The Town of Wake Forest is encouraging residents to make recycling a holiday tradition by recycling their Christmas trees.
Beginning Thursday, Dec. 28, the Town will collect and recycle live Christmas trees from residential homes according to its normal yard waste collection schedule. The trees will be ground into mulch, which will be used at the site of the 2018 Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo, scheduled for Saturday, April 28.
All Wake Forest residents whose yard waste is collected by the Town may participate in the “Treecycling” program. To recycle your Christmas tree, please remove all decorations, tinsel, nails, stands and bags from the tree and set it behind the curb for collection. Residents are reminded that artificial trees cannot be recycled.
By recycling Christmas trees, Wake Forest saves valuable space at the landfill.
For more information about Christmas tree recycling, contact Administrative Assistant Betty Pearce at 919-435-9570 or bpearce@wakeforestnc.gov.
For more information about the Town of Wake Forest’s yard waste collection program, visit
www.wakeforestnc.gov/yard-waste.aspx.
