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Published on January 8th, 2008

Seeing the Christmas Trees Off to be Recycled

Christmas Trees Bing Recycled

Every morning I walk the dogs in a different park. This morning I was out walking at Los Olivos Park in Phoenix, Arizona and I saw the big pile of Christmas trees about to be recycled. A City of Phoenix truck was picking them up and carting them away.

This small incident made me proud to be part of Earth 911.

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