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Recycling your fir tree is the key to a sustainable Christmas

A farm worker carries a bagged Christmas tree to a customer at Wicklow Way Christmas tree farm in Roundwood, Ireland December 9, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne - RC183E3950D0

A man carries a bagged Christmas tree on a farm. Image: REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Bert Cregg
Professor of Horticulture and Forestry, , Michigan State University
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Cutting the 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest for delivery by truck to the National Mall in Washington, D.C
Cutting the 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest for delivery by truck to the National Mall in Washington, D.C Image: USFS – Pacific Northwest
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