I attended your course on Jan. 26/01 and found it to be very informative and valuable. We are interested in encouraging our community to do more home compost-ing and mulching of leaves and/or utilizing paper bags during our Leaf Collection Program. We pre-sently collect only loose leaves and leaves packaged in paper bags during our program. We also operate eight drop-off sites. The program is six weeks in duration with bi-weekly collec-tion. Many homeowners opt for raking leaves to curbside and we would like to encourage them to use the alternatives.