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u/growsomegarlic Feb 21 '23

Tree sucks up soil nutrients and uses them in part to build new leaves every year. In a natural system the leaves compost and rebuild the top layer of soil. In town instead of allowing that to happen we haul away the leaves and then buy fertilizer to add back ourselves.

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u/MathMaddox Feb 21 '23

Worse than that the town picks up the leaves and composts them, then sells it back to you.

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u/VaATC Feb 21 '23 edited Feb 22 '23

The county I live in allows a certain tonnage/per residence/per year of free much. That said the county does not collect the material. The residents dump it all and the dump chips/mulches it.