SCHEDULE

• FALL LEAF COLLECTIONS – October 1 through December 31
• City-wide collections begin Oct. 1 and run through Dec. 31, weather permitting.
• Snow and ice can halt the collection program.
• Notification cards are sent in September and list your October, November and December pick-up dates; the schedule is also available on the City’s web site: www.cityofladue-mo.gov.
• Leaves should be set out no more than 10 days prior to your scheduled pick-up.
• If you have leaves that need collection in January, February and March (after your December City collection and before your April City collection), please make arrangements for a private lawn/landscape service to remove and dispose of them.

• SPRING LEAF COLLECTION is in April.
• You will have only one City collection in April and no notification cards are sent out.
• The April schedule will run the same as the fall collection – Example: If your fall pickup was the 3rd week of the month, your spring pick-up will be the 3rd week of April.
• Leaves should be set out no more than 10 days prior to your scheduled pick-up.
• If you have leaves that need collection after your April City collection takes place, please make arrangements for a private lawn/landscape service to remove and dispose of them.

LOOSE LEAVES ONLY ARE COLLECTED.

• No bagged leaves are accepted.
• Leaf piles must NOT contain brush, hedge clippings, sweet gum balls, vines, grass clippings, trash, garbage or metal objects because these materials damage equipment and cause breakdowns.
• Mixed piles of leaves and brush cannot be collected.
• Please do NOT mix loose leaves & brush together because each of these materials requires different equipment for collection, and brush will NOT be collected during times when leaves are being picked up.
• Brush must be separated from the leaves before the City will collect the leaves.
• TRASH HAULERS will accept biodegradable PAPER bags containing: grass, hedge clippings, weeds, flowers, plants, vines, sweet gumballs.
• Please contact your local trash hauler.

PLACEMENT OF LEAVES FOR COLLECTION (City Ordinances 1288 and 1442)

• Leaf piles must be less than 6’ in height.
• Leaves should be piled on your property, raked off the road & spread out so that the back edge of the leaf pile is not more than 10’ from the edge of the roadway adjacent to your property.
• If your property abuts a public as well as a private road, leaves must be placed adjacent to the private road.
• Leaves must NOT be piled on top of a hill or embankment or behind or near obstacles such as hedges, trees, fences, mailboxes, poles.
• If your property can only be reached by a private driveway, the City will collect your leaves if your driveway can accommodate our equipment (which is 34’ long & 14’ high) & has an adequate turnaround area (either a circular drive or a square pad which is a minimum of 70’ X 70’.)
• If you wish us to come up your driveway, please contact the Public Works Dept. at 314-993-5665 for further information.
• Do NOT place leaf piles within 10’ of a neighbor’s property without his/her permission.

The City DOES NOT COLLECT grass, lawn/hedge clippings, sweet gum balls, refuse, trash, old appliances.

• Please make arrangements for disposal of these items.
• TRASH HAULERS will accept biodegradable PAPER bags containing: grass, hedge clippings, weeds, flowers, plants, vines, sweet gumballs.
• Please contract your local trash hauler.