Photo by Lee Brozgol.
You can drop off your tree at numerous locations across the city from January 4-12. Here on the Lower East Side, your best bet is Corlears Hook Park or Tompkins Square Park. On January 11 and 12, you can bring your tree to Tompkins for on-the-spot chipping (you’ll be able to keep some of the mulch). The wood chips created by the program are used in parks and gardens across the city. Also, the NYC Department of Sanitation is offering special curbside collection through January 15. Click here for more info.
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The holiday season has come and gone - although January is trying to remind us of it all thanks to Snowmageddon 2021. I ve already recycled my Christmas tree, but if yours is still there - maybe you ve just been too tired to take it down - let me be the first to tell you the way NOT to dispose of it.
Come with me on a little trip to McKinney, TX. A Texas family decided that they were done with their Christmas tree and that the best way to dispose of it was in the fireplace.
So maybe you re thinking, Wood burns, so why is this a bad idea? .
Longfield Hospice has cancelled their annual Christmas tree collection as a result of the latest lockdown. The annual fundraiser, which has raised more than £20,000 in previous years, was due to take place from January 10-12. Refunds are available for people who arranged for their tree to be collected, but the hospice is asking people not to claim them due to the unprecedented circumstances which led to the cancellation. A post on the Longfield website said: Despite the extensive efforts made by our team to ensure that all risk assessments were updated and risks mitigated where possible, we feel the overall risk to the health of the 150 plus volunteers and staff who would have been supporting this initiative, and to the local communities where they would be actively collecting, was too great.
Chicago Christmas tree recycling offered at 25 locations around city
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CHICAGO (WLS) Don t throw away that Christmas tree!
The City of Chicago s annual holiday tree recycling program offers free tree recycling at 25 locations throughout the city.
The program runs Saturday, Jan. 9 through Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.
All you have to do is drop your tree off at any of the locations to be recycled. Only live or natural trees are accepted; no garlands and wreaths. All tinsel, ornaments, lights and stands must be removed. Plastic bags used for transporting the tree should also be removed before putting the trees in their recycling stalls.