How, where to recycle your Christmas tree

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By the Lincoln Journal Star

The city will accept holiday trees for recycling at seven sites through Jan. 11.

Tree collection sites are:

* Ballard Park, 3901 N. 66th St.

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* Oak Lake Park, First and Cornhusker, (three blocks south of Cornhusker on First Street)

* University Place Park, 50th and Garland streets

* Holmes Lake Park, parking lot west of the north softball field

* Sawyer-Snell Park, Second 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 to Lincoln residents in late January at the sites listed above.

The Public Works and Utilities Department will use remaining wood chips in its composting operation.

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

The city began offering the 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 past 21 years, the city has recycled more than 173,935 trees (about 2,600 tons).

Those with questions about the city’s recycling program’s can call the City Recycling Information Hotline, 441-8215, or visit  lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: recycle).