Don’t go away your Christmas tree on the curb for the landfill when you may drop it off in one in all 174 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 should you’re nonetheless doing that to your tree you in all probability don’t give a sh** concerning the planet anyway)
- minimize or rooted, each are accepted so long as they’re actual bushes and never plastic bushes
Many of the assortment factors are open 24/7, simply examine the web site for the one closest to you.
Enjoyable reality: In 2018 the town collected 85,209 bushes, and in 2021 they collected 124,488 bushes!
Be aware: if you are going to buy one in all these compostable Christmas tree baggage (sac à sapin) created 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 value you pay goes to the non-profit Handicap Worldwide. If you happen to take your tree to a drop-off level in a daily plastic bag, you’ll want to take away it earlier than throwing your tree onto the pile for mulching.
