12/31/2025
We love sustainability! What to do with your Christmas trees this year!
Christmas has passed and the age old question of what do you do with your Christmas tree once you've unburied it from all of the wrapping paper is upon us. When you're ready and all of your decorations are off of your tree and it's time to take down those wreaths, what should you do?
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Arbor Day Foundation have some great ideas on how to show our wildlife some love and use your Christmas trees and wreaths for anything from bird habitat, a fish feeder, or even coasters!
For more information and ideas:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/your-christmas-trees-and-holiday-wreaths-can-double-as-bird-habitat/
https://www.arborday.org/perspectives/8-uses-your-tree-after-christmas
Or it can be donated for recycling!
https://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/tree-recycling.aspx
Photo: DNR Staff deploy weighted recycled Christmas trees to create fish habitat in Wye Mills Lake, winter 2020.