Where To Recycle Your Christmas Tree Around Barnegat-Manahawkin

BARNEGAT-MANAHAWKIN, NJ — Done with your fresh-cut Christmas tree, but need somewhere to bring it?

The Ocean County Parks and Recreation Department offers several collection sites at the county's parks for people to drop off their trees so they can be recycled. (See the list below.)

Trees dropped off at the parks are turned into wood chips, and the wood chips are available to residents for their home landscaping, as well as being used by the county for its landscaping projects and trail work. Trees also are used at Natural Lands sites.

You can drop off your trees to these Barnegat and Manahawkin-area Ocean County park locations through Jan. 31:

• Cloverdale Farm County Park, 34 Cloverdale Road, Barnegat Township
• Wells Mills County Park, 905 Route 532, Ocean Township
• Freedom Fields County Park, 1160 Route 539, Little Egg Harbor Township
• Stanley H."Tip" Seaman County Park, 120 Lakeside Drive, Tuckerton
• A. Paul King County Park, 2 W. Bay Ave., Stafford Township
• Ocean County Golf Course at Atlantis, 261 Country Club Blvd., Little Egg Harbor Township

Christmas trees also are accepted at the Northern and Southern Recycling Centers year-round during regular business hours (7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Saturday). The Southern Recycling Center is located at 379 Haywood Road, Manahawkin. The Northern Recycling Center is located at 535 Oberlin Ave. South, Lakewood.