Free Curbside Tree Pickup Underway In Algonquin

ALGONQUIN, IL — The village of Algonquin will offer free curbside tree recycling in coming weeks as well as holiday lights recycling through mid-January.

The village of Algonquin, in cooperation with Elgin Recycling, will offer holiday light recycling through January 17 at Ganek Municipal Center, 2200 Harnish Drive. In addition, Groot will offer free curbside collection of Christmas trees from Friday through January 26 on residents' regular collection day.

As far as the holiday light recycling program, a container for unusable or unwanted lights will be available in the Ganek Municipal Center lobby during normal business hours.

Items that will be accepted include mini-lights, C7 lights, C9 lights, rope lights, LED lights, and extension cords of any length, village officials said. Residents are asked to Please remove all tinsel, garland, plastic casing, and other decoration items from the light sets before they are dropped off.

Elgin Recycling will recycle the lights collected at Ganek Municipal Center and help Algonquin reduce waste sent to landfills. Residents should also know that household light bulbs, floodlights, compact fluorescent bulbs or fluorescent bulbs will not be accepted.