27-12-2017 16:00 via theverge.com

What to do with that leftover Christmas tree? Give it to the fish

Christmas is over — so now what do you do with that massive Fraser fir that’s been decorating your living room? Well, you could mulch it, or just toss it in a lake. Seriously.
Around the US, many park districts and wildlife areas collect used or unsold Christmas trees to recycle as fish habitats. It works this way: at the end of the holidays, real Christmas trees, stripped of all their ornaments, are bundled up together and thrown in lakes to create reefs. These reefs give young fish
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