Penfield DPW Is Offering A Christmas Tree Recycling Service This Year

As the holiday season comes to a close, most Rochestarians are taking down the Christmas decorations and removing the ornaments from the tree.

Instead of putting the tree outside on the curb, there are some towns in the city of Rochester that are offering tree recycling services.

The Director of Public Works in Penfield, Eric Tait says that 15 trees have already been dropped off at the DPW and he expects around 500 by the end of the season.

“We get some the first weekend as folks want to get their houses emptied out and cleaned up, a lot more throughout this week and this weekend coming up, and shortly after January 6 there will be a bigger push to get even more and then it kind of dies down and we won’t see too many until early spring the folks that threw them out back behind their sheds and want to get things cleaned up.”

The trees are put into the city brush pile, which eventually gets ground up and given back to the community as free mulch.

“It’s a great alternative rather than putting it out and having it end up going to the landfill and just taking up more space and ultimately the garbage bills end up costing more and more over time and filling the landfills unnecessarily. It’s a greater alternative to be able to recycle and repurpose the trees and almost get a second use out of it.”

See if there’s a program near you here.

Source:
RochesterFirst.com