Our area we aren't supposed to burn them because of people with allergies/athsma but people do anyways. I personally hate leaves burning, most people here don't watch the piles, I don't like the smell and it just irritates my athsma if I go out when they're burning.

We aren't supposed to rake them into the street either because our street sweeper isn't equiped for taking care of large amounts of leaves. But people do it anyways then the street sweeper has to go around them and the wet pile sits there forever before they blow away or disinegrate.

We're supposed to put them in brown leaf bags out to the curb with the tops left open and separate from garbage pick up spot. They get picked up at least once a week, but if there are alot of houses with bags out they come more often.

We only have one bona fide tree on our own property however our neighbors nearby all have large maple trees that are late to shed leaves and they all go in our yard! We still haven't gotten out to take care of them yet because they aren't done shedding. When we do get out there I'm thinking it's like 15 bags we put out which stinks when we only have one tree!