After the holiday season, make sure your Christmas tree does not end up in a landfill. It can serve other useful purposes such as mulch or a compost additive. Recycling Christmas trees in your Green cart helps the City reach our recycling goals and saves landfill space.

Single Family Residential Customers

1. Please prepare your Christmas tree for recycling:
• Remove all ornaments, lights, and tinsel.
• Cut into lengths of 3 feet maximum so our equipment can handle the trees.
• Remove the stand.
2. Place your tree in the Green waste cart for collection.
3. For additional information call 621-1452.

Apartments and Commercial Customers

Option 1 – Appointment Service:

1. To schedule a collection appointment call Solid Waste Management Division at 621-1452. Trees will be collected for two weeks in January.
2. Select ONE or TWO sites where your tenants and/or employees can place their Christmas for collection. Trees should not be placed in bin enclosures, near pools or tennis courts.
3. To avoid problems with the collection of the trees or the green waste recycling equipment, please ask your residents/employees to prepare the trees for recycling:
• Remove all ornaments, lights, and tinsel.
• Remove the stand.
• Place in the designated area you have selected for collection.

Option 2 – Cart Service:

1. If you have access to a Green waste cart, please use it to recycle your Christmas tree. No appointment is necessary to service your green waste cart.
2. To avoid problems with the collection of the trees or the green waste recycling equipment, please ask your residents/employees to prepare the trees for recycling:
• Remove all ornaments, lights, and tinsel.
• Cut into lengths of 3 feet maximum so our equipment can handle the trees.
• Remove the stand.

If you have additional questions, contact the Solid Waste Management Division at 621-1452.

FOR YOUR SAFETY

Fire Officials warn that it can be dangerous to burn your tree in the fireplace.

NO LITTERING

Dumping trees in vacant lots is considered littering. There are heavy fines for littering in the City of Fresno.