treecylcing.

I recently viewed a very interesting blog post by Tim Gibson of NYCHDR in which he shared a collection of photos of abandoned Christmas trees laying on the curbs of New York City in his post titled Used and Abused. At the end he described the New York Department of Sanitation’s new Christmas Tree Recycling program.

This reminded me of a program in place here in Eastern North Carolina that I really took interest in when I moved here. Trees can be dropped off at Fort Macon State Park and then begin their new life as part of the dunes there. When I first visited the island back in February of 2010, I was very interested in the stumps of Christmas trees that I could see sticking out of the sand dunes. After a little research, I thought it was the coolest way to recycle your tree. All the images in this post were snapped last year when I dropped my tree off.