https://www.wisn.com/amp/artic...

Two Maryland counties do similar and call it Leafgro

It seems so absurd... all these people raking up those leaves and throwing them away...

I did a bit of work on an old town lot... where they'd been gardening for hundred(s) of years...

All that time, throwing away all the valuable organic material... big patches of bare soil where nothing grew!

Insane!

If I'd been gardening there, adding soil amendments each year? Woulda been very different.

If you can't persuade people to compost on site, at least this keeps it out of landfill.

Curious how the city or county picks up all the material, but it is sold by a private company? Being a person who picks up that material myself for my own use, I would hate to see that happen in my community. Does the private company just make a deal with the mayor or city council to take all the material for free and the city does not have to provide a land fill for it? Does the city or county get revenue from the sales?

Ours is a not for profit public corporation

It took me some hunting but I did find the product for sale in Howard county at $24.00 per cubic yard as compost. That sounds pretty reasonable to me.