How to dispose of Your Christmas Tree

The city’s Bureau of Sanitation is offering curbside pick-up of Christmas trees, and will also accept them at 18 drop-off locations on Jan. 4, Los Angeles officials announced today.

Trees can be either cut up and placed into the green waste recycling bins, or placed next to the green bins on trash day.

Decorations, tinsel and other ornaments should be removed from the trees.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said dried Christmas tree are a fire risk, so the city is making it “easy and free for Angelenos to dispose of them.”

The city’s practice of recycling the trees into mulch and compost also saves the city money and avoids wasting landfill space, he said.

The drop-off locations, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 4 to accept Christmas trees, are:

-- Baldwin Hills: Rancho Cienega Recreation Center, 5001 Rodeo Road;

-- Encino: Balboa Sports Center, 17015 Burbank Blvd;

-- Griffith Park: the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot at the junction of the 5 and 134 freeways;

-- Rancho Park: Cheviot Hills Recreation Center, 2551 Motor Ave.;

-- Sunland: Sunland Park, 8651 Foothill Blvd;

-- Westchester: Westchester Municipal Building, 7166 West Manchester Ave.;

-- Bel-Air: Fire Station No. 71, 107 S. Beverly Glen Blvd.;

-- Crenshaw: Fire Station No. 94, 4470 Coliseum St.;

-- Cypress Park: Fire Station No. 44, 1410 Cypress Ave.;

-- Hancock Park: Fire Station No. 29, 4029 W. Wilshire Blvd.;

-- Hollywood: Fire Station No. 82, 5769 Hollywood Blvd.;

-- Franklin Canyon: Fire Station No. 108, 12520 Mulholland Drive;

-- Porter Ranch: Fire Station No. 28, 11641 Corbin Ave.;

-- Sherman Oaks: Fire Station No. 88, 5101 N. Sepulveda Blvd.;

-- South Los Angeles: Fire Station No. 21, 1192 E. 51st St.;

-- South Los Angeles: Fire Station No. 64, 10811 S. Main St.;

-- Sun Valley: Fire Station No. 77, 9224 Sunland Blvd.;

-- Watts: Fire Station No. 65, 1801 E. Century Blvd.; and

-- West Hills: Fire Station No. 106, 23004 Roscoe Blvd.

• City News Service