What happens to your trees collected in Le Havre and Rouen after Christmas?
By Murielle Bouchard
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The end of year celebrations are over, many people will bring their Christmas tree at one of the collection points set up by the municipalities of Seine-Maritime. But what then becomes of our trees? This is the not so stupid question of the day, here are some answers.
Goats love our trees!
The Métropole de Rouen responds by means of a press release. If you deposit your trees in the recycling centers of Boos, Cléon, Déville-Lès-Rouen, Duclair, Le Trait and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, they will then be “given to goat farms and farms in the territory to feed their animals “.
Goats love these conifers called like treats; they eat the needles and bark the tree.
As for the trunk and the main branches, they will be “crushed and used as mulch”. »
In the other recycling centers, your tree will be valued in compost. This will also be the case for those collected door to door during the week of January 9 during the collection of plant waste or those that you could bring to the collection points which will be set up from January 2.
Compost or mulch
In Le Havre, voluntary drop-off points are set up from December 26 for Christmas trees. Nearly 7,000 were collected last year. Again, two possibilities. The trees that are brought to one of the two recycling centers are transformed ” in compost, a natural fertilizer that saves fertilizer, soil and water. » Those deposited at the 39 voluntary drop-off points are crushed and reused in the form of mulching in beds in public gardens from the city.
In Rouen as in Le Havre, to facilitate these steps to promote our trees, it is of course asked to bring them without decorations!
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