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• CITY OF LA PORTE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM JANUARY 14, 1991 TO: Stan_Sherwood, Director of Parks and Recreation ~~- FROM: Bert Clark, Parks Superintendent SUBJECT: Christmas Tree Recovery and Recycling The Parks and Recreation Department working in conjunction with the Public Works Department collected and chipped 4,800 Christmas trees into pine bark mulch. Three (3) hundred of the trees were brought to the Public Works Department in exchange for Virginia Pine seedlings. The exchange of Christmas trees for Virginia Pine seedlings is a program that the Parks and Recreation Department initiated three years ago. After the Christmas celebration, citizens are encouraged (article in The Bayshore Sun) to bring their Christmas Trees to the Public Works Building where the trees are exchanged for six pine seedlings. This is done in an effort to minimize the number of trees that the Public Works must pick up at the citizens' residences. Chipping the trees circumvented the necessity of transporting the trees to the landfill which resulted in a savings of X4,066.00 in landfill fees. Additionally, chipping the trees provided the Parks Division with approximately thirty (30) cubic yards of mulch which will be utilized to cover the Little Cedar Bayou Nature Trail as well as many of the landscape beds that the Parks Department maintains. The thirty (30) cubic yards of pine bark mulch which was produced by the chipping of the Christmas trees translated into a savings of X420.00 in material costs. We also intend to submit an article to the Bayshore Sun describing the environmental impact of our Christmas tree recovery and recycling program.