What do you do with your christmas trees? Do you recycle them?  

well in this day and age I agree totally,

but with a slight twist we haven't had a real tree in 10 years don't see the point of a real tree,

we have a 7 ft fake one and it looks a lot better than any real tree I have seen or have had.

It also means that every year we use the same one so no new tree's are cut down or transported to ours saving energy etc etc

I personally think people should use a good quality fake tree as they really are awesome and a lot less messy

cheers ben

the city where i live collects them on your regular garbage day (but does have a day set for it), chops them up and then re-sells them to the city dwellers as mulch!

I use plastic Christmas tree. But it somehow . . . kills the spirit of Christmas. It solves lots of problems at the same way, but it's different to have a real one. I'm using plastic from about 5 years ago, maybe more. One and the same tree every year.
If there's recycling option, it is the best way. That's my opinion.
You can use the plastic tree, but recycling the real one is better idea. This can help you have a good and alive Christmas and help the industry a little bit.

I don't usually have a Christmas tree, my father and I have one that which is made of tree, painted and about 12 cm tall :-) It stands on the middle of the table.
We used to burn the Christmas tree when we had one. I suppose I would have taken the branches to the horses, some of them like eating spruce needles, and burnt the rest for Christmas next year :-) If you don't know what to do with your Christmas tree here, you put it out around 10. january and the recycling picks it up. I think they are used for paper.

I have not had a real tree since 2000. I am not one that likes to have a tree cut just for decoration. I don't even like picking flowers. I haven't had a tree in quite a few years now.. but this year we did put up our artificial tree.. it's still up. We took the decorations off it, but have not taken it down yet.

I think it is a good idea to use a dead Christmas tree somehow, rather than just throw it away... to me, it is like it died for nothing. I like the idea of mulching them, or putting them in lakes for the fish to feed on and hide in.

Its not only a good idea, its actually become law in many places. For the most part, at least where I have lived, the city comes by shortly after the holidays and does a general sweep picking up discarded Christmas trees. They are taken to the city waste disposal centers and recycled. Personally, In my family we don't buy a Christmas tree anymore though, because we have purchased an imatation tree. To me its just as easy as buying a real one, you have far less problems with clean up because the pine needles dont dry out or fall off the tree, and you save a real tree from a slow death every year.

Hello blue65packer? Good day to you. Well, after christmas and the tree kings celebration we removed all the decoration. We put our christmas tree in the back space in the house because we recycle it and use again every chrhstmas.

Since i use and artificial Christmas tree here's what i do. i get it from my garage and also the decorations. then i unpack it and put all the decorations on it in like 30 minutes. then when it's time to put it up all i do is take all the decorations off and put them in a bag, then i take the artificial Christmas tree and unassemble it and put it in a box. Done ! all i do now is put it in the garage and wait until next year, what's Christmas without a tree and presents under it, lol. Goodbye !

Hello Blue65packer,
I don't know if you guys buy the life christmas tree for christmas, but in our country, we celebrate our lunar new year, but we celebrate Christmas too! . What we will do is that we will buy a artifical christmas tree, and we use the same one for every christmas!. After 3-4 years, we change a new articifical one.

Austin collects the trees and turns them to mulch and puts them in the "dillo dirt" that the city produces.