The City of Sacramento is proud to offer many options for our customers to recycle their Christmas trees. Preparing Your Holiday Tree for Recycling Cut trees longer than 6 feet into 3-foot or shorter pieces. Remove trees from stands or plastic bags. Remove ornaments, lights, nails, tinsel and metal rod supports from trees. Artificial trees will not be accepted. Containerized Yard Waste Customers Option 1: After cutting your tree into 3-foot or shorter pieces, place your holiday tree in your yard waste container. Make sure the trimmed pieces fit completely into the container with the lid closed Option 2: Place your tree out for loose-in-the-street collection by 6:00am on your regular

Every year after Christmas until the first of the year arrives, neighbors all over town take their Christmas trees down and put them out on their front curbs. Yesterday I saw many lonely trees that were no longer useful. What should happen to these trees that we spend years growing, just to be chopped down, put in a warm home for less than a month, and finally, kicked to the curb. Apparently, when put out on your curb, these trees are added to the landfills like any other trash. I have been researching and have discovered some solutions on how to put these trees to good use yet again. According to the county of Sacramento, Waste Management and Recycling, on December 27 and January 3 onl