Loose Leaf Calculations

While these numbers are certainly guesstimates, they are probably in the right order of magnitude: approximately four to ten billion pounds of leaves fall off trees in New Jersey each year, and perhaps 600 million pounds of these leaves are collected and composted; New Jersey strictly bans throwing out leaves with regular trash (which I did not know, and I threw a wet bag of leaves into my trash bin this morning because I thought the bag might tear at the bottom because of all the rain and spill all the leaves back on my lawn—luckily, I'm pretty sure ignorance of this ordinance might be a valid excuse, in this particular case—and if it's not, well, everything on this blog is fictitious anyway, because-- full disclosure-- I'm a talking horse and can't be fined by the human court of law).