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Tree recycling available through Saturday

By Bill Moss, Published: December 18, 2014

Henderson County offers a number of ways to recycle those gift boxes, catalogs, Christmas trees and dead strands of Christmas lights.

Christmas trees can be taken to ball field #3 at Jackson Park to be mulched through Saturday, Jan. 10.

MountainTrue (the newly merged ECO, WNCA and JMCA), King Hardware, Henderson County Parks & Recreation and the City of Hendersonville Public Works will accept holiday cards and nonworking strands of Christmas lights on Jan. 10 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Contact MountainTrue for more information at (828) 692-0385.

The Henderson County 4-H Club accepts nonworking or unusable strands of Christmas lights for recycling year-round.

The Henderson County Convenience Center and Transfer Station is open regular hours Monday through Saturday. It accepts a wide variety of materials year-round for recycling, making it convenient for residents to reduce waste that would normally end up in the landfill.

The Convenience Center accepts mixed paper, including wrapping paper, gift tissue paper, holiday and greeting cards, phone books, junk mail, magazines, newspapers, and paperback or hardbound books. Cardboard is also accepted and all boxes should be flattened before entering the bins at the Center. All plastics and gable top beverage containers can be recycled, and lids can be left on these items though the containers themselves should be rinsed before being recycled. Citizens can also recycle all colors of glass, as well as aluminum and steel cans. A recycling brochure with more information about all recyclable items can be found online under the Henderson County Solid Waste webpage.