horses collect Christmas trees to recycle them

Horse hooves echo in the streets of the commune of Petite-Forêt (North). They pass by residents’ houses to pick up Christmas trees from the sidewalks. More than a hundred trees are recycled: they are crushed and transformed into mulch, which prevents weeds from growing. “Saving time for cleaning, but also saving water”specifies Robert Vanoverschelde, environment assistant at Petite-Forêt town hall.

Nothing is lost in conifers

In Feignies (North), 2,000 Christmas trees are eaten by Camélerie camels. “It will play a natural deworming role. Deworming, basically, is cleaning them. If we remove all the worms they have inside, (…) everything they eat benefits them”, explains Julien Job, responsible for breeding. Many residents therefore spontaneously deposit their conifers to feed these animals.