This material can be used for landscaping and enriching your flower beds and shrubs. To make sure your yard material can be composted, it's important how you set it out. It is best to place clean unbagged piles of leaves on the street curb unless your community provides a special reusable or compostable container for you to use. Even placing leaves neatly in plastic bags decreases the chance of them going to a compost site. Plastic from the bags gets shredded in the equipment thus leaving small pieces of plastic in the compost.
People often put furniture, broken toys, flower pots, etc.
This makes the whole pile unacceptable for composting. Anything in the leaf pile, besides leaves and yard trimmings, ruins the pile for composting. Backyard Composting Backyard composting is often the most economical way to manage yard trimmings and other organics. Over 30 percent of total residential waste can be diverted from landfills simply by composting kitchen scraps and yard debris. The average amount of material diverted per year by each household that composts is 650 pounds .