Treecycle: It’s as Easy as Can Be!
Your Christmas tree gave you so much joy during the holidays. Now give it a second life and recycle it with Denver’s Treecycle program. All trees collected through the program will be chipped into mulch and given away to Denver residents in the spring. Denver residents should set out their Christmas trees for recycling from January 3rd to January 13th.
- Remove all decorations and tree stand. Sorry, no artificial or flocked trees. Real Christmas trees only.
- Set your tree out for collection during the first two weeks of January.
- Dumpster service customers should place their Christmas tree out for recycling in their alley on either Tuesday, January 3rd or Monday, January 9th for collection during that week. Do not place trees in dumpsters. Trees should be placed at least 4 feet away from dumpsters.
- Barrel and Manual service customers should place their Christmas tree out for recycling on their normal trash day and trash set-out location between January 3rd and 13th.
- Watch your tree get picked up for recycling.
- Reclaim free mulch made from your tree on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at Denver’s Mulch Giveaway and Compost Sale.
Did You Know?
Treecycling is great way to return a renewable and natural resource back to the environment instead of disposing it in a landfill. In landfills, organic material decomposes under anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions, producing methane gas, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Note: All Christmas trees collected or dropped off become the property of the City & County of Denver and will be recycled into mulch for the Annual Mulch Giveaway event in May.