About the Committee

The McLean Trees Committee differs from other MCA Committees because its members earn money through the sale of newspapers collected for recycling and the Committee has the independent authority to spend those funds. Members also help collect papers on Saturdays, plant and maintain trees along roadways, in parks, and around paublic buildings, schools, churches, shopping centers, and other facilities, as well as in the central McLean business district.

The Committee requests that McLean residents bring their newspapers to Cooper Intermediate School where they maintain their recycling bins instead of taking them to other locations or leaving them for the County to collect.

The Committee meets on an ad hoc basis as needed.