Don’t forget to recycle your Christmas tree
The city’s public works department and urban forestry department will set up the collection sites and students in Boyd Christian School’s honor society will gather up the trees for the third time.
Last year, the trees were ground at the urban forestry building with a wood chipper from McMinnville Electric System. The Department of Urban Forestry then used the cured mulch to improve sites throughout the city.
Please follow some simple guidelines so your tree can be recycled instead of becoming a garbage nuisance:
• Remove all ornaments and tinsel.
• Remove everything that was used as a stand from the tree.
• Trees with spray-on snow cannot be recycled. Do not drop off trees with spray-on snow.
Trees can be dropped off at any one of the four locations:
1) Civic Center – 500 W. Garfield Street;
2) Department of Urban Forestry – 218 S. Chancery Street;
3) Three Star Mall – 70S and Sparta Highway;
4) Boyd Christian School – Morrison Street. Trees can be dropped off until Jan. 12 at 7 a.m.
Please call with any questions the Department of Urban Forestry at 474-TREE (8733).