Here are seven practical ways to reuse your Christmas tree after the holidays from the experts. "Pine wood and needles are ideal materials for mulch, offering excellent moisture retention and weed suppression," says Bonnett. Transform your Christmas tree into organic mulch that enriches your garden soil and helps plants stay hydrated.

Once the holidays are over, most people are left wondering what to do with their Christmas tree. Instead of dragging it to the curb, you can turn it into free mulch for your garden and give your plants a little extra love. Recycling your tree this way is a ...

Each holiday season the United States produces millions of tons of food and shopping waste. Attending festive gatherings and exchanging gifts between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, American households generate 25% more waste than at any other time of year.

NEW YORK (AP) – It’s one of America’s great recycling success stories: Every year, hundreds of thousands of discarded Christmas trees are collected and reused. Many are picked up curbside by local garbage collection services and turned into mulch.

Christmas is over and New Year’s Eve is a week away, but Mulchfest — New York City’s annual “tree-cycling” program — has arrived to fill the festive gap.

For many Oklahomans, it’s time to put away your lights, your stockings and perhaps most dauntingly, your Christmas tree. If you’ve been rockin’ around a live Christmas tree, it could have another life as mulch for somebody’s garden.