After all the presents have been unwrapped, and those Yuletide carols have all been sung, millions of folks around the world suddenly find themselves with a withering young pine tree in their living-room whose time has come. Sadly, most of these old Christmas trees, so beloved and cherished just a few weeks earlier, end up unceremoniously cast to the curb to be made into mulch. But for some of the most famous Christmas trees, like the ones adorned each year in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, the passing year brings with it a new life — providing something a bit more lasting than holiday cheer…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Becomes of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree? (Video)