What Should I do with My Christmas Tree when the Season Ends?

If your Christmas tree is anything like mine right about now, it's dried out and shedding pine needles all over the living room floor. But what shouldI do with the tree?Fortunately,Denver has created a program to recycle your Christmas tree intofree mulch that's available to the public in May! TheTreecycle program "is a great way to return a renewable and natural resource back to the environment instead of disposing it in a landfill. In landfills, organic material decomposes under anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions, producing methane gas, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide."

Simply remove your decorations and stand and place the tree 4 feet away from your dumpster on either the 3rd or 9th of January if you have dumpster service. If you have barrel or manual service, place your tree out with your normal garbage collection on days between Januray 3rd through the 13th.

There are also 2 drop off sites through the end of January:

Havana Nursery