New York, January 6 (EFE).- The city of New York today began harvesting tens of thousands of Christmas trees that residents usually leave on the street and which accounted for an average of 50,000 abandoned trees in recent years.
The waste service will collect them from today to January 14, and has asked all residents for minimum rules to optimize the service: leave them in separate places from garbage bags, completely remove all types of decorations and lights from their branches and do not wrap them in plastic or paper.
Trees of all sizes are then cut and chipped into chips, mixed with leaves and composted to feed the city’s parks and gardens.
In the case of neighbors who want to recover their own compost, the park service provides several “chipping” points where families can recover their trees in the form of sawdust for free.
Last year, the park service harvested 50,600 trees from the streets of New York City, including several thousand from businesses that unsuccessfully put them up for sale. EFE extension
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