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What To Do With That Christmas Tree? Consider Recycling

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What To Do With That Christmas Tree? Consider Recycling
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Below is information for Los Angeles and San Diego for Tree Recycling.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – OK, Christmas is over. So what do you do with that Christmas tree?

The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation and Environment’s Christmas Tree Recycling Program is ready to help.

The bureau provides “environmentally friendly” options for recycling holiday trees, and it receives between 90,000 to 100,000 trees annually. The trees are turned into mulch rather than dumped into a landfill, and the compost is made available to residents and city operations.

The tree recycling options are:
— Green Bins. Residents must remove decorations and the stand, cut the tree into pieces if needed and place the materials in a green yard trimming bin for weekly collection.
— Curbside. Residents who are unable to cut and place in their green bin may leave their tree at the curb for weekly collection.
— Drop-off locations, which will be open at 13 Los Angeles Fire Department stations and six Recreation and Parks sites from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 5, and the Lopez Canyon Environmental Education Center or Harbor Sanitation District Yard on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A complete list of locations with detailed drop-off dates and times can be found at www.lacitysan.org or by calling the LASAN Customer Care Center, 800-773-2489.

Residents of multifamily buildings can also place their Christmas trees curbside on collection day.

In addition to Christmas trees, holiday wrapping paper, cartons, cardboard, Styrofoam and other expanded polystyrene products, plastics and gift boxes are also recyclable and should be placed in the blue bin, according to sanitation officials.

It is illegal to place household hazardous waste, such as electronics and batteries, into the collection bins. Those items can be dropped off at one of seven S.A.F.E. Centers for safe disposal and recycling, which can be found on the LASAN website.

The tree recycling program lasts until about mid-January, according to the LASAN website.

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The city’s 46th annual Christmas tree recycling program will begin today, with 17 drop-off locations located throughout the San Diego area.

We encourage residents to bring their clean, undecorated Christmas trees to any of our 17 drop-off locations within the city,” said Gene Matter, interim director of the Environmental Services Department. Recycling these trees helps us reduce the amount of waste going into the Miramar Landfill, and helps the city meet its sustainability goals by converting the trees into high-quality mulch and compost that city residents can pick up for free at the Miramar Greenery.”

The drop-off locations are:
— Carmel Valley Recreation Center, 3777 Townsgate Drive, lower
parking lot;
— Encanto, Cielo Drive at Woodman Street;
— Golden Hill Recreation Center, 2600 Golf Course Drive;
— La Jolla, Kate Sessions Memorial Park, corner of Mt. Soledad Road
and Loring Street;
— The Greenery at the Miramar Landfill, 5180 Convoy St.;
— Logan Heights, Memorial Recreation Center, 2902 Marcy Ave.;
— Mission Bay, Seaworld Drive at Pacific Highway;
— Mountain View, Ocean View Boulevard at 40th Street (north side);
— Oak Park, Chollas Lake, 6350 College Grove Drive, in Gloria’s Mesa
parking lot;
— Ocean Beach, Robb Field Recreation Center, 2525 Bacon St.;
— Otay Mesa/Nestor, Montgomery Waller Community Park, lower parking
lot on the southeast corner of Palm Avenue and Beyer Boulevard;
— Rancho Bernardo Recreation Center, 18448 W. Bernardo Drive;
— Rancho Penasquitos, Canyonside Recreation Center, 12350 Black
Mountain Road;
— San Diego State University, Parking Lot 17C off of Alvarado Road;
— Scripps Ranch Recreation Center, 11454 Blue Cypress Drive;
— Tierrasanta, De Portola Middle School, 11010 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.; and
— University City, Swanson Pool, 3585 Governor Drive.

Both green and flocked trees are accepted. All tree stands, bags, netting, lights, ornaments, tinsel and other decorations must be removed. No artificial trees will be accepted.

Residents are warned not to illegally leave any other items at the drop-off locations.

The recyling program, which is for city residents only, will run until Jan. 23.

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