at 9:59 am
It’s not autumn until we have the annual leaf debate…..Can we sum it up??
Too costly….
Too messy…..
Not effective…..
And on the other side:
Another service we can’t live without….
Separates us from “lesser” inner-ring suburbs….
I don’t like change….
Back when Hubbard was mayor…….
October 22nd, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Leaves are a gift from nature providing free mulch and fertilizer for our gardens and lawns. Mulch them into your lawn when you cut. Compost them. Shred them and add to your garden beds. You’ll have the healthiest soil and plants in the neighborhood!