The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for December 26, 2018

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I feel your pain, Koko.

Some people actually DO dig up a Christmas tree, root ball and all, and replant them after they are finished with them, but not many. It’s O.K. though, Koko, they will still serve as mulch, helping new plants and trees to grow so the squirrels will have new places to play and hide from you…

Christmas trees are grown as a crop, just the same as broccoli or parsley. People that have fake Christmas trees, thinking they are “environmentalists”, are the problem. And then there are the people that throw their trees out on the curb even though the garbage pickup of said trees is on 6th January, which is after the 12 days of Christmas and the beginning of Epiphany. The City I live in has Christmas tree pick-up after Christmas, on the 6th—but there are plenty of dullards that have their trees tossed out and laying there for many days. They are lucky they don’t get a ticket for littering.

Here’s a map of all the Christmas tree shelters in the USA: http://howlandbolton.com/stcf/ShelterMap.html

Sounds fir enough to me.

There should be a movement to have only potted Christmas trees. If sufficiently watered they don’t dry and thus are much safer – not to talk about much less scattering your home with needles.

Then they could be collected afterwards by the communal green department or whatever city authority is responsible for the parks and such in your place. After some days in cool greenhouses to recover from heated places they could be planted in Parks and communal woods – or transported en bulk to reforestation areas

A chipper will make it into something lots of other plants can use, making it immortal.

The do: They are called “Barrier Reefs”

The city has tree disposal at the city park parking lots. They shred them and you can get free tree mulch for a week. The county takes trees at their parking lots and attaches weights for reefs in the parks’ lakes.

They dump them with the ornaments still on them?

They also never get to have a dog mark their trunk.

Koko you are one of the sweetest doggies I know…..

Around here the Department of Natural Resources collects discarded trees to lower into lakes to provide habitat for fish.