Christmas "Tree-cycling"
Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling encourages everyone to recycle their LIVE Christmas trees by taking it to one of the many drop-off sites located throughout Westmoreland County.
Proper disposal of a real tree is beneficial to the environment. In most cases, real trees thrown away with the garbage end up taking up space in a landfill. Landfills are designed as a storage facility for garbage, not a site for decomposition. However, recycling your Christmas tree returns it to nature. The trees will be chipped into mulch and used to beautify community parks, eventually decomposing into valuable humus to nourish and renew the soil.
There is no cost to recycle your Christmas tree; however, the Murrysville-Export Rotary collects donations to fund their own projects at the site they host.
All locations require that trees are completely bare of ALL decorations and lights when dropped off. This includes any tree bags or wrappings used to transport the tree to the drop-off site.
Sponsors of this year’s Christmas tree recycling program include Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling, and James A. Rutter Company in Murrysville.
Mike Skapura, Executive Director of Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling commented: “We all love the look and smell of a live Christmas tree. We really like how they give us that extra pizzaz to our holiday decor. When the season ends, lets help these trees give back to our earth by taking your Christmas tree to any of the Tree-cycling drop-off locations around the County and let your tree’s beauty go full circle by giving it back to the earth. Don’t let their beauty end in a landfill.”
ABOUT WESTMORELAND CLEANWAYS AND RECYCLING
Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to protect, restore, and maintain the environmental qualities of our county for the benefit of all who live, work, and visit herein. We accomplish this mission by operating a recycling center for hard-to-dispose material, offering bi-monthly household hazardous waste collections, sponsoring and promoting community programs that address the proper disposal of solid waste, supporting the cleanup of illegal dumpsites and littered areas, and educating the public through presentations, and print and digital media.
Please see attached document for a list of Tree-cycling locations in Westmoreland County