By Staff Reports
(Honolulu)– The Department of Environmental Services (ENV) encourages O‘ahu residents to recycle their live Christmas trees through the City’s convenient and environmentally friendly disposal programs as the holiday season comes to a close.
Residents with green carts should remove all decorations, cut trees into sections that fit completely inside the cart, and ensure the lid closes. Residents should cut, bag, and place trees with tinsel or flocking in the gray refuse cart.
Homes with manual curbside collection should cut Christmas trees into three-foot sections, bundle them securely, and place them at the curb on the regular refuse collection day. Residents may drop off whole trees at any ENV Convenience Center, excluding Wahiawā, or at the Kapaʻa Transfer Station in Kailua. Residents may also deliver live trees without flocking or tinsel, at no cost, to the City’s composting contractor, Hawaiian Earth Recycling, located at 65-1101 Wilikina Drive in Wahiawā.
Residents can find additional information, including live camera feeds of convenience centers, on the ENV website.
Condominiums and commercial properties may take advantage of waived tip fees for direct deliveries of large quantities of Christmas trees to the composting facility during the holiday season. Property managers should contact ENV’s Refuse Division at (808) 768-3200 (Option 7) to coordinate bulk tree deliveries.
Recycling Christmas trees reduces landfill waste and supports local composting efforts. ENV thanks the community for helping keep O‘ahu clean and green.