{"id":12100,"date":"2019-01-02T18:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2019-01-02T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:31:35","slug":"holiday-tree-recycling-program-opens-on-january-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=12100","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tree Recycling Program opens on January 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tree-Recycling-Program.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation and the Chicago Park District announced that the City&#8217;s 30th annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclebycity.com\/chicago\/brief?utm_source=2nd+Ward+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=b8babacf9b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_02_05_33&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a38d3733c-b8babacf9b-182594933\">holiday tree recycling program<\/a>\u00a0will run from Saturday, January 5th, through Saturday, January 19th, at\u00a025 locations citywide.<\/p>\n<p>Live holiday trees can be dropped off inside tree corrals set up at any one of the 25 designated Chicago Park District locations. The holiday tree recycling program is not able to accept wreaths or garlands. Ornaments, lights\u00a0and tinsels must be removed before the tree is dropped off and trees should be removed from any bags when placed in the tree recycling corrals.<\/p>\n<p>Trees recycled through the program are turned into mulch, wood chips for use at Chicago Park Districts and materials for use by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some nearby locations:<\/p>\n<div>\u2022 Garfield Park, 100 N. Central Park Ave.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Grant Park, 900 S. Columbus Dr.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1369 N. Sacramento Ave.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Lincoln Park*, Cannon Dr. at Fullerton Ave. (Parking lot east of Cannon Dr.)<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Walsh Park, 1722 N. Ashland<\/div>\n<p>For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclebycity.com\/chicago\/brief?utm_source=2nd+Ward+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=b8babacf9b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_02_05_33&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a38d3733c-b8babacf9b-182594933\">www.recyclebycity.com\/chicago\/brief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0Brian Hopkins, 2nd Ward Alderman 1\/2\/19 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation and the Chicago Park District announced that the City&#8217;s 30th annual\u00a0holiday tree recycling program\u00a0will run from Saturday, January 5th, through Saturday, January 19th, at\u00a025 locations citywide. Live holiday trees can be dropped off inside tree corrals set up at any one of the 25 designated Chicago Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}