What do you do together with your Christmas tree as soon as the vacation is over?
For these with synthetic timber, it’s as straightforward as sticking again within the closet. However should you took dwelling a pure Christmas tree this vacation season, Denver is opening recycling facilities throughout town to present these timber a second life — as mulch.
Starting Jan. 2, Denver residents can recycle their Christmas timber at 11 drop-off websites throughout town, so long as all decorations, lights and tree stands are eliminated first, in keeping with a Wednesday information launch from town.
On weekdays from Jan. 2 to Jan. 31, residents can recycle their timber on the Cherry Creek Switch Station (7301 E. Jewell Ave.), Havana Nursery (10450 Smith Highway) and Central Platte Campus (1271 W. Bayaud Ave.) from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For those who wait till Saturday, you’ll be able to select from eight areas, additionally open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.:
- Sloan’s Lake Northwest Parking Lot (West Byron Place and Yates Avenue)
- Bruce Randolph (East fortieth Avenue and Steele Avenue)
- Fred Thomas Park (2400 Quebec St.)
- Evie Dennis Faculty Campus (4800 Telluride St.)
- Central Platte Campus (1271 West Bayaud Ave.)
- Carson Elementary (5420 1st Ave.)
- Kennedy Excessive Faculty (Newland Avenue and Brown Place)
- Slavens Elementary (3000 South Clayton St.)
Timber dropped at Treecycle drop websites will likely be become mulch accessible to Denver residents free of charge on the metropolis’s annual Mulch Giveaway within the spring, the discharge said.
Residents who can’t make it to a drop web site can set their tree out for trash assortment on their massive merchandise pickup day, in keeping with the discharge. Timber ignored for big merchandise pickup won’t be become mulch.
Denver residents additionally nonetheless have just a few extra days to recycle damaged or burned-out vacation lights as they pull them down from their roofs and timber. Two facilities take them free of charge: the Cherry Creek Recycling Drop-Off and Blue Star Recyclers.
The Cherry Creek Recycling Drop-Off (South Quebec Avenue and East Cherry Creek South Drive) will likely be open till 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to three p.m. Saturday.
Blue Star Recyclers (953 Decatur St.) is closed by way of the brand new yr, however will reopen Jan. 2 for drop-off.
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