No curbside pick-up for Christmas trees (San Antonio, Anton: how much, to buy, live)

[SabresFanInSA]

A lot of people are going to be putting up their Christmas trees this weekend but if you are planning to buy a live tree, a real tree, you might want to think ahead to how you plan to get rid of it after the holiday.

The City of San Antonio is not going to provide after-Christmas, curbside pick-up of trees. The decision was made after the city noticed a drop in the number of trees left out for pick-up in recent years.

At one time, crews were collecting 50-thousand trees. Last year they picked-up 12-thousand. City leaders estimate they'll be able to save up to $30-thousand dollars
by doing away with the curbside pick-up.

No curbside pick-up for Christmas trees | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News

[TexasRedneck]

Oh, THAT's a good decision. They forget that they STARTED doing it because of all the tree that were being dumped on the side of the roadways. Guess they'll have to learn that again...

[ged_782]

I heard about this on the radio the other day. It wasn't just the decline in participation of the tree pick-up, but implementation of the final phase of the automated garbage/recycling pick-up and phase-out of the manual collection crews & trucks, according to the report.

I guess they would have had to pull crews from scheduled brush/bulky item pick-up routes to do curbside pick-up of discarded Christmas trees.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by TexasRedneck

Oh, THAT's a good decision. They forget that they STARTED doing it because of all the tree that were being dumped on the side of the roadways. Guess they'll have to learn that again...

That's the problem with people that want "To cut spending of everything"
Not realizing that many things that we spend money on, are done that way to save us money.

I bunch of idiots are celebrating that "We are not spending $30,000 anymore"
I want to see the bill of how much is going to cost the city to go around the cleaning up all the trees that people are going to throw into creeks.

We need to stop the stupid "Knee-jerk populist policies" and start using our brains to make sound decisions.

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

One vote cast for "Piling the trees up at a safe location and burning them".

[Mom2Feebs]

Why in the world isn't the city doing a tree recycling program?!?! Wow. Lots of brainiacs in power, I guess.

[Bo]

Cut up the tree and put it in your city-issued 200-gallon garbage bin.

The city no longer does curbside pickup of bagged grass clippings either. Grass clippings can go in the garbage bin. If they're fine to send to the landfill via the brown bin, I see no reason why a tree can't be cut up and put into the same bin.

[ged_782]

Originally Posted by Mom2Feebs

Why in the world isn't the city doing a tree recycling program?!?! Wow. Lots of brainiacs in power, I guess.

They are still doing a tree recycling program, only this year they won't be doing the curbside pick-up. Instead, there will be 20 tree recycling drop-off locations available during two weekends in January.

[TexasRedneck]

Originally Posted by ged_782

They are still doing a tree recycling program, only this year they won't be doing the curbside pick-up. Instead, there will be 20 tree recycling drop-off locations available during two weekends in January.

.....and tell me - when folks can go to various sites to drop off OTHER stuff legally, yet STILL just dump it - what makes 'em think the trees will be any different?!??

[scuba steve]

Originally Posted by HillCountryHotRodMan

One vote cast for "Piling the trees up at a safe location and burning them".

Give the things a couple of months and they go off like a torch. Do it at night and you'll just about see it from space.