Before you throw away your tree, you may want to remove small branches to use as mulch in your garden. Alternatively, you could place the entire tree in a chipper-shredder to create a finer mulch. Although bare and discarded Christmas trees already line Toronto streets, there is no curbside collection of Christmas trees in the City of Kawartha Lakes. But Christmas trees are accepted at all city landfills.

Kawartha landfill hours this weekend

Landfills in the Kawarthas are following winter hours, which end on April 30, 2016. Below, we’ve listed their weekend hours, since we know you’re a weekender.

Laxton landfill

• Open Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Address: 3225 Monck Road
• Located on Kawartha Lakes Road 45 (also known as Monck Road), about two kilometres west of Norland on the right-hand (north) side

Eldon landfill

• Open Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Address: 311 Rockview Road
• Travel west from Kirkfield on Kawartha Lakes Road 48. Turn left or travel south onto Rockview Road. The landfill is about three kilometres south on the right-hand (west) side

Fenelon landfill

• Open Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Address: 341 Mark Road
• Travel north from Cameron on Highway 35. Turn left (west) on Chambers Road, then right (north) onto Mark Road. The landfill site is about 3.5 kilometres north on the left (west) side

Lindsay Ops landfill

• Open Saturdays from 8:00 .am. to 3:00 p.m.
• Address: 51 Wilson Road
• North-east of Lindsay, off Kawartha Lakes Road 36. Drive north and turn left (west) onto Wilson Road (at the first bend past the site of the correctional facility). The landfill is about 0.5 kilometres away on the left-hand (west) side.