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June 25, 2007 by Rich Whittle | 1 Comment

Associated Press:

Grass clippings in summer and fallen leaves in the fall are just two kinds of garden detritus that have to be wrestled into yard bags en route to disposal. The Yard Bag Chute is designed to make lawn and garden cleanup easier.

The Yard Bag Chute is a corrugated plastic insert-liner for paper yard-waste bags. Many local municipalities across the country require yard refuse to be placed in paper biodegradable yard bags for pickup. But the bags can tear or be difficult for one person to handle.

“Mowing the lawn and trying to fill those bags was terrible,” the Yard Bag Chute’s designer and inventor Bart Mulle said.

The rigid, 36-inch-high Yard Bag Chute is designed to keep the paper bag open while it’s being filled with grass clippings, and to prevent the paper bag from being torn when twigs and branches are pushed into it.

When the chute is full, it’s pulled out of the paper bag using its two hand holes, leaving the waste in the bag. It fits standard yard bags, and after use can be collapsed flat for easy storage. It weighs less than 2 pounds, Mulle said.

Photo by YardBagChute.com.

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