2011 Monday Bagged Leaf Pick-Ups
BAGGED LEAF SEASON:
Monday, October 17, 2011 through Monday, January 30, 2012 with the exception of December 26, 2011, Christmas (observed), January 2, 2012 (New Year’s observed) and January 16, 2012, the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
BAGGED LEAF PICKUP:
Scheduled pickup: 20 bags of leaves from each address every Monday by calling 311 before Sunday at 10 p.m. for the next day collection. You can make multiple appointments up to two months prior to collection.
Regular pickup: 5 bags of leaves from each address every week on regular trash collection day.
With Monday collections and regular mixed refuse collections, the Bureau of Solid Waste will collect, in total, 25 bags of leaves per week per resident – A 25% increase from last year and a 150% increase from the year before!
Drop off: Drop off bagged leaves at five Bureau of Solid Waste locations:
Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.:
Quarantine Road Sanitary Landfill – 6100 Quarantine Road
Western Sanitation Yard - 701 Reedbird Avenue
Eastern Sanitation Yard - 6101 Bowleys Lane
Northwest Sanitation Yard - 2840 Sisson Street
Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.:
Northwest Transfer Station – 5030 Reisterstown Road
Residents need to put leaves in clear or labeled bags and not in the public right-of-way.
We gotta a lotta leaves!
We collect around 10,000 TONS of leaves every season!
The Bureau of Solid Waste takes yard waste. Please remember the following:
- Put your yard waste out on your trash collection day.
- Put it at the same place where you put out your trash.
- Put yard waste in plastic bags (preferably clear or labeled bags), paper bags, or bundle it.
- Do not put your bagged yard waste in the gutter or public right-of-way.
- We may not pick up all of your yard waste at one collection; please limit yard waste to 5 bags per collection.
- Do not put your yard waste too far into your yard; please put it at the end of your yard where our crews can have access.
- A locked gate and/or animal will prevent us from collecting your yard waste; please confine your pets on collection day.
- We do not take tree branches larger than 4 inches in diameter or longer than 3 feet.
- You can also take your yard waste to any Citizen Drop-off Center.