November 9, leaf removal

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Ann Arbor picks up the leaves, composts them, and sells the compost.

First a street sweeper pushes the leaves into a big pile.





A *big* pile.

This is taller than I am...........





Then a front-end loader picks them up and puts them in a garbage truck (which can compact them and haul them to the now-covered-over land fill, where they will be composted).

Three guys and some technology (and burnt fossil fuel) can move a LOT of leaves in not very much time.





I was impressed by how few leaves went onto the street rather than into the garbage truck. It helped that it was not very windy.













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