South West England: Where and How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree After the Holidays January 2022
South West England councils and boroughs
Most areas have either :
- Kerbside collection (in some cases, cut the tree and put in the green waste bin - Some allow the whole Christmas tree to be placed by
the kerb), or
- Drop-off locations or
- Both
In ALL cases, remove all ornaments, tinsel, decorations, lights, stands, pots, planters, netting, etc.
Some household waste and recycling collections have been slightly delayed as a result of the national shortage of HGV drivers, which is affecting
haulage sectors throughout the UK. Most residents will not see any change from their normal waste collections dates as over 98% of all collections
are unaffected, but...
Always follow the link (click on the council or borough name) to get the most current information. There are often last
minute changes; do NOT assume nothing has changed since we last revised this page!.
Avon
Bristol
- St Peter's Hospice - kerbside
collection,
How it works: Check if your postcode is covered.
Book your collection, and make a donation of your choice - they suggest £10 or £20, but it's up to you.
Leave your tree outside your home
by midnight on Friday 7 January 2022 and their volunteers will collect it.
Collection postcodes: BS4, BS5, BS7, BS9, BS15, BS16, BS20, BS21
with a limited collection in BS41 and BS48. If your postcode is not in this list then I'm afraid we can't collect it this year.
If you'd like
to help, email community@stpetershospice.org.
Dorset
- Dorset - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
Dorset Council does not collect
whole Christmas trees of any kind with rubbish or recycling at the kerbside but they DO take it inside the green waste bin. Just cut it up to
fit inside your garden waste bin.
Drop-off at a household recycling centre
Kerbside collection by a charity: For a small
donation, they will collect your tyree, but you must register in advance!
Weldmar Hospice - covers all Dorset Council areas apart from Wareham, Swanage and East Dorset
Lewis-Manning Hospice - covers the Wareham, Portland, Swanage and East
Dorset area
Diverse Abilities - covers the East Dorset area
Gloucestershire
Artificial Christmas trees - If it's worn out and no longer needed you can take it to
Hempsted Recycling Centre, or arrange a chargeable bulky item collection
Real Christmas trees:
-
Gloucestershire - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
Kerbside collection - If you subscribe to the garden
waste service, you can chop up your real Christmas tree and put in your green garden waste bin (make sure all decorations are removed and the
lid of your bin is closed). Collections are suspended from Monday after Christmas in December and resume from the second Monday in January.
If you are not a member of the garden waste service please see details below on how you can dispose of your real Christmas tree
- Cheltenham Borough - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
Kerbside collection - If you are a garden waste customer leave your tree
out with your garden waste bin on your first collection after 16 January 2022 and it will be collected. *Remember there are no garden waste
collections between 18 December 2021 and 16 January 2022. Collections will restart in mid-January (17 January 2022)
If you are not a garden
waste customer, Ubico Ltd will collect Christmas trees from 16 January 2022 from the kerbside.
Christmas tree drop off -
Swindon Road recycling centre -
anytime during opening hours
From 3 to 17 January 2022, locations around Cheltenham where trees will be collected and recycled:
Cheltenham
Racecourse - New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LT
Cheltenham Football Club - Whaddon Road, Cheltenham, GL52 5NA
Old Patesians RFC - Everest
Road, Cheltenham, GL53 9LG
Cheltenham B&Q - Golden valley retail park, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, GL51 6TA
Please note: Christmas tree
drop off points will have a designated area marked off with cones and a sign. Please only use these areas to deposit your Christmas trees.
Christmas trees should be free of lights, decorations, pots or stands and trees up to five feet or one and a half metres tall can be left out
whole. Trees larger than this need to be cut down before being put out for collection.
Other items:
Christmas lights
Please put Christmas lights in a tied carrier bag and then place them in one of your recycling boxes for collection.
You can also take Christmas lights to the
Swindon Road recycling centre.
Christmas cards
Provided they do not contain foil or glitter decoration, these can be put into your
blue cardboard bag, recycled at
the cardboard banks at bring sites around the town or taken to the
Swindon Road recycling centre.
Remember you can remove the foil and glitter section of the Christmas card and recycle the rest of the card.
Wrapping paper
Wrapping paper which does not contain foil can be put into your
kerbside recycling boxes for
recycling. However wrapping paper made from foil cannot be placed in to the kerbside recycling box as unfortunately they cannot be recycled.
- Longfield Charity - kerbside collection
Longfield
Community Hospice will collect and recycle your real tree for a donation to their hospice care, from properties with the following postcodes
from GL2 (2,3,4) GL3 (4) GL4 (0,3,4,5,8).
- Robinswood Hill -
From Tuesday 4 January until Tuesday 11 January 2022 between 8.30am to 4pm, you can take your real tree (all
decorations must be removed) to
Robinswood Hill car park, GL4 6SX
where you'll be able to leave it in an allocated location (do not
leave it in any other place as this will be classed as fly-tipping).
- Eastern Avenue Depot -
From Tuesday 4 January until Tuesday 11 January 2022 between 9:00am to 3:30pm (excluding weekends), you
can take your real tree (all decorations must be removed) to the Depot at Eastern Avenue, GL4 6PG where you'll be able to leave it in an
allocated location at the front of the site. Any trees that are left at either location will be chipped, composted and used in parks and open
spaces.
- South Gloucestershire - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
In all cases, Please remember to remove all decorations, pots and stands before recycling your Christmas tree.
Kerbside collection - If you have subscribed to the garden waste service you can put your real Christmas tree in your green bin for kerbside collection on your collection day.
Please cut the tree into manageable pieces and ensure and make sure the tree is not wedged into the bin.
You can also buy a single use garden waste sack for £2 from your nearest South Gloucestershire library or alternatively from Country Stores, 48 High Street,
Marshfield SN14 8LP. Please attach the sack to the tree and leave out for collection on your normal collection day (you don't need to worry about cutting the
tree to fit it in the sack, we are doing special one off collections after Christmas taking any trees as long as they have a South Gloucestershire Council
garden waste sack attached to them).
Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice in Cheltenham will, for a donation of your choosing, collect your Christmas tree from outside your
address and take it away to be turned into woodchip mulch
Register your Christmas tree
by Saturday 9 January 2022 for collection from selected GL postcodes between Wednesday 12 January and Saturday 15 January 2022.
Drop-off
- You can also recycle your tree at one of South Gloucestershire's four Sort It centres. Please visit www.southglos.gov.uk/sortit to
find your nearest recycling centre.To check your collection day please visit www.southglos.gov.uk/localconnection Recycled trees will be processed with the rest of South Gloucestershire's garden waste and turned into fertiliser and mulch.
Somerset
- Bath - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
kerbside collection -
From January 9 to 31 the council
will collect your real Christmas tree for composting, as part of their garden waste collection service. Put it at the front edge of your
property on your garden waste collection day so that the crews can easily see it. You will have to check the council website to see what week
garden waste is collected. If your tree is more than 1.2 meters tall it needs to be cut in half.
Kerbside charity collection - For a small
donation, Dorothy House Hospice Care will collect from nine postcode areas including
new areas in Bath and Melksham. Just register in advance on the website, enter your
postcode and follow the instructions.
Drop-off at a recycling centre:
Bath; Midland Road, BA1 3AT
Keynsham; Pixash Lane, BS31
1TP
Midsomer Norton; Old Welton, Wheelers Hill, BA3 2AA
Wiltshire
- Wiltshire - kerbside collection, or drop-off at a recycling centre
Kerbside collection - Residents who pay to have their garden waste collected at the kerbside will have their Christmas trees collected. One
Christmas tree will be collected per property.
Drop-off - Residents who don't sign up for the chargeable garden waste service can take their
Christmas trees to any of the council's household recycling centres for
free.
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