Recycle your Christmas tree into mulch

If your Christmas tree has lost most of its just-bought freshness, it's time to recycle it. (Photo courtesy The Plant Foundry)

Sacramento area offers several drop-off spots

Is your Christmas tree ready to be recycled?

Depending on freshness and other conditions, cut trees can dry out in a hurry, becoming more fire danger than decoration. If your fir is shedding needles in abundance, it's time for it to move on.

Sacramento offers tree recycling opportunities that turn discarded Christmas trees into wood mulch for city parks. SMUD also offers wood chips to its residential utility customers.

Make sure to remove all tinsel, stands and decorations. Sacramento's tree recycling program does accept flocked trees. 

Free drop-off is available at these sites and dates:

* Sacramento Recycling and Transfer Station, 8491 Fruitridge Road, Sacramento.
8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 26)-Jan. 5 (closed Sunday and Jan. 1)
 Directions: From Jackson Highway, go south on Florin Perkins Road, then right on Fruitridge Road.
* SMUD Corporation Yard, 6100 Folsom Blvd., Sacramento.
 8 a.m. -3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5
* North Area Recovery Station, 4450 Roseville Road, North Highlands. 
8 a.m.-6 p.m. Jan. 5 and 6
* Kiefer Landfill, 12701 Kiefer Blvd., Sloughhouse. 
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 5 and 6
* Elder Creek Recovery and Transfer, 8642 Elder Creek Road, Sacramento. 
8 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 5
For details on tree recycling and more information: https://bit.ly/2QFLBvY

-- Debbie Arrington

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