The Greenburgh Town Board is planning on eliminating leaf pickup next fall. Eliminating the unbagged leaf pickup will save the town a lot of money but residents will incur the cost of buying leaf bags and paying for the removal of the leaves from their lawn. Homeowners in Edgemont already pay higher taxes than other residents in Greenburgh. Don't you think our taxes should cover the leaf pickup?
Let's forget about the money. What is not being discussed is the environmental impact. What about the waste of paper in making individual homeowners bag all their leaves? The average home will use at least twenty bags.
This makes me angry. I decided to make a trip to Home Depot. I weighed twenty empty refuse bags and found them to weigh 12 pounds.
According to the 2010 census, Edgemont has 7,116 residents. If the town board has its way, there will be over 60,000 pounds of paper waste dumped in the landfill. Is this how much our town cares about its environmental impact? The first Earth Day was 43 years ago. Does the Town Board know that or care ?
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