Fall is fast approaching, and with it, the time when many families head into the yard armed with rakes, leaf blowers and garbage bags. But agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaves piling up on the lawn? Here's why you don't want too many leaves on your turf. Getty Images As the season shifts from ...

First, the most obvious reason: Raking leaves into plastic garbage bags and sending them to a landfill creates huge amounts of unnecessary waste. It also contributes to releasing greenhouse gases that ...