In 2024, New York turned 250 discarded Christmas trees into nearly 600 feet of breakwaters; by fall, the trees were trapping sediment around a restored salt marsh
- What looked like holiday waste ended up helping rebuild a fragile salt marsh at Jamaica Bay, where the trees were turned into nearly 600 feet of natural breakwaters.
- By autumn, the organisation said the barriers had begun trapping enough sediment to become partially bur
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- What looked like holiday waste ended up helping rebuild a fragile salt marsh at Jamaica Bay, where the trees were turned into nearly 600 feet of natural breakwaters.
- By autumn, the organisation said the barriers had begun trapping enough sediment to become partially bur
Sources: Times of India