Riverside County, Calif., has devised a way to handle all those excess Christmas trees and help marine life.
The Riverside County Waste Management Department and the California Department of Fish and Game are collecting the holiday conifers at county landfills and will provide them for fish habitat, the Press-Enterprise in Riverside reported.
The Department of Fish and Game will use the trees in local lakes and waterways to create protective habitat for small juvenile fish from larger predatory fish, the newspaper said.
The trees must have all decorations, lights, tinsel and tree stands removed. The Christmas trees will be provided to the Department of Fish and Game through a free Christmas tree drop-off program at the Badlands and Lamb Canyon landfill, the newspaper said.
Christmas trees recycled at other free drop-off sites or at the curb in the county will be taken to local green waste processors to be recycled into compost or mulch products, the newspaper said.
Source: Waste & Recycling News
By Shawn Wright