How to Recycle your Christmas Tree
Do you keep looking out into your backyard and seeing your dead Christmas tree just laying there waiting for your to do something with it? Well you are not the only one. Millions of people each year buy cut tree’s for Christmas and the holidays. But most people do not know what to do with their tree when the Holidays are over. You may not know that there are several great ways to recycle your tree without throwing it in a hopper at your local dump.
One great way to recycle your tree is to have it chipped into bark mulch for use in your garden and in your yard. You can ask around you may have a neighbor that owns a small wood chipper, or call your local hauler such as Waste Management, Nauset Disposal or Allied Waste. A Christmas tree is so small that chipping it is not much work at all.
A tree also makes a great refuge and feeding area for fish in a private fish pond. If you live near a pond or have your own private pond you can sink your tree into the pond and your fish with love to use it.
You can bury your tree in the backyard and it will decompose back into the earth and make for great soil later down the road.
Most towns on the Cape allow you to bring your Christmas tree to your transfer station for dumping. They will then chip the trees and let the town use the wood chips for gardening and plantings.
Next year you may want to think about buying a rooted tree that you can then plant in your yard in the Spring. For the past two years my family has chosen to buy a rooted tree. While you can bring a live tree in your home for a few days at Christmas, we choose to keep ours on our deck. We then decorate it with lights and non breakable decorations. We turn the lights on each night and enjoy our tree through our sliding glass door through the Holidays. Then in the Spring we plant the tree on our property. What is great about this is that a live tree is only $10-30 more than a cut tree that you will only be able to enjoy for a couple weeks. With a live tree you can enjoy it for the rest of your life.
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