However, our field staff reports that they are seeing "pumpkin bags" set out at the curb, filled with leaves for yard trim collection.
Oops! We'll gladly pick up your bagged leaves... as long as the bag is paper.
What's wrong with plastic bags? The leaves we collect go to our Montgomery County Compost Facility. As machinery turns the compost piles, it grinds up material, including the plastic bags. The resulting plastic snippets are a tremendous problem. Not only do they blow around the facility, but they also need to be fished out of the finished compost.
So, if you use "pumpkin bags" to contain items for collection, please use them for your trash rather than for your leaves.
