By DEANNA WULFF
Once the traditional holiday frenzy has ended, homes are filled with crumpled wrapping paper, empty boxes, scattered greeting cards and dried out Christmas trees.
To help clean up the mess, the Sunnyvale Recycling Center and several businesses are accepting a variety of seasonal leftovers.
Sunnyvale Recycling Center, 1444 Borregas Ave., accepts cardboard boxes and wrapping paper year-round between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. The center will pick up trees during its weekly waste pickup at single-family residences between Jan. 2 and 19.
People living in multi-family residences can drop off trees on Jan. 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the recycling center or the Sunnyvale Nursery, 1485 Sunny-vale-Saratoga Road. The trees must be cut in 4-foot pieces and cannot have decorations or flocking.
Two Sunnyvale packing stores will take a variety of gift leftovers.
Mailboxes Etc., 1111 W. El Camino Real, accepts plastic bubble wrap and Styrofoam packing peanuts. The store's hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays.
JDM Packing, 176 E. Fremont Ave., takes packing peanuts, cardboard boxes, paper and plastic bubble wrap. JDM is open weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Greeting cards can be recycled at St. Jude's Ranch for Children, an organization outside of Las Vegas that helps neglected and abused children. Send the fronts of cards to St. Jude's Ranch for Children, 100 Saint Jude's St., Boulder City, Nev., 89005.
For more information, call the Sunnyvale Recycling Center at 734-7681.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun Wednesday, December 27, 1995.
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