Christmas Tree Recycling

Waste & Recycling Services will pick up Christmas trees from Calgary households that currently receive City residential garbage collection.

Place your tree on the ground near your black cart collection spot.  It will be picked up within three weeks. 

Your tree must be out by 7 a.m. on January 8, 2013.

Drop-off: The City will also have eight temporary drop-off depots for trees:

These locations will be open: December 28, 2012 to January 27, 2013.
•Fire Hall #15 – 6328 35th Ave. N.W.
•Prarie Winds Park – 223 Castleridge Blvd. N.E.
•Bottomlands Park – St. Georges Drive and Seventh Avenue N.E.
•Marda Loop Community Association– 3130 16th St. SW.
•Parks Compound – 10312 Sacramento Dr. S.W.
•Spyhill Landfill – 69th Street and 112th Avenue N.W.
•East Calgary Landfill – 17th Avenue and 68th Street S.E.
•Shepard Landfill – 114th Avenue and 68th Street S.E.

For landfill hours, visit calgary.ca/waste or contact 311.

The trees collected by the program are chipped into mulch, put into windrows where the internal temperature reaches a point that will remove pests like gypsy moth larvae. The mulch is used in green spaces around Calgary and available at no extra charge to residents.

Keeping trees out of the landfills helps extend the life of landfills, reduces greenhouse gas and produces a useful resource. The annual Christmas tree recycling program is just one of many ways that Calgarians can reduce, reuse and recycle to help The City achieve its goal of diverting 80 per cent of its waste by the year 2020.