Leaf Collectors

During the last quarter of the year, we temporarily place leaf baskets in 70 locations throughout the municipality, in places where leaves fall heavily. You can lend a hand in cleaning up leaves that fall in the public area. 

Only leaves in the baskets!

Leaf baskets are for leaf litter only. Leaf boxes are emptied with a suction device that sucks up only leaves. If plants, prunings or branches end up in it, it damages the machine. Rubbish other than leaves will be removed. 

The leaf baskets will be cleared again at the end of December. Once the leaf basket is gone, leaf litter may no longer be left in these areas. 

Leaf Compost

We store the leaves collected in the baskets to create leaf compost. In the spring, we use the leaf compost for the green spaces and borders.

Leaf blowers

Not all streets have leaf baskets, but we will remove leaves in all streets.

If the weather permits and the leaves are dry, the neighborhood teams will start using leaf blowers to remove leaves from the streets neighborhood by neighborhood.

• In most places, we blow leaves to the middle of the streets, then vacuum them up.
• In places where it is possible, we blow the leaves back into the green spaces. The leaves provide direct nutrition for the green spaces

The teams will be everywhere. We ask for your understanding that the neighborhood teams cannot be everywhere at once.