Recycle Your Christmas Tree ⋆ Secrets and techniques of Paris

Don’t depart your Christmas tree on the curb for the landfill when you may drop it off in considered one of 176 assortment factors round Paris (largely in parks and inexperienced areas) to be recycled into mulch to be used by Paris’s municipal gardeners as a pure weed prevention cowl: http://www.paris.fr/recyclonsnossapins

Every year the Metropolis of Paris accepts bushes for recycling from December 26-January twentieth. They need to be:

• with out a plastic bag (take it out and throw out the bag when you drop it off)
• with out any decorations, flocking or tinsel (and in the event you’re nonetheless doing that to your tree you most likely don’t give a sh** in regards to the planet anyway)
• minimize or rooted, each are accepted so long as they’re actual bushes and never plastic bushes

A lot of the assortment factors are open 24/7, simply verify the web site for the one closest to you. 

Enjoyable reality: In 2022 town collected 114,272 bushes!

Word: if you buy considered one of these compostable Christmas tree baggage (sac à sapin) constructed from cornstarch, you not solely can use it to take your tree to the drop-opp level with out getting pine needles in every single place, a part of the worth you pay goes to the non-profit Handicap Worldwide. When you take your tree to a drop-off level in a daily plastic bag, be sure you take away it earlier than throwing your tree onto the pile for mulching.