In brief

Beginning next week, Newport Beach’s trash collection crews will pick

up Christmas trees to turn them into mulch for the city’s parks.

To deal with the high volume of discarded trees after the holidays,

the city has hired a contractor to collect many of them this week.

City officials said residents should cut the trees into 4-foot pieces,

tie the branches in bundles with string and place them on top of the

trash cans on regular trash collection days.

David Niederhaus, the city’s general services director, said

residents should remove tree stands and any remaining metal from the tree

before leaving it out for collection.

Niederhaus also said residents who usually have trash picked up

Mondays will have a delayed collection next week because of New Year’s

Day. The Monday collection will take place Tuesday and all other areas of

the city will also be taken care of one day later than usual throughout

the week.

There will be no street sweeping Monday in the city as well.

Information: (949) 644-3055.