After the holiday, Nazy and I carted the (gargantuan) Martin Family Christmas Tree downstairs. Fully, well, partially, aware of the Swiss recycling regulations, we knew that they would collect discarded Christmas Trees during the two weeks after New Year. Later, we discovered that they collect trees that are no more than 1.5 meters tall. Our tree, large enough when standing to require an aircraft warning light, remained uncollected.
We moved to plan B. In the cover of night, I took my clippers and cut off many branches from the tree. I placed, well I stuffed, the debris into the “Green Garbage” can. Later, I learned that contrary to common sense, evergreen debris does not meet the recycling definition of Green Garbage.
Creatively, I gathered a collection of old roses and tulips and stuffed them into the garbage can on top of (and hopefully obscuring) the evergreen. This worked – in the sense that they actually emptied the can. (If they can figure out who did this, we may receive an official fine.)
The tree itself – or at least the trunk of the tree - remained as an eyesore in front of the apartment building. Slinking out at midnight (once again) I sawed the trunk into 6 pieces and left them next to the Green Garbage can. Amazingly, a few days later these tree pieces disappeared.
You may ask why we didn’t burn the tree in the fireplace. It’s simple: evergreen resin is polluting and burning it in a fireplace is illegal.
The photo of Nazy is provided as additional compensation for an earlier posting.
We moved to plan B. In the cover of night, I took my clippers and cut off many branches from the tree. I placed, well I stuffed, the debris into the “Green Garbage” can. Later, I learned that contrary to common sense, evergreen debris does not meet the recycling definition of Green Garbage.
Creatively, I gathered a collection of old roses and tulips and stuffed them into the garbage can on top of (and hopefully obscuring) the evergreen. This worked – in the sense that they actually emptied the can. (If they can figure out who did this, we may receive an official fine.)
The tree itself – or at least the trunk of the tree - remained as an eyesore in front of the apartment building. Slinking out at midnight (once again) I sawed the trunk into 6 pieces and left them next to the Green Garbage can. Amazingly, a few days later these tree pieces disappeared.
You may ask why we didn’t burn the tree in the fireplace. It’s simple: evergreen resin is polluting and burning it in a fireplace is illegal.
The photo of Nazy is provided as additional compensation for an earlier posting.
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