NEWS: Last Weekend to Recycle Holiday Waste With Wake's Holiday Wrap Up

1/15/2009

Wake County’s annual Holiday Wrap Up Recycling Event will end on Monday, January 19, 2009. The program allows citizens to recycle a variety of celebration waste, including wrapping paper, trees, gift boxes and greeting cards. Since the program began on December 26, 2008, more than 2,900 Christmas trees have been collected. The current Christmas tree collection rate puts Holiday Wrap Up 2009 on pace to surpass the previous record of 3,000 trees collected in 2008.

The County's program will accept the following materials: Christmas trees (remove ornaments, lights and tinsel); corrugated cardboard; chip board (paper roll tubes, cereal boxes, etc.); glossy magazines/catalogs; greeting cards; SBS board (shirt boxes, etc.); and wrapping paper (no bows or foil).

Materials can be recycled at five Convenience Centers. Convenience Centers are open from 7 am. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.

Convenience Center #1 – 1050 Old Stage Road in Garner
Convenience Center #2 – 6000 Old Smithfield Road in Apex
Convenience Center #4 – 3600 Yates Mill Pond Road in South Raleigh
Convenience Center #7 – 9008 Deponie Drive in North Raleigh
Convenience Center #11 – 5051 Wendell Boulevard between Wendell and Zebulon

Trees Only

Wake County citizens can recycle their Christmas trees at the following Wake County Parks until January 19. All County parks are open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Blue Jay Point County Park – 3200 Pleasant Union Church Road in Raleigh
Harris Lake County Park – 2112 County Park Drive in New Hill
Lake Crabtree County Park – 1400 Aviation Parkway in Morrisville

Christmas trees are chipped and used as cover material for County park trails.

For more information, call Wake County Solid Waste Management at 856-6186 or visit www.WakeGov.com/recycling.

 

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