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City of Milwaukee residents can rake leaves into the street from October 1st through November 15th for pickup by City crews. After November 15th leaves can be taken to a City self help center. City crews will wrap up leaf collection efforts the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Residents are asked
to rake their leaves into the street at the curb for collection by Department of Public
Works Sanitation Division crews. After November 15th, sanitation crews will still pick up remaining leaf
piles as long as weather permits. If you still have leaves not yet raked into the road, you must bag them and take them to a
self-help center for disposal.
For more information, the DPW CallCenter is available during business days from 7:00am to 5:00pm at
(414) 286-CITY (2489) You can always make other special pickup requests online, at any time of day, using DPW's
online service request form.
Sanitation Services urges residents to do the following:
- Do not put leaves in plastic bags
- Put Halloween pumpkins in your green garbage cart or on a
compost pile, not on leaf piles in the street.
- Please keep debris, such as flowers and vegetable plants on
top of your leaf piles at the curb
- Do not put brush in the leaf piles
- Keep piles away from sewer grates
- Keep debris away from storm drains in the street.
- Do not put plastic bags of leaves in the street. Empty them
and put the empty plastic bags in the garbage. The leaves
collected by the city are composted but plastic bags will not
decompose.
- Large amounts of branches should be piled away from
overhanging trees. Call (414) 286-CITY (2489) for a
special brush pickup or
fill out form here.
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