U.S. News & World Report: Chop Up That Old Christmas Tree
Filed under: Earth 911 - December 21, 2007
By Marc Silver
The rotating blades of a chipper would love to shred your Christmas evergreen. And that would make Al Gore (and Mother Earth) very happy.
Americans buy more than 30 million real holiday trees. The worst fate for the evergreens: a landfill, where they don’t decompose well. The best choice: “treecycling.”
Georgians can visit one of 378 spots participating in “Bring One for the Chipper,” a program that has shredded over 4.8 million trees into aromatic mulch. Louisianians in Shreveport collect about 5,000 trees a year and ship them to southern wetlands, where the trees build landmass. Other municipalities have curbside pickup. Plug your zip code into Earth 911’s website, and check the nearly 4,000 options it has compiled.