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From this Monday, December 26 Long Beach’s annual Christmas tree recycling program is underway.
Residents may come to leave their natural Christmas trees for free in 12 places that the city has arranged, where they will be received until January 7 of 2023.
The program, also known as “treecycling”, harvests the trees and sends them to a chipping facility where they are turned into landscape mulch or to a conversion facility for power generation.
Residents can come to drop off their trees Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and also Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m..
The places where Christmas trees can be delivered are the following:
- Houghton Park, at Myrtle Avenue and E. Harding Street.
- North Police Substation, at 4891 N. Atlantic Avenue and Del Amo Boulevard. The entrance is on 49th Street.
- Wardlow Park, at E Monlaco Road and Rutgers Avenue.
- Veterans Park, at 28th Street and Pine Avenue.
- El Dorado Park, at 2760 N Studebaker Road, in the parking lot behind the administration building.
- Hudson Park, at Hill Street and Webster Avenue.
- Environmental Services Bureau, at 2929 W Willow Street.
- Stearns Park, at 23rd Street and Roycroft Avenue.
- Orizaba Park, at Orizaba Avenue and 14th Street.
- César E. Chávez Park, at Golden Shore Street and 4th Street.
- Bixby Park, at 1st Street and Cherry Avenue.
- Fire Station #14, at 5200 Eliot Street.
In case the delivery of trees cannot be possible, On Saturday, January 7, the free collection of Christmas trees will be available for city trash and recycling customers.
That day,. Trees must be placed outside homes at 7:00 am at the sites where the residents’ recycling collection takes place.
For the Christmas tree to be collected, all decorations and supports need to be removedtrees over 12 feet tall will need to be cut in half, and collection of flocked trees will be accepted.
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