{"id":376688,"date":"2025-12-30T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:10:10","slug":"west-seattle-blog-tree-cycling-one-reason-you-dont-have-to-rush-your-tree-out-one-reason-not-to-let-it-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376688\/","title":{"rendered":"West Seattle Blog\u2026 | TREE-CYCLING: One reason you don\u2019t have to rush your tree out. One reason not to let it linger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-recycling.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" this=\"\" week=\"\" after=\"\" christmas=\"\" we=\"\" reminding=\"\" you=\"\" about=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/atyourservice.seattle.gov\/2025\/11\/21\/2025-winter-holiday-waste-collection-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\"\/>Seattle Public Utilities\u2019 policies\/schedule regarding Christmas-tree disposal:<\/p>\n<p>Customers can compost trees and holiday greens for free from December 26 \u2013 January 31! Remove all decorations, cut into sections 4-foot or less, and place trees or bundled greens next to your Food &amp; Yard Waste cart on your regular collection day. Apartment residents may place up to two trees next to each Food &amp; Yard waste cart at no charge. You can also drop off up to 3 trees less than 8 feet in length at a Transfer Station.  <\/p>\n<p>And also, a reminder that the \u201cregular collection day\u201d is disrupted for some again this week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westseattleblog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/januarycollection.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/januarycollection-652x547.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1138544\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No change for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday pickup customers, but no collection on Thursday, so Thursday customers will get pickup on Friday, Friday customers will get pickup on Saturday. The transfer stations are closed on New Year\u2019s Day too. So bottom line, you have until the end of January for free tree disposal \u2013 but if your tree is drying out, better to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/news-blogs-and-articles\/blogs\/2022\/11\/30\/christmas-trees-present-potential-fire-hazards-enjoy-them-with-care-and-caution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">avoid fire risk<\/a> by not letting it stay until it\u2019s unsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Public Utilities\u2019 policies\/schedule regarding Christmas-tree disposal: Customers can compost trees and holiday greens for free from December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-376688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}