ICYMI: Cities must stop letting residents toss leaves on the road — via drivingdotca
Theoretically, you are given a date when collection crews will be coming to your area. You are asked to put your leaves to the curb no sooner than the beginning of that week. As I speak, in my ward, people have been dumping their leaves in the street for two weeks. Our collection date is scheduled for over three weeks from now. I have a huge pile in front of my house; I did not put them there, but I have a neighbour who plays out a cuckoo’s nest version of events.
In a resource-conscious world, we shouldn’t be wasting energy on dedicated mechanical leaf collection in the first place. They’re good for your garden. Too many leaves? Bag ‘em and they’ll be recycled. Inyou truck your own yard waste to designated landfill areas to be composted. Vancouver and Halifax send city crews to collect leaves that have fallen on the streets — not the leaves that collect on private residences. That is a reasonable use of tax dollars.
Garbage and recycling workers are faced with bins teetering on piles of leaves, or sometimes risk having to access them through piles of wet leaves. That’s not fair. Large quantities of leaves sitting for weeks on the road take up scarce parking space in many places.Weather is the ever-changing factor in the whole “leaf on the street” equation. If an early snow or freezing rain hits, all bets are off. Municipalities will cancel collection, and ask that you bag them after all.
If you are allowed by your municipality to dump your leaves in the road, you’re not supposed to put anything but leaves in that mound. Take a look next time you’re out: sticks, branches, and dead flowers. In my area, the walnuts fall first, meaning the walnuts in the photo of this main thoroughfare will soon be covered with a tower of leaves, like a thousand little landmines. After Halloween, look out for jack-o-lanterns.
Leaf collection is a first-world problem if there ever was one. But making our unsafe streets even more dangerous for vulnerable road users is a non-starter. Don’t throw or blow your leaves onto public roadways. Councillors, make your residents responsible for their properties. Throwing things in the street simply isn’t fair to everyone else.Share this article in your social network
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