For 25 years, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful has been recycling Christmas trees.
They are making it easy for anybody who wants to avoid illegal dumping, by having the option to bring a Christmas tree to multiple drop-off locations across Northern Nevada.
Jaime Souza is the Operations Manager at KTMB, and she says this event has been helping people after the holidays for many years.
"It's going to help to reduce the illegal dumping that's happening in our open space areas where we see trees being dumped," says Souza.
The entire recycling process is simple for anyone. Locals just bring a clean tree without decorations to one of the drop-off sites. A KTMB volunteer will then grab the tree and put it in the stock pile.
"This is just a really easy and inexpensive way for people to keep their tree out of the landfill," says Souza.
Every winter, Souza says they collect more than 10,000 trees from Northern Nevada locals.
The trees will be thrown into a wood chipper to provide mulch that KTMB will use for weed abatement and beautification projects in the spring.
There are nine sites where people can drop off their trees.
People can go to Bartley Ranch in south Reno, Rancho San Rafael Park in north Reno, and Shadow Mountain Sports Complex in Sparks.
People can also go to Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District Stations 16, 17, 18, 221, 223 and 301.
The recycling program will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for two weeks in Washoe County and will end on January 10th.
