Middlifecrisis, you must be well old, as the only ones bothered about leaves are old people, seen loads of them brushing their leaves into the road,for someone else to collect.
Also when i rang our local council to ask for some brown bins for garden waste, they refused as we had a paid gardner, and they said he should takle care of them, she didnt explain what he was supposed to do with them.
Then one week he was off so did the job for him, and got told off by a neighbour for putting them in the general waste bulk bin, as there was nowhere else for them.