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As you take down the decorations and start focusing on your New Year resolutions, you may start to think that the holiday in NYC are over. However, you would be wrong. Dead wrong.
Starting this Friday, January 4, you can bring your dumb, dead, past-its-prime Christmas tree to one of over 68 mulching sites across the city for New York’s annual MULCHFEST. (It’s a festival of mulching.)
Before you turn up your nose at this year’s festivities, Ebenezer Mulch, you should know that your fir-bulous donation will be recycled and used in tree beds in parks throughout the city. Over 25,000 trees were recycled last year, and the Department of Sanitation is hoping to top that number this year.
For an extra special momento, haul your tree down to a site over chipping weekend from January 12-13. During the hours of 10am–2pm on those days, you’ll be able to chip your tree on-site and then take home a bag of mulch to use in your backyard or as a winter bed for a street tree.
Also, in case you need in a reminder, the Parks Department asks you to please “remove all lights, ornaments and netting before bringing the tree to a Mulchfest site.” Because once your grandma’s porcelain angel tree-topper goes through the chipper, you’re probably not getting in back anytime soon, my friend.