Westchester Officials Suggest Pulverizing, Not Piling Leaves

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. With many Westchester County municipalities looking to trim every penny from their budgets as expenditures continue to rapidly rise, local officials are moving away from traditional leaf collection models and encouraging homeowners to try something more different, and environmentally friendly. In the past, when autumn came and leaves rained down on local lawns, many homeowners had the option of bagging their leaves, having their contractors take care of them or raking the leaves onto a pile at property lines for Department of Public Works crews to collect on the municipalities' dimes.

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