{"id":83830,"date":"2025-12-29T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83830\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:52:18","slug":"give-your-christmas-tree-a-fir-well-at-brooklyn-mulchfest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83830\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Your Christmas Tree a \u2018Fir-Well\u2019 at Brooklyn Mulchfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can take their trees to 24 locations through Jan. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas has come and gone and soon it&#8217;s time to take down those decorations \u2014 and now what to do to with the tree?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brooklynites can join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Parks<\/a> to recycle their Christmas trees into wood chips through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/highlights\/festivals\/mulchfest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mulchfest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With 24\u00a0drop-off sites in Brooklyn, residents can drop off their trees now through Jan. 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of all chipping sites in Brooklyn \u2014 mulch is available at the chipping sites marked with an asterisk (*):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"screen-shot-2025-12-29-at-100428-am\" id=\"file-4265418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screen-shot-2025-12-29-at-100428-am.png;w=960.png\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n. Photo: Supplied\/NYC Parks&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Brooklynites should remove all tree stands, tinsel, lights and ornaments from the trees before they are put out for collection. Clean, non-bagged Christmas trees left on the curb will be chipped, mixed with leaves and recycled into rich compost for the city&#8217;s parks, institutions and community gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial trees can be set out as garbage on your regular collection day. Remove the metal pole and base if possible and set out with your recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents can take their trees to 24 locations through Jan. 11. Christmas has come and gone and soon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,40335,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-83830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mulchfest","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}