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Many local organizations are offering to pick up and recycle Christmas trees.
It may be time to take down the tinsel, ut some officials in Maryland's Prince George's County say the second biggest holiday for Christmas trees is still on the horizon.
Beginning Tuesday, residents can place their trees, completely undecorated and unbagged at curbside and they will be collected on residents' regularly scheduled collection day, which is a yard waste day.
Instead of merely throwing the trees away, however, workers scoop up used Christmas trees, take them to the county's composting facility, and turn them into mulch. The county then turns around and distributes the mulch to residents for Earth Day on April 20.
"We're giving our trees back to our residents, but we're also taking that natural product and giving it another natural use," says Denice Curry is an environmental planner with Department of Environmental Resources in Prince George's County.
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