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Leave your leaves here: Leaf drive underway in Juneau

Published 3:00 am Thursday, September 26, 2019

By Michael Penn

Lisa Daugherty, owner of Juneau Composts!, spreads out newly-collected food waste and compostable material at her half-acre site in Lemon Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. Daugherty is offering to take home owners’ leaves this fall. Daugherty has put up signs where to deposit leaves, but not plastic bags, at her business on Ralph’s Way. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Lisa Daugherty, owner of Juneau Composts!, spreads out newly-collected food waste and compostable material at her half-acre site in Lemon Creek on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. Daugherty is offering to take home owners’ leaves this fall. Daugherty has put up signs where to deposit leaves, but not plastic bags, at her business on Ralph’s Way. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Need a place to leave your leaves?

Rather than just throwing leaves away in plastic bags destined for the landfill, Lisa Daughterty of Juneau Composts! is offering an alternative.

It’s the third year in a row Daughterty is hosting a leaf drive, accepting leaves that will then be used in composting.

Find out more information about the leaf drive — including where to drop off leaves — by watching the video above.

• Contact staff photographer Michael Penn at 523-2262 and mpenn@juneauempire.com. Follow our Instagram at @Juneau.Life.

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