Those large, loud vacuum trucks currently roaming the streets of Montgomery County collecting residents’ leaves are part of a process to create compost that the county sells at local stores including Home Depot and Lowe’s.
Montgomery County Department of Transportation collects the leaves that are raked onto curbs. Those leaves are stored for one year before they are mulched and composted.
The results are then packaged at the Montgomery County Yard Trim Composting Facility in Dickerson with the label Leafgro. Leafgro is then sold to landscapers and homeowners for soil improvement.
The composting program includes the collected leaves as well as the grass gathered at single family homes.
The composting facility has a capacity of 77,000 tons of material per year.
#DidYouKnow 🍂Leaves🍂collected during MCDOT's leaf collection program are stored for a year, then mulched and composted?
The final product is then packaged and sold as Leafgro® at local stores in @MontgomeryCoMD.
Details about Leafgro® ▶️https://t.co/jaOBL0v5be @MyGreenMC pic.twitter.com/Tq7ajSUeXQ— MCDOT (@MCDOTNow) November 8, 2023
