Now that you've taken that yard waste out of your house

Sustainability blogger Green LA Girl provides a roundup of area Christmas Tree disposal prospects, calling it treecycling. Although there's an inherent foolishness in partaking in the tradition of taking a 5-15 year old tree and chopping it down and trucking it to your neighborhood so it can be festooned with electric lights and other nostalgic gewgaw for a few weeks-- it's a trend that will likely endure regardless. For those who don't have the wherewithal to chop it into recycling bin-sized pieces, Green LA Girl gives a good list of services including people who'll do it for you and vacuum afterwards.

Those who bought a live tree (watch for updates) will soon be moving it outside to be subject to Western pine beetle and planting it in the ground or repotting it. Other choices besides the obvious reusable artificial off-the-shelf product include these.