SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - Give your holiday tree a free and proper send-off and recycle it into a new life as beneficial mulch or compost.

Requirements

Trees must have all tinsel, lights, decorations, nails and stands removed. Flocked trees are not accepted for recycling. Please ensure transported holiday trees are properly secured during transport.

Saturday, Jan. 4, Free Mulching Event

From 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., residents can bring holiday trees to be mulched for free to the SMUD Corporation Yard, located at 6100 Folsom Blvd. (just off Highway 50). Mulched tree is offered free to customers.

Sacramento County Locations

On both Saturday, Jan. 4 and Sunday, Jan. 5, rain or shine, residents can recycle holiday trees for free at two locations.

From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days, residents can drop trees off at Kiefer Landfill, located at 12701 Kiefer Blvd. (Jackson Highway, north on Grant Line Road, right on Kiefer Boulevard).

Trees can also be dropped off between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at North Area Recovery Station, located at 4450 Roseville Road (Highway 80, north on Watt Avenue, left on Roseville Road).

Loads in excess of five trees must be issued a voucher for the trees to be accepted at no charge. Nonprofit civic groups and community organizations can obtain vouchers by submitting the Annual Holiday Tree Recycling Program Application Form​. For more information, email [email protected].  

Other Local Drop-Off Locations

On Saturday, Jan. 4, residents can also recycle holiday trees for free at Elder Creek Recovery and Transfer Station, located at 8642 Elder Creek Road (Jackson Highway, south on Florin Perkins Road, left on Elder Creek Road) between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Also on Jan. 4, trees can be taken to Sacramento Recycling & Transfer Station at 8491 Fruitridge Road (Jackson Highway, south on Florin Perkins Road, right on Fruitridge Road) between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Sacramento Recycling & Transfer Station is also accepting trees from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 26 to Jan. 4, Monday through Saturday.

Trees can also be dropped off in Folsom from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 4 at the Dan Russell Rodeo Arena Rodeo Park, located at the end of Stafford Street, next to the arena.

Curbside Organics Collection of Holiday Trees

County residents with the Department of Waste Management & Recycling curbside collection service can also recycle their live cut holiday tree (all tinsel, lights, decorations, nails and stands removed) by cutting it up and putting it loosely in the curbside Organics cart. Please make sure the lid will close. The cart will be emptied on your next regularly scheduled Organics collection day.

Flocked trees can be cut up and placed loosely in the curbside Garbage cart for collection. Ensure that the lid will close.

Do not put holiday trees on curbs or roadsides for curbside collection.