Christmas Trees

The 2011-12 Christmas tree recycling program will offer curbside collection of trees this year for East Baton Rouge residents, except in Baker and Zachary. Several drop-off locations will also be available. Allied Waste will collect Christmas trees placed on the curb between Jan. 9 and Jan. 22, and deliver them to Natural Resources Recovery, the city-parish woody waste recycling contractor.

Trees should be placed at the curb, separated from other unbundled trash and woody waste. “The trees will be collected in a separate pass at the end of the day and taken to the woody waste recycling center, and mulched or composted. Residents should remove tinsel, metal stands, lights, and ornaments from trees before recycling them because those items can contaminate mulch and compost products.

The following drop-off collection sites will open Monday, December 26, and will continue to accept trees through Thursday, January 30th.

• Independence Park, 7500 Independence Blvd.
• Highland Road Park, 14024 Highland Road
• Kathy Drive Park, off O’Neal Lane by Team Toyota
• Flannery Road Park 801 S. Flannery Rd.
• Pecue Wood Recycling Facility, 9455 Pecue Lane
• Scenic Hwy. Wood Recycling Facility, 12601 Scenic Hwy.
• LSU, Skip Bertman Drive in lot across from Vet School

For more information, Click here or call the Recycling Office at 225-389-5194.

Phone Books

Give your old telephone books new life by participating in the City’s special phone book collection program. Simply place your old phone books in your recycling cart on your regular collection day. The phone books will be taken to the Recycling Foundation’s recycling processing facility where the telephone books will be sorted with other paper products and marketed for use as roofing material, home insulation and recycled paper products. Old telephone books (AT&T/The Real Yellow Pages and the Sunshine Pages) may be recycled at anytime, year-round.

Businesses with large quantities of telephone books may take them to the Recycling Foundation at 7923 Tom Drive. For apartment tenants and small business, telephone books and all other recyclables collected in the Curbside Recycling Program are accepted at the Recycle Round Up Monthly Drop-Off held at 6945 Florida Boulevard, in the Louisiana Department of Insurance Receivership Office parking lot, located next to Brian Harris Automotive Center, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, on the 3rd Saturday of every month.