Denver Christmas tree recycling begins Jan. 2

What do you do together with your Christmas tree as soon as the vacation is over?

For these with synthetic bushes, it’s as straightforward as sticking again within the closet. However should you took house a pure Christmas tree this vacation season, Denver is opening recycling facilities throughout the town to provide these bushes a second life — as mulch.

Starting Jan. 2, Denver residents can recycle their Christmas bushes at 11 drop-off websites throughout the town, so long as all decorations, lights and tree stands are eliminated first, in accordance with a Wednesday information launch from the town.

On weekdays from Jan. 2 to Jan. 31, residents can recycle their bushes on the Cherry Creek Switch Station (7301 E. Jewell Ave.), Havana Nursery (10450 Smith Street) and Central Platte Campus (1271 W. Bayaud Ave.) from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you happen to wait till Saturday, you may 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 College Campus (4800 Telluride St.)
• Central Platte Campus (1271 West Bayaud Ave.)
• Carson Elementary (5420 1st Ave.)
• Kennedy Excessive College (Newland Avenue and Brown Place)
• Slavens Elementary (3000 South Clayton St.)

Timber dropped at Treecycle drop websites can be became mulch obtainable to Denver residents at no cost 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 accordance with the discharge. Timber unnoticed for giant merchandise pickup is not going to be became mulch.

Denver residents additionally nonetheless have a couple of extra days to recycle broken or burned-out holiday lights as they pull them down from their roofs and bushes. Two facilities take them at no cost: 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) can 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 the brand new yr, however will reopen Jan. 2 for drop-off.