In the Netherlands, an average of 2.5 million Christmas trees are thrown away every year. They are increasingly given a second life. In the municipality of Utrecht, the collected trees are processed into compost, in Aagtekerke in Zeeland alpacas happy of their new snack. In Hei- and Boeicop it will also smell like Christmas trees in the coming months, Arjen thinks. “But I’m willing to do that. The cows are comfortable again, aren’t they.”
Farmer Arjen uses thousands of discarded Christmas trees as mattresses for his cows: ‘It’s wonderfully soft’
