Parish officials say unflocked live trees can be recycled to support coastal restoration efforts.<\/p>\n
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. \u2014 Now that the gifts are unwrapped and the Christmas holiday is over, parishes in Louisiana are collecting discarded natural Christmas trees to be used for Louisiana coastal restoration.<\/p>\n
Here is how to recycle your used natural Christmas tree in certain parishes.<\/p>\n
\nOrleans Parish <\/p>\n
Orleans Parish residents can participate in the program through the following options:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dec. 26 through Jan. 4: Call 311 to request curbside pickup using the \u201cChristmas Tree\u201d service request. A contractor will collect the first 400 trees requested through 311.\u00a0Jan. 5 through Jan. 9: Place trees on the curb by 5 a.m. on your regular garbage collection day. A recycling truck will follow the regular garbage truck.\u00a0French Quarter and Downtown Development District: Residents should place trees curbside before 4 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8 only.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Trees cannot be flocked or have remnants of tinsel. All ornamentation, lighting, and tree stand bases must be removed before recycling pick up. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nJefferson Parish <\/p>\n
Jefferson Parish officials are reminding residents to recycle live Christmas trees after the holidays to help the coastal restoration effort.<\/p>\n
According to the parish, residents will have two options to recycle eligible trees in January.<\/p>\n
Residents may drop off live Christmas trees at designated sites from Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, through Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at the following locations:
\u2022 David Drive, 400 David Drive, Metairie
\u2022 Lapalco Boulevard, 6440 Lapalco Blvd., Marrero<\/p>\n
Trees may also be placed curbside the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, for collection on one of the following dates:
\u2022 Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026
\u2022 Friday, Jan. 9, 2026
\u2022 Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026<\/p>\n
To be accepted, trees must meet these requirements:
\u2022 No flocked, artificial, or painted trees
\u2022 No lights, garland, tinsel, ornaments, tree stands, or plastic bags<\/p>\n
Parish officials say thousands of trees are recycled each year and used to build wave-dampening fences in the Barataria Basin to help reduce coastal erosion.<\/p>\n
The parish\u2019s 2026 Christmas Tree Recycling event is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Volunteer sign-up information is available on the Jefferson Parish website.<\/a><\/p>\n Residents with questions about tree collection can contact the Jefferson Parish Department of Environmental Affairs at (504) 731-4612.<\/p>\n
From December 29, 2025, to January 14, 2026, residents can drop off trees for recycling at the following locations:<\/p>\n East Bank Bridge Park – 13244 River Rd, Destrehan, LA 70047West Bank Bridge Park – 13825 River Rd, Luling, LA 70070IMTT Field – 276 Pirate Drive, St. Rose, LA 70087Monsanto Park – 13201 River Rd, Luling, LA 70070Montz Park – 100 Calcagno Street, Montz, LA 70068Des Allemands Playground – 1471 WPA Road, Des Allemands, LA 70030 <\/p>\n Trees can also be placed curbside the evening of January 4 for collection from January 5 to 7, 2026. The following are the requirements to have trees recycled in the marsh:\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n No artificial trees\u202fNo painted treesNo flocked trees\u202fNo ornaments\u202f\u202fNo stands\u202f\u202fNo lights\u202f\u202fNo bags\u202f <\/p>\n Click here to report a typo.<\/a><\/p>\n \u25ba\u00a0Get breaking news from your neighborhood delivered directly to you by downloading the new FREE WWL-TV News app now in the\u00a0IOS App Store<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parish officials say unflocked live trees can be recycled to support coastal restoration efforts. JEFFERSON PARISH, La. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-375689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSt. Charles Parish <\/p>\n