Every year, after Christmas, a program called “Green To Blue” sets up recycle centers at various parks throughout the city to take your Christmas tree and send it through the grinder, shedding it into a thousand bits of mulch.
See below:
Not only is it fun to watch, it’s a far better way of disposing of your Christmas tree than dumping it in the trash. So this morning I grabbed our tree and headed to our nearest participating location, Humboldt Park.
Most of the trees came into the park fastened on the top of a car’s roof, but my favorite way of getting a tree to the park came from this couple below:
The atmosphere is actually quite festive for what would seem like a sad event. For bringing in your tree, you’re offered a gift of either a compact fluorescent light bulb, a reusable water bottle, or blue recycling garbage bags. I took the bags.
So long tree. We shall all miss thee.