The property owner in, for example, an apartment house is responsible for disposing of rough waste, which the Christmas tree is counted as. And in some cases, municipalities also set up gathering places for Christmas trees. The easiest way is to contact the municipality or the property owner to get answers about how the Christmas tree is thrown in the most smooth way.

Homeowners have options

If you are a homeowner with a plot, it is an option to let the Christmas tree ruined outdoors. If you want to fire up the Christmas tree in the house, it is also good but then 90 times more dust is released into the atmosphere compared to if it is burned in a plant. A sensible solution is just to leave the Christmas tree at the recycling center. There it becomes a chip that in turn becomes electricity and heat in cogeneration plants.

The mileage matters

Anyone who has a long drive with the car and just wants to throw a fir may think about it. A Christmas tree contains energy equivalent to just over two liters of gasoline, so anyone who has several miles to drive to the recycling center is kinder to the environment if the fire is taken care of on the home front.

Alternative method

But the options don't end there. After all, at the recycling center, the Christmas tree can end up as nothing but wood chips, as in the municipality of Hudiksvall where an ongoing project involves Christmas trees being lowered into the water to help the fauna.

Listen to Mats Strandell at Hudiksvall municipality's waste unit to tell us how Christmas trees can help fish in the clip above.