Citizens taking advantage of free mulch leaves sites without any...
WHAT: The Solid Waste Department sites are temporarily out of
mulch, due to high demand by Laredo citizens
WHEN & February 1, 2005
WHERE: Mulch is available all year round at the following locations:
Behind the Laredo Public Library or at 618 Del Mar Blvd.
WHY: The City of Laredo provides citizens with free mulch, made
from the yard waste, made up of grass clippings, green leaves, brown leaves and wood chips, collected by the Solid Waste Department.
Residents have been taking advantage of this service and have been picking up mulch yard waste and spreading it in their gardens. There
is always mulch available, but this year, the demand for mulch was higher than expected and the sites ran out.
This is great news, said Willie Bote, the environmentally-friendly trashcan mascot for the Solid Waste Department. This means that
residents are taking advantage of the benefits that mulch does for their gardens, he added.
Mulch keeps soil loose and moist, smothers weeds, prevents soil erosion, and releases nutrients as the material decomposes. Also, it an easy
way to put natures recycling system to work, instead of depending on manufactured fertilizers, concluded, Sylvia Garza, Recycling Coordinator
for the City of Laredo.
Currently, all Laredo Fire Stations are accepting discarded, clean Christmas trees. Once those are collected, the trees, and other yard waste the
sanitation workers collect on regularly scheduled routes will soon be ground up into mulch, to have ready by the end of January.
For more information, please contact the Solid Waste Department at (956) 795-2510.
