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Boy Scouts to Recycle Christmas Trees

CREATED Dec. 30, 2011

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The Boy Scouts are making it easier for you to get rid of your Christmas tree. Troops 282 and 558 will be in Omaha neighborhoods west of 72nd street, Gretna and Elkhorn. Trees will be picked up between 9 a.m.4 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

The drive serves as a recycling and ecological service project. The trees are taken to area drop sites, where they are ground, chipped or used as fish habitat material in area lakes.

Tree pick-up dates are: December 31st 2011 and January 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th ,14th and 15th of 2012. Boy Scouts and adult volunteers will collect trees from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day.

Those interested in this service must make a reservation 24 hours in advance by going to www.scouting4trees.org or by calling (402) 861-1234.

Below are the following zipcodes where the Boyscouts will be:

68022, 68028, 68114, 68116, 68118, 68122, 68124, 68127, 68130, 68134, 68135, 68136, 68137, 68138, 68142, 68144, 68154, and 68164

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