ECONOTES : A Gift for the Planet

It’s the day after Christmas

And there in your sight

A once-pretty Christmas tree

Is now a big blight.

The ribbons and bows

Are strewn on the floor.

If you didn’t know better

You’d think there’d been war.

The needles have fallen

All over your rug

Onto boxes and gift wrap

You say with a shrug:

“I’ll pile all this trash

Into one great big lump

The truck will come by

And it’s off to the dump.”

But what do you think

Should suddenly appear?

Why, a story on recycling

Your holiday ware. E5 Econotes is an occasional update on issues involving the environment and ecology.