When you’re ready to take the ornaments off your Christmas tree and put away all your decorations, you may be wondering what you can do with your holiday decor, like your gift bags, cards, paper, and (of course) your tree.
We suggest to recycle it. Recycling your tree is easy.
- Williamson County Convenience Centers have year-round bins for clean yard waste. After removing all decorations, nails and tinsel, trees can be taken by Williamson County residents to any county convenience center where it will become mulch.
- The cities of Franklin, Fairview and Brentwood have scheduled tree drop-off locations at local parks.
For a list of parks where you can take your tree, click here. - City of Franklin residents may also recycle trees with the Blue Bag curbside recycling program.
Click here for more information including dates and locations where you can recycle your Christmas tree.
You can also call on the band students at Ravenwood for help recycling your tree. They will be out picking up and recycling Christmas Trees for a donation! They are asking for $10.00 but will gladly take more!
All donations help students pay for band related programs including Marching Band–Winter Programs–Mid State and All-State.
Visit www.ravenwoodband.com to sign up.
Pick up days are:
12-27-14- Saturday
12-28-14-Sunday
1-3-15-Saturday
1-4-15- Sunday
1-10-15-Saturday
- Gift wrapping paper, excluding foil paper, can be recycled with mixed paper at any Williamson County convenience center.
- Please remove bows, tape, and stickers before recycling.
- Foil wrapping paper is not recyclable.
- Break down cardboard boxes and recycle at any Williamson County convenience center in the cardboard bin.
- Remove stickers, foam, tissue, and tape before recycling.
- St. Jude’s Ranch for Children has a year-round card recycling program where holiday, birthday, and thank you cards are remade into a new card as a fundraising project to benefit the hospital. Click here to learn more about this reuse program.
- You can also recycle your holiday cards as mixed paper at any Williamson County convenience center as long as cards are without any non-paper embellishments like foil or ribbon.
Foam packing peanuts are reusable products. Many UPS stores in Williamson County accept and reuse packing peanuts. Please call ahead.
