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Macon Telegraph | 01/05/2006 | When it comes to tree recycling, sometimes less is more

Some folks apparently don't understand the concept of recycling.

Otherwise, Laura Jackson and other Macon Public Works employees wouldn't spend a chunk of their post-Christmas work days wrestling with Christmas trees.

Jackson was at Central City Park on Wednesday morning stripping strings of lights from trees that had been discarded - still partially decorated.

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Those wanting to discard an old artificial tree should simply put it in the garbage. They aren't recycled, White said.

I would ask, "what are these people thinking?" But I know that they just aren't. I'm not sure they're capable of it, and I'm sure they don't want to. Physical laziness is bad enough, but when you're too lazy to even think about what you're doing...

...that's sad.