GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Christmas was nearly a month ago, but some people still have up most of their festive decorations. If you want to take care of the one big ticket item, the Christmas tree, you can drop it off at the Mesa County Composting Facility free of charge.
But what do they do with the trees once you drop them off?
Shay Starr, the Mesa County compost site manager, told Western Slope Now they've received hundreds of trees at the compost. Once people drop them off that's when the fun starts.
Old Christmas trees and other organic materials dropped off at the compost are ground up. "[Then] Water is added and it goes through a process where microbes break the organic material down into a product that can amend the solid here in the valley," Starr told Western Slope Now.
That product is then screened down to different sizes of compost, which you can buy when springtime comes around to help your flowers bloom.
For more information on what you can drop off at the Mesa County Compost along with the pricing of compost and mulch click here.