I’ve heard that a Christmas tree takes up as much space as a washing machine in the waste stream. I’m proud to report that NeighborHuddle and treecycle.org helped recycle over 200 washing machines, I mean Christmas trees, from the alleys of Chicago this year. On a beautiful 60 degree Sunday in January, Chris Hohenstein with the Chicago Conservation Core and I navigated a donated U-Haul truck through the residential alleys of the Lincoln Park and Lakeview neighborhoods. The good news was that we collected as many trees as we did. The bad news is that we could have worked around the clock and never run out of trees.
I want to thank Paul Millar of treecycle.org for setting up the truck donations and providing the motivation to do this. I also want to thank Chris for is exceptional maneuvering of the truck through the alleys.
Happy New Year!
