UNLV Experts: Recycle Your Tree This Holiday Season

UNLV sustainability coordinator Tara Pike helps with the Christmas Tree Recycling partnership, which offers 30 drop sites around the Las Vegas valley, making it convenient and easy to recycle your Christmas tree this holiday season. In 2021, 17,822 trees were recycled, the third-most ever for the local program. The recycled trees created more than 145 tons of nutrient-rich mulch, and local landfill volume was spared the equivalent of around 10 school buses (2,376 cubic yards). Since the community program began in 2001, almost 300,000 trees — an astonishing 2,400 tons — have been recycled. When the holidays are over, recycling Christmas trees is a gift to the community that will keep on giving. And it’s easy. The Southern Nevada Christmas Tree Recycling Committee, a partnership of local businesses and community agencies, manages more than 30 convenient drop-off locations throughout Southern Nevada: https://www.springspreserve.org/education-conservation/christmas-tree-recycling.html More: https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/annual-christmas-tree-recycling-program-begins-dec-26-southern-nevada