Christmas Tree Recycling

Recycle Your Christmas Tree This Year
Posted by mrode on Nov 15, 2014

Choosing a good old-fashioned live Christmas tree is the most sustainable way to celebrate our favorite holiday tradition. Real trees absorb carbon dioxide and emit fresh oxygen as they grow, and tree farms stabilize soil, protect water supplies, provide refuge for wildlife and employ thousands of workers.

After Christmas, Evergreen's Alliance for Sustainability + YOU (EAS+Y) arranges for FREE Christmas tree recycling at the Evergreen Lutheran Church on Hwy 73 (2 miles south of the stoplight in Evergreen) for two weeks after New Years. Lam Tree Service chips the trees and offers the mulch for FREE later that month. Trees may be dropped off between 9am-5pm on Jan. 3rd or Jan. 10th. Call 303-670-6385 with any questions.

New this year – curbside pickup!

If you live in north Evergreen, the Evergreen High School Instrumental Boosters will pick up your tree curbside and deliver it to the recycling site on Jan 10th in exchange for a free-will donation. The Boosters will pick up trees in the following neighborhoods:

Buffalo Park Road (from Highway 73 to Evergreen Heights)
El Pinal
Hiwan Country Club
Hiwan Hills
Island at Hiwan
Promontory
Ridge at Hiwan
Soda Creek
Tanoa
Trails at Hiwan
Troutdale
Wah-Keeney

Call 720-328-0396 with any questions about the curbside pickup.

Volunteers are needed for 2 hour shifts. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more info.

Our Indian Hills webcam host, Green Foothill Farm, would love to accept your Christmas trees to feed their goats! Call (303)736-2291 to arrange a drop-off!

From their Facebook page :

Howdy neighbors, our goats would LOVE to eat your Christmas trees when you're done with them!

Nevada goats help eat, recycle Christmas trees

If, after taking down your tree, you decide that you don't want your lights any longer, please consider donating them to Lights For Life, an organization that helps families who have kids with cancer. Moore Lumber & Ace Hardware are accepting donations on their behalf at both their Pine Junction and Bailey locations now through Feb 15.

See here for their post with more details: mymountaintown.com/forum/194-area-non-pr...s-to-lights-for-life

Thank you Moore Lumber!

Don't forget that tomorrow is the first drop-off date available for EAS+Y's Christmas Tree Recycling at Evergreen Lutheran Church.

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Following are several sites in Jefferson County:

• City of Golden: Trees will be accepted for recycling from December 26th through January 26th. Trees may be dropped off at any time between these dates at the Golden Recycle site, just west of Hwy 93 and north of Golden Gate Canyon Road. Please leave trees at the south end of the site where a recycling sign is visible. Mulch from the chipping process will be available for free at the public pickup site on 11th Street, just west of the Clear Creek History Park. For further information, call 303-384-8141.

• City of Lakewood: Take your tree to the City of Lakewood Greenhouse, 9556 W. Yale Avenue from December 26th through January 11th, between 7:00am and 3:00pm.

• City of Edgewater: Trees will be accepted on January 10th between 9:00am and 1:00pm at 20th and Depew.

• City of Evergreen: Trees will be accepted at the Evergreen Lutheran Church on Hwy 73 on January 3rd or 10th between 9:00am and 5:00pm. For more information, call 303-670-6385.

• For other municipalities, check the website or call the city offices.

• Rooney Road Recycling Center no longer recycles organics.

More suggestions found here at the Jeffco Gardeners Blog:
jeffcogardener.blogspot.com/2015/01/chri...-by-donna-duffy.html