Christmas trees ready for disposal
National Honor Society students at Boyd Christian School are ready to take a heavy load off residents as they participate in Christmas tree recycling for a second year.
The effort was started last year as a service project for the group and students will again be picking up live-cut trees at area residents’ homes or at businesses. The trees will be mulched for future city planting projects.
Students will also be collecting trees from the four drop off sites located around the city and bringing them to the Department of Urban Forestry, urban forester Nick Kuhn said.
“It really helps out,” he said, noting the project helps both the city to recycle and save money on mulch and the group to understand about the environment. “They came to me saying, ‘We want to help. We want to do this.'”
Having a tree picked up from personal property can be arranged by calling the school at 473-9631 and leaving a message, including a name and telephone number, for Twan Majors, who is the National Honor Society advisor at Boyd. Majors will return the call to confirm. Students will pick up scheduled trees county-wide on Jan. 13, which is also the last day to drop one off at one of the four drop-off sites.
Majors said the event lasted all day last year, but students enjoyed taking a break from the books to endure physical labor and helping the environment.
“We hope anybody who has one doesn’t just dump it somewhere because the mulch can be used for a lot of other beautiful things,” she said, noting the recent plantings around the city.
Kuhn said trees should be plain, with ornaments or other decorations removed. Snow-sprayed trees cannot be used in the recycling project.
Trees not planned to be picked up at personal residences are encouraged to be dropped off at parking lots at either the Civic Center, Three Star Mall, Boyd or the Urban Forestry Department.