Christmas Tree Recycling

Don’t put your Christmas tree on the curb so it can sit in a landfill forever. Here’s better options. The debate over live versus fake Christmas trees factors in what you do with them once you’re finished unwrapping the gifts...

City adds 13 additional locations to its annual Christmas Tree Recycling Program In 2021, be kind to the environment – your neighborhood sanitation worker – by recycling that old evergreen that brought so much cheer to last year.  Beginning Monday,...

Recycle Your Christmas Tree After you take down your Christmas tree, don’t trash it. If you leave it to the curb, it ends up in a landfill (adn take virtually forever to decompose.) Instead, recycle and compost that tree! First,...

Where can you recycle your christmas tree? Find all the pickup, drop off and range of options.

Now that we’ve kicked off the new year, it’s time to take down the holly and decorations to make room for our new year’s resolutions. But what should you do with your Christmas Tree? If you leave your trees on the...

It’s time to rip down the holly, bright lights and recycle your tree. Don’t throw your Christmas tree to the curb – it will go straight to the landfill. Instead, participate in the Streets Department’s Christmas Tree Recycling Program! Make...

It’s that time of the year: to take down the decorations and recycle your Christmas Tree! Here’s a list of locations where you can treecycle – thus reducing space in landfills and giving your tree a new life. Where to...

When you unstring your lights and pack up the ornaments this year, don’t you dare dream of tossing your tree on the streets! The Philadelphia Christmas Tree recycling is back. There is no curbside collection of Christmas trees for treecycling...

Happy holidays, readers! Now that you're finished unwrapping those gifts, it's time to start thinking about what to do with your Christmas tree. Whatever you do, don't leave them on your curb - the city dumps them straight in the landfill, where the beautiful trees remain tree corpses forever. Or as the NLNA (Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association) brilliantly put it in their newsletter, "For the fifth year in a row, the City of Philadelphia will not be curbside collecting holiday trees for recycling. As a result, any trees left at the curb will go into landfills or incinerators, causing air and water pollution and contributing to global warming." Kudos for the clarification. :-) Regardless of the location, make sure to remove all decorations and lights before you recycle the trees. Here are the 2013-2014 Christmas Tree recycling options in Philadelphia: