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SIERRA VISTA — This season, try decorating your Christmas tree with recycled objects.
Then recycle your tree.
If you are still looking to add to your tree, inspiration can be found from the “Trash to Treasure” on display at the Sierra Vista Public Library.
Jeanine Morris, owner of A&T Recycling, and Pat Molidor, the business’ general manager, used items that had been brought in for recycling to decorate the tree for the Festival of Trees, a Sierra Vista Hospital Foundation fundraiser.
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“We looked around in our recycling yard, got some ideas and used our imagination,” she said.
Everything but the lights and tree itself was made with recycled materials — singing angels out of painted aluminum cans, a soda tab garland, faucet handle snow flakes and stars and stockings cut from copper sheeting. Even the angel on top of the tree had a skirt made from an old stove top filter.
“Everything on there was brought in from the community,” she said.
After buying the tree, Councilwoman Hank Huisking and her husband, Pete, donated it to the library to help remind residents to recycle their aluminum cans, newspapers, magazines and phone books.
Other items are not being picked up, so be sure to have the right materials in your recycling bins, Huisking said.
And those with live trees are encouraged to recycle their trees when it’s time to put away their holiday decor.
Tree recycling begins today for city residents and is extended to all county residents beginning Dec. 29 and running through Jan. 9.
Christmas trees can be dropped off at the city of Sierra Vista’s Compost Facility, located off Highway 90 at mile marker 325.
Drop off times are Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
City trash customers can have all yard waste, including Christmas trees, picked up throughout the year for free by calling 458-7530 to schedule. Special pick-ups are scheduled each Wednesday, with at least 24-hour advance notice.
Residents with live trees can donate them to the city. The trees will be picked up and cared for until a suitable planting location can be determined. For details, call Bryan Manning at 458-7922.
For information on this and other environmental programs, call the Department of Public Works at 458-5775.
The trees will be transported by the Cochise County Solid Waste Department to the Sierra Vista Compost Facility, where they will be processed and made into compost, which is available for purchase.
If you have a live tree you would like to donate to the county, call 803-3770 to make arrangements. These live trees will be planted at a neighboring transfer station or the Western Regional Landfill for beautification purposes and will be planted and cared for by Department of Corrections Inmates.
For information about recycling, call the county Solid Waste Department at 803-3770.
Herald/Review reporter Laura Ory can be reached at 515-4683 or by e-mail at laura.ory@svherald.com.
Jumper wrote on Dec 22, 2008 9:07 AM: