Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner is working with the Irvington Love Em & Leave Em initiative –trying to encourage residents to leave their leaves in place. Saves money and is good for the lawns. Greenburgh would save a few hundred thousand dollars a year if everyone cooperated.
How can we encourage everyone to cooperate? The Supervisor is working on a marketing campaign with the Nature Center. We will organize a student competition. THe winning design will be placed on posters–to be placed on municipal trucks.
Hauling all your leaves and yard debris away from your property is insane!
What we refer to yard debris is really nutrition for your yard!
Mulching in place and composting has numerous benefits:
financial
saves you money on fertilizers and mulch
saves your village money on carting and handling fees
environmental
reduces carbon emissions from trucking your stuff away plus trucking bags of fertilizer & mulch to you, not to mention the emissions produced in producing & packaging mulch & fertilizer!
These are just a sampling of the benefits.
To learn more, check out Irvington’s Love ‘em & Leave ‘em campaign online:
