Recycle Your Christmas Tree This Week
Jan 4, 2010 16:09 - 5 Comments
You probably figured this out, but just in case: Make sure you put your Christmas tree (if you have one) out by the curb with your regular trash this week! You’ll need to take everything off of it (including tinsel). Oh, and don’t bag it.Here’s the >full rundown from the City of Rockville:
Rockville’s Department of Public Works will collect Christmas trees as part of its regular recycling collection. The trees will be taken to the Montgomery County Recycling Center, where they will become mulch.
Residents should place cut trees at the curb for pick up on regular recycling days, and they should also remove all ornaments and metals, wires, stands and decorations, including tinsel. Trees should not be bagged.
The City will also collect artificial trees that are no longer wanted. Since these trees are not recyclable, residents seeking to dispose of an artificial tree should dismantle it and place the pieces in their gray refuse cart.
For more information on recycling and refuse service, or Christmas tree collection, call 240-314-8568.
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It’s not just this week! Christmas trees can be placed on the curb on your regular recycling day throughout the month of January. As today is the last day of Christmas, I’m sure many readers, like myself, still have their Christmas trees up.
Cindy – You point out correctly that the Christmas tree set out is not just this week,but it can be done throughout the month of January. Since our new program accepts trees up to 8 feet long and 2 feet diameter as part of the normal weekly yard waste collection, residents can put trees out any time of year. Therefore, Christmas trees don’t have to go out in January. They can be put out in February, March or July, if that is possible.Craig SimoneauDirector of Public Works
Thanks for the corrections. Might want to update the City’s press release so it is clear that the Christmas tree pickup is not a special event . . . it’s ambiguous in the release!
Thanks Craig! When I was writing my comment I pictured the truck with the claw and thought about how large limbs and such could be collected all year. Glad you have clarified. I think more than 3 weeks for a Christmas tree is a fire hazard!
Ours has been out for two trash days and hasn’t been picked up. All our neighbors’ trees got taken