Lots of leaves raked up on the riverbank ready for collecting, I've always mowed them up in the past but was stopped by the environment agency man who lives in the village and told me to cease and desist with the mower 😢😢. I know him well and he's a customer but says it got back to some pen pusher and they aren't happy (thinks someone has reported me).
Dear @Wilderbeast - are you mowing the whole village?
In the Very Grand Scheme of Things I suppose that as the leaves that fall don't leave the planet they aren't 'wasted'. Burning them on bonfires or in waste incinerators seems wasteful though. And they can clog up drainage gullies and overflow systems, causing flooding of homes and property. If I didn't remove the carpets of leaves from under my trees in grass, and no strong winds shifted them, they would weaken the grass, leaving it open to erosion. Just recently the stream that runs by my property has carried a constant flow of leaves, mesmerising to watch, surely headed down to the estuary eventually or washed up against hedges and fences in floods, where they'll break down and add to the soil, or be dredged out of ditches.
I get @MikeOxgreen's point about weight! My bulk bags originally contained blue granite gravel, and I would think a bagful of that is heavier than a bagful of wet leaves. I've filled one with dry beech leaves and was surprised to find it too heavy for me to drag but I'm a not very strong 5ft female in receipt of the state pension. They do compress as they're added over a couple of weeks though, even when dry.
I measure my compost output in Lts rather than weight, as such each bin when full of fully composted and settled materials is 1500lts.
That sounds better @Wilderbeast, as you can measure against bags of commercially sold compost etc. I tend to think of it vaguely in wheelbarrow loads, but a load depends on how I'm feeling on the day!
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Dear @Wilderbeast - are you mowing the whole village?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Just recently the stream that runs by my property has carried a constant flow of leaves, mesmerising to watch, surely headed down to the estuary eventually or washed up against hedges and fences in floods, where they'll break down and add to the soil, or be dredged out of ditches.
I get @MikeOxgreen's point about weight! My bulk bags originally contained blue granite gravel, and I would think a bagful of that is heavier than a bagful of wet leaves. I've filled one with dry beech leaves and was surprised to find it too heavy for me to drag but I'm a not very strong 5ft female in receipt of the state pension. They do compress as they're added over a couple of weeks though, even when dry.
A tonne bag full isn't always a tonne weight.
I tend to think of it vaguely in wheelbarrow loads, but a load depends on how I'm feeling on the day!