Thursday, January 10, 2013
Medfield Boy Scout Troop 89 will pick up your Christmas tree on Saturday, Jan. 12.
The last day for Medfield Boy Scout Troop 89 to pick up your Christmas tree for recycling is this Saturday, Jan. 12. This service is for Medfield residents only. For more information, contact medfieldtroop89@hotmail.com or 508-359-1574. Pickup fees are based on tree size, with regular size trees at $12. Oversized trees (10’ tall or over 5’ wide) are $17. Wreaths or garland can be picked up for an additional $2/wreath. Additional trees can be picked up for an additional $5 per tree. Trees must be outside the home by 8 a.m. on the day of pickup, preferably at the curbside. Cash or checks made out to BSA Troop 89 are accepted and should be secured to the tree, your mailbox, or your front door. All proceeds will support Troop 89’s ongoing …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
State fire marshal says trees have been involved in fires.
State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan today urged community members to dispose of their Christmas trees properly. Christmas trees kept too long after the holiday have been involved in fires, including one at a Lunenberg condominium last Jan. 9, Coan said in a press release. In Medfield, Boy Scout Troop 89 will pick up your Christmas tree (and wreaths, etc) on Jan. 5 and Jan. 12. For more information, contact MedfieldTroop89@hotmail.com Also, residents can leave their Christmas trees at the Medfield Transfer Station. MassDEP says that Bay Staters buy one million cut Christmas trees each year. "Simply throwing them away would not only be a waste of reusable resources, but a disposal problem. If all the cut trees sold in Massachusetts this holiday …
Monday, January 3, 2011
MassDEP reminds residents to be safe and environmentally conscious post-holidays.
As Medfield residents clean up those last remnants of the holidays, the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection and Medfield Department of Public Works want to remind folks to dispose of and recycle Christmas trees properly. The Department of Public Works asks that Christmas trees be brought to the transfer station so they can properly dispose of them. "We take [the trees] at the transfer station, [residents] have to bring them to us," said Kenneth Feeney, Superintendent of Medfield Public Works. "We do recycle them. We chip them up and put them into the compost and reuse them so there's a little bit of recycling going on there." Trees can also be picked up by local boy scouts, according to Feeney, and brought to the transfer station…
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