San Francisco Christmas trees to become biofuel

In California, Christmas trees in San Francisco will be converted into biofuel as part of the city’s 25th annual “Treecycling” program. Recology SF will collect Christmas trees from city residents in January in order to divert the fir trees from Bay Area landfills. The company will pick up trees curbside, turn them into wood chips and sell the chips to energy-generating facilities in Tracy and Woodland to be used as biomass.
The private plants for cogeneration purchase the wood chips from Recology each year at around $10 per bone-dry ton. The profit goes to offset Recology’s cost of collection. Last year, about 514 tons of Christmas trees were collected in San Francisco.

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