News that a Christmas tree last night caused a multi-alarm fire destroying four townhomes last night points out the need to address Christmas trees at then end of the holidays.
The City of Houston has announced that it will be accepting trees and used wrapping paper at all of the city’s recycling centers. The trees will be turned into compost.
Here is a list of locations and hours of operations:
Open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
1 Sunbeam Neighborhood Depository, 5100 Sunbeam
2 Central Neighborhood Depository, 2240 Central St.
3 Kirkpatrick Neighborhood Depository, 5565 Kirkpatrick
4 Windfern Neighborhood Depository, 6023 Windfern
5 N. Main Neighborhood Depository, 9003 N. Main
6 Southwest Neighborhood Depository,10785 SW Freeway
Open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
7 Doss Park (gates close at 5), 2500 Frick Road
8 Memorial Park (Ball Fields 4 and 5), 7300 Memorial Drive
9 T.C. Jester Park, 4200 T.C. Jester West
10 Kingwood, Bens View Lane at Bens Branch Drive
11 Elington Airport Recycling Drop-off, HWY 3 at Brantley Roa
Open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
12 Living Earth, 5625 Crawford Road
13 Living Earth, 1503 Industrial Drive (Gessner @ Hwy 90)
14 Living Earth, 1700 Highway 90A East
15 Living Earth, 12202 Cutten Road
16 Living Earth, 16138 Highway 6
Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Open Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon
17 Westpark Consumer Recycling Center, 5900 Westpark
All locations will be closed on New Year’s Day and Jan. 2, 2012.
And must be dropped off before January 8, 2012.
Presented by the City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department
and Living Earth Technologies