[Closed] Is this littering?

i wouldn't do it but I wouldn't get worked up about it either

Leaves are natural debris, however I wouldn't agree that a binbag full of leaves is acceptable to dump somewhere. The neighbour should have a "green" bin for that kind of stuff though?

It is literally [url= https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-leaf-litter-biodiversity/ ]littering[/url], but not technically illegal 🙂

Just wait until it snows.

You're going to lose your shit.

It goes everywhere.

Most of those leaves will now probably block the drains outside your house...

It goes everywhere.

But it's the same colour as the pavement!!

And it turns to water and evaporates.

Well, plastic bags full of dog sh*t hung from trees is apparently totally OK.

Lots of leaves together is called 'leaf litter'. So yes.

Lazy gardener, not very thoughtful either.

Don't get me started on snow, on my estate (on a hill) there are a small number of us who clear the roads first and then our drives, there are a larger number of people who clear their drives and pile snow up in 2 or 3ft high across the pavement, I'm alright Jack doesn't even start to cover it.

There again I've come to the conclusion a lot of people are thoughtless, lazy and / or selfish and I am not going to be able to change it so meh.

A leaf blower? Plant raping bitch. Doesn't she own a brush?

Doesn’t she own a brush

probably ... but does her gardener ....

flip side - are these her leaves or are they blown in from other locations .... perhaps returning them to their rightful owner 😉

Technically, I think moving anything onto the public highway that isn't licensed to be there is prohibited.

Even if you did a hole in the highway and water runs off the road and in to the hole, technically, you can't bail it back out onto the highway.

tbh ive started to do this. Im surrounded by trees and as such so many leaves i cant collect them all. i do have a green bin but it gets filled many times over and black plastic sacks start to mount up.

I now just blow them onto the road where the road sweeper gets them.

Yes i get dirty looks but i think it better than bagging them up.

So, these leaves?

They wouldn't be sycamore leaves by any chance?

I seem to remember that someone round there has a massive sycamore tree in their garden that they won't cut down.
I'd imagine that's doing a fair bit of littering into the neighbours gardens.

As trail rat suggests, the right thing for her to do is to return them to their rightful owner

Our neighbour has two massive beech trees in their front garden. Quite nice things, if way too big but we benefit from lots of leaves in our garden. I had a good stint earlier in the week collecting up 2 wheelie bins full. The following day said neighbour swept all his into 2 massive piles on the footpath outside his house. Kinda the autumn equivalent of piling snow up outside your drive. I have no idea what he thinks is going to happen to them but they're now just a soggy wet heap so they're not going to blow anywhere soon.

. I had a good stint earlier in the week collecting up 2 wheelie bins full. The following day said neighbour swept all his into 2 massive piles on the footpath outside his house.

I'd chuck my leaves onto that pile.

I’d chuck my leaves onto that pile.

That sounds like a metaphor... 😊

You’re going to lose your shit.

It goes everywhere.

Not if you wear bicycle clips

I now just blow them onto the road where the road sweeper gets them.

How often do they come round?

surely composting them is the right answer?

Yeah, leaf mould takes no time (well, a year) and it's awesome mulch.

Our neighbours tree sheds leaves in to our garden. We just leave (ha) them to rot. Circle of life innit.

Leaf blowers are ****ing ridiculous inventions.

Cobblers, leaf blowers are great, makes life easy removing leaves from your lawn and flower beds ready to be scooped up into the bin. The issue is dicks being dicks.

Just leave them where they are. They’re not doing any harm. Quite the opposite in fact. Putting leaves in a bin is just mental. Each to their own though

i have to move them somewhere. I cant drive onto the drive if i dont (theres that much)

Wait for the wind to do it or kick them. Kicking leaves is a simple pleasure. Really want to see a photo of your drive now. Leafmageddon

there's that much mulch)

FTFY

surely composting them is the right answer?

The perfect crime. But what in the next neighbour who moves in is just as bad?

Everyone does it round here but then all the leaves are from the street trees. Don’t if that makes a difference to the legalities.

You need to phone the police. Have you a pen? Here's the number - it's nine, double nine.

If I trim my hedge can I leave the bits on the path?

Just wait until it snows.

You’re going to lose your shit.

It goes everywhere.

2nd belly laugh of the day.

First was a prog about the American civil war and an incident when Sheridan's army was approaching what were the final days of Lee's army.

While going there a black lad was running towards them and was asked why he was running. The reply is a classic. "I'm running because I cannot fly" 😆

We have seversal large oak trees just behind out back garden so get deluged with leaf litter all year round. The shucks from the leaf buds followed by the pollen and the sap from aphids eating leaves, small branches from squirrel damage, acorns and masses of leaves.

Tried composting the oak leaves and ended up with 6 full composting bins in the first year before we started chucking them back over the fence into the strip of woodland from whence they came. After 3 years the leaves still hadn't composted properly and so they went over the fence too.

After 4 years I realised the leaves were piling up against the other side of the fence and climbed over to move them. There is a 4 foot drop behind the fence and the leaves were approaching the top of the fence so that is approximately a 10 foot deep pile of leaves. I spread them around the woodland more evenly but noticed that even the leaves at the bottom of the pile were not really rotting.

How long does an oak leave take to become compost?