Don’t Forget To Recycle this Christmas!
Every Christmas season, the amount of waste increases greatly due to boxes, wrapping paper, and live Christmas trees.
This year, let’s continue to Keep Whitehouse Beautiful by recycling most of our holiday leftovers! Both cardboard boxes such as gift boxes and / or shipping boxes can be recycled at the Whitehouse Recycle Center as well as wrapping paper, without the bows and ribbon, of course. No Styrofoam or cellophane, either, please!
As for live Christmas trees, they are not being accepted this year at the Recycle Center, but that doesn’t mean you should put yours in the garbage, as IESI is not accepting them either. There are 2 places in Tyler that are accepting live Christmas trees: Golden Road Park at the intersection of McDonald & Golden Roads and Fun Forest Park in the 900 Block of North Glenwood Boulevard. Collection for LIVE trees only begins the Monday after Christmas and lasts until January 8th. Trees must be free of all decorations, garland, tinsel and NOT be flocked.
There’s quite a demand for live Christmas trees, as they become habitats for fish in the area lakes. Now that’s recycling at it’s BEST!
The Whitehouse Recycle Center is located on Railroad Avenue, just south of FM 346. They are open the first and third Saturdays of each month, 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and every Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Check out the Recycling tab on our homepage for more items accepted at the Recycle Center.
