Christmas Tree Recycling Program

Collection from Dec. 26 to Jan. 14

DUARTE, CA, December 1, 2011 – The City of Duarte through its franchised trash hauler, Burrtec Waste, will provide a Christmas tree collection service for residential customers in conjunction with Sanitation districts of Los Angeles County annual Christmas Tree Recycling program. The trees will be ground up for composting or used for the County Sanitation Districts' landfill Cover Project.

Christmas trees will be collected on regular trash collection days from Dec. 26 through Jan. 14. All decorations, tinsel and stands must be removed. Flocked trees or trees coated with a fire retardant will be accepted.Christmas tree collection will also be available in the county area of Duarte.  The County of Los Angeles has contracted with waste haulers serving the unincorporated areas to provide Christmas tree recycling services to residences, multi-residential complexes and commercial, institutional, and industrial entities.

As part of green waste recovery, the Districts have offered a special Christmas tree recycling event since 1990. Last year, 79 out of 88 cities and the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County participated in the Districts’ Christmas Tree Recycling Program.  A total of 443,065 trees were collected with the majority of the trees recycled at the Districts’ Puente Hills Landfill.

For more information about the Christmas tree recycling program in the City of Duarte, call City Hall at (626) 357-7931 or Burrtec at (1-800) 325-9417 or visit www.accessduarte.com.  More information on the County’s Christmas Tree Recycling program is available by calling 1-562-908-4288 xt. 2444 or on the web at www.lacsd.org.

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