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Recycling Programs: Holiday Tree Recycling

City to Recycle Trees for 23rd Year

PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
Recycling Office, 2400 Theresa Street, Lincoln, NE 68521, 441-7043, fax 441-8735

Date: December 22, 2009

For More Information: Gene Hanlon, Recycling Coordinator, 441-7043

Scott Hofeling, Hofeling Enterprises, 438-8733

City to Recycle Trees for 23rd Year

The City will accept holiday trees for recycling at seven sites through Sunday, January 10. The tree collection sites are:

  • Ballard Park, 3901 N. 66th St.
  • Oak Lake Park, 1st and Cornhusker Highway, three blocks south of Cornhusker on 1st Street
  • University Place Park, 50th and Garland streets
  • Holmes Lake Park, parking lot west of the north softball field
  • Sawyer-Snell Park, 2nd and South streets, west of the Fire Department Building
  • Tierra Park, 29th and Tierra Drive
  • Woods Park, 31st and 'J' streets, southeast corner of the parking lot

The trees will be chipped, and the chipped material will be made available free of charge to Lincoln residents in mid-January. Hoefling Enterprises has donated grinding services at each of the collection sites again this year. The tree mulch will be taken to their facility at 2200 South Folsom Court and distributed free to the public during their normal business hours on a first come, first served basis.

The City Recycling Office reminds residents recycling their trees to remove plastic bags used to transport and put them in trash cans at the recycling sites. All nails, wires and tree stands must be removed.

The City of Lincoln began offering the tree recycling program in 1987 to keep large quantities of trees from going to the landfill. Lincoln's tree recycling program is the oldest of its kind in Nebraska. In the last 22 years, the City has recycled more than 182,985 trees (about 2,745 tons).

Those with questions regarding the tree recycling program or the City's recycling program in general, are urged to call the City Recycling Information Hotline at 441-8215 or visit the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: recycle).

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