City of Sidney plans tree pickup

SIDNEY, Ohio (Sidney Daily News) - Weather permitting, Sidney city crews will begin picking up discarded Christmas trees along with yard waste the week of Jan. 9. It will be the only week scheduled in January for yard waste pickup.

Trees will be transported to the city's compost area to be chipped for mulch, which is offered free of charge to gardeners each spring.

There will be no charge for Christmas tree pickup and no yard waste stickers are required for the trees, only for any yard waste.

Residents are asked to place trees at curbs by 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 9. All ornaments, wires and other decorations must be removed from trees.

Crews plan to have all trees and yard waste removed by week's end on Jan. 14.

Because Allied Waste and other commercial waste haulers are not permitted to handle Christmas trees, many villages also collect and grind discarded trees for mulch and also place them in farm ponds to create fish cover.

In past years, trees have been submerged as fish cover at Lake Loramie State Park, although Park Manager George Sholtis was not available this week to say if the practice will be continued in 2012.

Questions concerning local tree collections may be addressed to the Sidney Service Center, 498-8117.