How to recycle your Christmas tree and other holiday things in Denver

Ah, the age-old question, ‘how agelong should Christmas decorations enactment up?’ Once you’ve travel to the decision that they can’t beryllium everlastingly you mightiness adjacent wonderment what to bash with that tree, those lights and each the remnants of your gifts. The bully quality is that you tin recycle galore things you utilized to show your vacation cheer.

Across Denver and Colorado, cities and programs volition assistance instrumentality those items disconnected your hands.

In Denver, you tin recycle your aged vacation lights for escaped from Dec. 6 to Jan. 8. Take the aged lights to Cherry Creek Recycling Drop-off oregon Blue Star Recyclers and follow these instructions.

Those Christmas cards connected your fridge oregon wrapping insubstantial inactive scampered successful the surviving room? Most often that excessively tin beryllium recycled and successful your regular bin. Just marque definite there’s nary glitter oregon foil this tin not beryllium recycled. While pat is okay, metallic is not. And beryllium definite to dispose of ribbons and batteries that mightiness beryllium connected cards oregon insubstantial earlier recycling.

As for the trees here’s wherever you request to go:

In Denver, Treecycle is simply a programme for Denver residents from Denver Recycles. Discarded Christmas trees volition beryllium turned into mulch aft the vacation play and escaped Treecycle mulch is made disposable to Denver residents astatine the Mulch Giveaway and Compost Sale successful May.

All you person to bash is beryllium a Denver resident, acceptable your histrion retired connected your postulation time betwixt Jan. 3-14. One happening to support successful caput is that trash collection days are changing for galore successful the caller year.

If you’re not successful Denver here’s what you bash with your histrion astir the metro area:

Adams County

Remove your decorations and caput to Riverdale Regional Park. From Jan. 3 done Jan. 10 the Adams County’s Parks, Open Space & Cultural Arts Department is offering escaped unrecorded Christmas histrion recycling from sunrise to sunset. For much details, telephone 303-637-8000.

Arvada

Head to Lake Arbor Lake Park oregon Stenger Fields and the City of Arvada volition judge Christmas trees for escaped from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. 7 days a week done Jan. 24, 2022.

Aurora

There are respective drop-off sites that connection escaped recycling until Jan. 10 including Del Mar Park, Saddle Rock Golf Course and Olympic Park. Call 303-739-7177 for much information.

Castle Rock

Residents of Castle Rock tin goto Founders Park, Metzler Ranch Community Park oregon Paintbrush Park until Jan. 31.

Douglas County

Trees tin beryllium near astatine Bayou Gulch, Challenger Regional Park, Fairgrounds Regional Park oregon Highland Heritage Regional Park. Those sits volition beryllium disposable done Jan. 31 and mulch volition beryllium connected site. If you request much accusation telephone 720-733-6990.

El Paso County

You tin recycle trees astatine visitant halfway parking batch astatine Cheyenne Mountain State Park connected Jan. 1 from 1-5 p.m., and Jan. 2, 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. It is suggested you donate $5 per tree, with proceeds going to Friends of Cheyenne Mountain State Park. There’s besides a TreeCycle program with 7 locations.

Highlands Ranch

Dad Clark Park, Redstone Park and Toepfer Park are offering histrion driblet disconnected with mulch disposable to residents done Jan. 17.

Lakewood

Drop disconnected your trees astatine Lakewood’s Greenhouse from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. done Jan. 9 if you’re a resident. There’s much info astatine 720-963-5240.

Littleton

Residents tin driblet disconnected their histrion immoderate time from from sunrise to sunset until Jan. 14 astatine Cornerstone Park, oregon astatine the Willow Spring Service Center.

Longmont

Through Jan. 9 drop-off sites for trees volition beryllium at, Roosevelt Park, Garden Acres Park, Kanemoto Park and Centennial Park. There’s more accusation here.

Northglenn

Residents tin permission trees astatine Northglenn’s Maintenance and Operations Facility, Northwest Open Space oregon Jaycee Park done Jan. 7.

Summit County

There are respective sites you tin dispose of your tree. The Summit County Resource Allocation Park (SCRAP,) a postulation tract successful Willowbrook crossed from Trent Park, Stilson Lot, the Recycling Center crossed from Town Hall successful Dillon, and the Frisco Bay Marina ungraded lot.