Carson Arranges Collection, Recycling of Christmas Trees
For the second consecutive year, the city of Carson has teamed with two private firms to recycle Christmas trees.
Residents are being asked to place their trees--minus ornaments, nails and stands--curbside on their regular trash pickup day Wednesday, Thursday or Jan. 4.
Western Waste Industries, the city refuse hauler, will pick up the trees and take them to Kellogg Supply, a Carson-based fertilizing company. The firm will grind up the trees to make compost. City officials said last January’s pickup collected about 8,000 trees that produced 55 tons of compost chips.
Flocked trees cannot be recycled but will be picked up with other garbage.
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