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NYC Parks Mulch Fest

Wrap up your holiday season and say goodbye to your tree at Mulchfest. Join NYC Parks and the New York City Department of Sanitation in the NYC holiday tradition of recycling your Christmas tree! Put on your boots and haul your tree to a Mulchfest location — we'll chip your tree into wood chips that we'll use to nourish trees and make NYC even greener.

More than 50,000 trees were recycled last year. Help us top this number!

Trees can be brought to Hunter’s Point South Park any time between December 26th and January 8th, but if you bring your tree to a chipping site on Chipping Weekend (January 7th & 8th) you can take home a tree-mento! Your tree will be chipped and you will receive your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree.

For more details and other tree drop off locations see: https://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest

Earlier Event: November 19
Oyster Monitoring
Later Event: January 8
NYC Parks Mulch Fest