How Chicagoans can recycle their Christmas timber, vacation lights

CHICAGO – For those who embellished your house with an actual tree this Christmas, it is time to consider recycling as an alternative of sending it to a landfill.

Beginning Jan. 11, Chicago residents can drop off actual timber at one among 27 parks all through town.

The Division of Streets and Sanitation and the Chicago Park District first launched town’s Christmas tree recycling program in 1990.

All timber have to be freed from ornaments, tinsel, lights or flocking. Plastic baggage used for transport should even be eliminated earlier than putting timber within the stalls. 

Chicago vacation tree recycling areas

From Jan. 11-25:

• Bessemer Park, 8930 S. Muskegon Ave.
• Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1301 N Humboldt Dr.
• Lincoln Park, East Facet of Cannon Drive at Fullerton Avenue
• West Chatham Park, 8223 S. Princeton Ave.
• Rowan Park, 11546 S. Avenue L
• Clark Park, 3400 N. Rockwell St.
• Jackson Park, 6300 S. Cornell Ave.
• Margate Park, 4921 N. Marine Dr.  
• North Park Village, 5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
• Sheridan Park, 910 S. Aberdeen St.
• Forestry Website, 900 E. 103rd St.
• Kennedy Park, 2427 W. 113th St.
• Marquette Park, 6700 S. Kedzie Ave.
• Norwood Park, 5800 N. Avondale Ave.
• Walsh Park, 1722 N. Ashland Ave.
• Garfield Park, 100 N. Central Park Ave.
• Kelvyn Park, 4438 W. Wrightwood Ave.  
• Mahalia Jackson Park, 8385 S. Birkhoff Ave.
• McKinley Park, 2210 W. Pershing Rd.
• Portage Park, 4100 N. Lengthy Ave.
• Warren Park, 6601 N. Western Ave.
• Grant Park, 900 S. Columbus Dr.
• Lake Meadows Park, 3117 S. Rhodes Ave.
• Mt. Greenwood Park, 3721 W. 111th St.
• Riis Park, 6201 W. Wrightwood Ave.
• Wentworth Park, 5701 S. Narragansett Ave.  
• Hiawatha Park, 8029 W. Forest Protect Dr.

Sherry Skalko from Cut back Waste Chicago stated they began vacation mild assortment efforts 4 years in the past throughout six areas on the North Facet, gathering roughly 1,400 lbs of fabric.

The quantity of fabric greater than doubled final 12 months at two dozen areas.

This 12 months, Cut back Waste Chicago has expanded to 34 areas throughout town and suburbs accepting vacation lights.

“There are corporations on the market that can take out the actually useful metals which might be contained in the wires and reuse them for different functions,” Skalko stated. “That is a heck of lots higher than sending them to the landfill the place they’ll by no means be used once more.”

Vacation lights shall be collected from Dec. 1 by means of Jan. 31 in any respect the next areas. Try Cut back Waste’s web site for extra data.

Chicago vacation lights disposal areas (from north to south)

• Edgebrook Ace {Hardware}: 5423 W. Devon Ave. (773-775-7205)
• fiftieth Ward Workplace: 2949 W. Devon Ave. (773-262-1050)
• 6018North: 6018 N. Kemore Ave. (773-271-4918)
• American Airways, O’Hare Airport*
• fortieth Ward Workplace: 5620 N. Western Ave. (773-654-1867)
• forty eighth Ward Workplace: 1129 W Bryn Mawr (773-784-5277)
• Forest Glen Animal Hospital: 5330 N. Elston Ave. (773-283-2443)
• Forest Glen Neighborhood Membership*
• Mr V’s Pizza: 5285 N. Elston Ave. (773-736-9434)
• The Misplaced Hours Espresso Store: 5256 N. Broadway St. (NA)
• Chicago Waldorf College: 5200 N. Ashland Ave. (773-465-2662) After Jan. 6
• A Fairly Flower: 2334 W. Lawrence Ave. (773-506-0806)
• IL Home District 15 Workplace: 4200 W. Lawrence Ave. (773-736-0218)
• Khepri Cafe: 4650 N. Kedzie Ave. (872-208-7919)
• Lincoln Sq. Animal Hospital: 4501 N. Lincoln Ave. (773-271-1901)
• IL Home District 19 Workplace: 4349 N. Milwaukee Ave. (773-647-1174)
• forty seventh Ward Workplace: 4243 N. Lincoln Ave. (773-868-4747)
• Northcenter Chamber of Commerce: 4045 N. Lincoln Ave. (773-525-3609)
• UPS Retailer: 4044 N. Lincoln Ave. (773-871-1400)
• Erwin Regulation LLC: 4043 N. Ravenswood, Suite 208 (773-525-0153)
• IL Home District 40 Workplace: 4007 N. Sacramento Ave. (773-267-2880)
• Katherine Anne Confections: 3665 W. Irving Park Rd. (773-727-3248)
• Bartleby’s Ice Cream: 1943 W. Byron Ave. (773-770-9019)
• Henry’s Home: 3655 N. Bell Ave. (773-344-1976)
• thirtieth Ward Workplace: 5718 W. Belmont Ave. (773-628-7874)
• thirty second Ward Workplace: 2657 N. Clybourn Ave. (773-248-1330)
• Rebuilding Alternate: 1740 W. Webster Ave. (773-252-2234)
• Katherine Anne Confections: 2745 W. Armitage Ave. (773-727-3248)
• 1st Ward Workplace: 1958 N. Milwaukee Ave. (872-206-2685)
• The WasteShed: 1754 N. Kimball Ave. (773-666-5997)
• The Refilleri: 1007 N. California Ave. (312-783-0684)
• The Unwaste Store: 1108 W. Madison St. (312-804-9730)
• Trash Fortress: 1048 W. thirty seventh St. (Schedule drop-off on web site)
• The Plant: 1400 W. forty sixth St. (773-357-7192)
• UPS Retailer: 6102 S. Archer Ave. (312-835-1908)

Outdoors Chicago areas

• Rebuilding Alternate: 1245 Hartrey Ave., Evanston (847-864-9246)
• Whittier Elementary PTO: 715 North Harvey, Oak Park (throughout college hours)