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Holiday Tree Recycling Dropoff

Amy Stansbury — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Don’t throw away your holiday tree; give it another life by recycling it! Starting December 26, City of Austin curbside customers can recycle their Christmas and holiday trees by leaving them at the curb on their regular collection day. All other residents can drop trees off at Zilker Park.

All Austinites are invited to contactless drop-off events to recycle their non-artificial holiday trees at Zilker Park, even if they are not City of Austin customers. Trees with flocking (artificial snow) are not accepted. Please do not place trees in bags, and remember to remove all ornaments, decorations, tinsel, lights and tree stands before arrival. All-natural holiday wreaths and garlands are accepted – please remove them from wire frames.

Drop-off is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the following dates:

-Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023

-Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024

-Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024

Learn more at austintexas.gov/treerecycling.

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Holiday Tree Recycling Dropoff

Amy Stansbury — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Drop-off is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the following dates:

-Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023

-Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024

-Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024

Learn more at austintexas.gov/treerecycling.

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Holiday Tree Recycling Dropoff

Amy Stansbury — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Drop-off is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the following dates:

-Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023

-Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024

-Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024

Learn more at austintexas.gov/treerecycling.

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Too Many Leaves & Branches For Your Compost Cart?

Amy Stansbury — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:51:43 +0000

This post is sponsored by Austin Resource Recovery. All Austin Common sponsors are screened by The Austin Common team to ensure they’re doing good for their employees, our community, and the planet.

Is your green composting cart looking full? Don’t worry… You can place up to 15 extra items beside it!

We teamed up with Austin Resource Recovery to create this handy little guide on how to deal with all those extra leaves and branches this time of year.

austintexas.gov/composting

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If It Grows, It Goes… Into Your Green Composting Cart!

Amy Stansbury — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 22:16:29 +0000

Having trouble remembering what goes into your green composting cart? We’ve teamed up with Austin Resource Recovery to put together this handy little guide!

austintexas.gov/composting

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Backyard composting class

Amy Stansbury — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Join the home composting community!

Composting is nature’s way of recycling. Rather than sending your food scraps and lawn clippings to the landfill, you can turn them into a nutrient-rich fertilizer for your plants, garden or lawn by using a home composting system.

Learn more: austintexas.gov/homecompostguide

Get free tickets here.

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Counting Down Positive News Stories From 2021

Amy Stansbury — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:22:07 +0000

These past two years have been difficult (to say the least). But in the face of it all, our community has still found a way to come together and accomplish some pretty big things. We thought it’d be nice to end 2021 by looking back at those moments.

So here it is… our recap of some of the most positive local news stories from 2021.