Christmas trees replanted

Beginning of January the streets are full of the sad sight of discarded Christmas trees, which took a couple of years to grow, only to end up decorating a house  for two weeks, and then to be thrown out. 

As an oprimistic contrast, I just found out that it is possible for those who HAVE to have a tree, that they can rent a tree and have it re-planted:

http://www.recyclenow.com/news/couple_launch.html