ANTIGO - An optimist club in Antigo takes care of Christmas trees with fire. For them, it's a safe, controlled way to dispose the trees.
The Antigo Optimist Club has been burning Christmas trees for close to 50 years. Club President Tonya McKenna Trabant says some people tend to drop off Christmas trees, but the city of Antigo collects most of the trees and drops them off near the Antigo High School.
"Then they gather them up and haul them over here. Instead of shipping them and dropping them off somewhere or having to dispose of them in a landfill, then they gather and we talk about a date with them. Then we set them on fire," said McKenna Trabant.
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