Don't let your Christmas tree become a fire hazard. Recycle it now. Here's how

Now that St. Nick has delivered his Christmas items, it’s your job to toss the discarded wrapping paper, cardboard containers and ribbons and vacuum up the tinsel scattered round the home.

As for the wilting yuletide pine that has been shedding needles for days, you’ve gotten a number of choices for disposing of it.

Hearth officers warn that dry Christmas bushes can pose a fireplace hazard so don’t postpone your disposal chore for too lengthy.

Inside the metropolis of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Sanitation and Atmosphere is providing curbside assortment for Christmas tree recycling by means of the top of January, in accordance with town’s web site.

A number of choices can be found for scheduling a pickup, resembling making a ticket on the MYLA311 web site, submitting a ticket request on the L.A. Sanitation and Atmosphere homepage, or calling the 24-hour customer support line at (800) 773-2489.

Earlier than your tree may be hauled away, the sanitation division requires the removing of all decorations, tinsel and stands. Moreover, it’s good to reduce the bushes into items, place them within the inexperienced bin and set them out for normal assortment on trash day.

Residents of multifamily buildings can place bushes on the curb for recurrently scheduled assortment days.

Town won’t settle for synthetic bushes and bushes layered in pretend snow for recycling. In case your tree is roofed in pretend snow, you need to put it in the black trash can designated for landfill disposal.

Town’s sanitation division makes use of recycled Christmas bushes to provide compost and mulch, which residents can get hold of totally free.

If you wish to drop off your tree for mulching, town gives two areas.

The Gaffey Avenue SAFE Middle at 1400 N. Gaffey St. in San Pedro will settle for bushes from Jan. 2 to Jan. 31, Monday by means of Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Lopez Canyon Environmental Schooling Middle in Lake View Terrace will settle for bushes on the identical dates and hours.

The Los Angeles Hearth Division urges folks to right away take away and recycle pure bushes. The division warns that dry Christmas needles can flip a small fireplace into an inferno in lower than 7 seconds.

Along with the mulching services, you may as well drop your bushes off at 13 Los Angeles metropolis fireplace division stations till Jan. 12. Taking part stations embody:

108 N. Fremont Ave., 90012 — Civic Middle / Bunker Hill

1192 E. 51st St., 90011 — South Los Angeles

11641 Corbin Ave., 91326 — Porter Ranch

4029 Wilshire Blvd., 90010 — Hancock Park

1005 N. Gaffey St., 90731 — North San Pedro

1410 Cypress Ave., 90065 — Cypress Park

10811 S. Important St., 90061 — South Los Angeles

1801 E. Century Blvd., 90002 — Watts

9224 Sunland Blvd., 91352 — Solar Valley

14355 Arminta St., 91402 — Panorama Metropolis

5101 N. Sepulveda Blvd., 91403 — Sherman Oaks

4470 Coliseum St., 90016 — South Los Angeles

23004 Roscoe Blvd., 91304 — West Hills

A number of L.A. recreation facilities and parks can even provide a one-day drop-off occasion on Jan. 7, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The areas embody: the Los Angeles Zoo car parking zone; the Rancho Cienega Recreation Middle in Baldwin Hills; the Balboa Sports activities Middle in Encino; the Cheviot Hills Recreation Middle in Rancho Park; Sunland Park close to Solar Valley; and the Westchester Municipal Constructing close to the Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.

Lengthy Seashore

The Lengthy Seashore Public Works Division is providing its annual “Treecycling” disposal program for residents till Jan. 12. Town has a dozen free drop-off areas out there Monday by means of Friday, from 9 a.m. to five p.m., and on the weekends from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In case you are unable to drop off your previous tree, town will decide up it for sooner or later solely on Jan. 13. Lengthy Seashore residents should place their bushes on the curb by 7 a.m.

Don’t overlook to take away all decorations and stands and reduce any tree over 12 toes in half. Flocked bushes might be accepted.

Santa Monica

Santa Monica’s vacation tree assortment will run till Jan. 31. Town advises residents to put naked bushes on the curbside or alleys prepared for pickup and to keep away from inserting bushes in parking heaps or parks. Calling 311 isn’t mandatory for tree pickup.

Pasadena

Pasadena gives curbside pickup for naked bushes to all stable waste prospects on their recurrently scheduled trash days from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16.

Should you favor to drop off your Christmas bushes, areas are open each day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eaton Blanche Park and Robinson Park till Jan. 2.

Newport Seashore

Residents of Newport Seashore have till Jan. 15 to put their cut-up bushes within the inexperienced recycling bins. The native sanitation firm, CR&R Environmental Companies, requests that every one ornaments, tinsel, lights and tree stands be eliminated.

Synthetic bushes and people with pretend snow needs to be positioned in black trash bins in Newport Seashore, as they won’t be recycled.

Laguna Seashore

In Laguna Seashore, Waste Administration will for the subsequent three weeks gather and recycle vacation bushes. Bushes taller than 6 toes should be reduce in half and positioned on the curb throughout an everyday assortment day.

Waste Administration transports the bushes to Tierra Verde Industries in Irvine for composting.