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Find autumn bulk leaf collection days

We collect autumn leaves along selected streets in the City of Boroondara from April to July. We select these streets based on the size, species​ and number of trees on the streets.

Our leaf collection starts at a different time each year, depending on weather patterns and when different species of trees drop their leaves.

This service replaces regular residential street sweeping from April to June. In July, both services run. You can find out more about our regular street sweeping on our Find your street sweeping days page.

Please enter a valid Boroondara address.

How you can help us with leaf collection

  • Avoid parking on the street on your sweeping days.
  • If you can't move your vehicle, you can help by sweeping leaves from under parked vehicles the night before. Please remove any sticks, branches and rocks as they will damage the machinery.
  • Don't rake or blow grass clippings or leaves onto the road after the sweeper has passed by.
Our trees are beautiful but heavy leaf fall can have quite an impact on our streets.
Step 1: Council contractors blow the leaves off the nature strips and out of accessible gutters to prepare for collection.
Leaves are now ready for collection by the truck.
Step 2: If there is a high volume of leaves on the street, a leaf loader collects the leaves...
...and loads them into a truck.
This is a street after the leaf loader has collected the bulk of leaves, but we're not finished yet!
Step 3: The remaining accessible leaves are swept up by the street sweeper, leaving the street clear of most leaves...
...until next autumn.

We don't sweep or collect leaves from your garden.

Leaves from your garden and any leftover leaves can be:

  • put in your food organics and garden organics (FOGO) bin
  • composted.

More information

For more information or a printed copy of a street's schedule, call us on (03) 9278 4444.

You can find out what garden waste can go in your FOGO bin on our How to use your bins page. Or you find out more about composting and how to get a compost bin on Composting page.

For information on how we maintain roads in Boroondara visit Road maintenance page.

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