Christmas tree recycling

2025 plans TBC

Have a look at the council’s Christmas service information here.

Christmas tree collection

Real Christmas trees placed at the boundary of your property will be collected on Saturday 11 or Saturday 18 January 2025. Please ensure your real Christmas tree has all decorations and tree lights removed, is cut in half and put at the boundary of your property by 6am.

Have a look at the council’s Christmas service information here.

Christmas tree collection

If you’ve signed up to the garden waste service, your tree will be collected from Monday 5 January 2025 onwards.

You’ll need to cut your tree in half and place it next to your garden waste bin on collection day.

Christmas tree drop off

If you don’t have a garden waste subscription, you can take your tree to either one of two tips in the borough:

Thames Road in Crayford and Maidstone Road in Foots Cray. The council is operating a traffic control system based on odd and even number plates at both sites. Make sure you read the rules for visiting here before going.

For full Christmas service information, check the council website here

2025 plans TBC

Double check the Christmas tree recycling details on the Brent website here.

Christmas tree collection

Residents who are members of the green garden waste wheelie bin collection service can use this service to recycle their real Christmas trees. Trees must be put in the bins for recycling and broken down if necessary.

Christmas tree drop off

Bromley provides a free Christmas tree recycling service drop off for all residents at temporary sites around the borough.

Site locations and opening times

Saturday 11 January 2025: 11:00am to 16:00

–  Bromley: Norman Park, Hook Farm Road (off Bromley Common)

–  Green Street Green: Salt Depot, Shire Lane Spur (off Sevenoaks Road)

–  St Paul’s Cray: Cotmandene, Crescent car park

Sunday 12 January 2024: 8:00am to 12 noon

–  Biggin Hill: Charles Darwin School, Jail Lane

–  Beckenham: Unicorn Primary School car park, Creswell Drive (off South Eden Park Road)

Christmas trees can also be recycled at Waldo Road and Churchfields Road reuse and recycling centres (closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day) – please remember to bring proof of address.

Get all the details here.

Christmas tree collection

If you’ve signed up to the garden waste service, your tree will be collected on your usual bin day. You’ll need to cut your tree up so that it can fit into your garden waste bin or bags.

Christmas tree drop off

If you don’t have a garden waste collection, you can take your tree to the temporary Christmas tree recycling points in the borough that will be open Thursday 2 January – Sunday 12 January 2025.

Find your nearest Christmas tree recycling point

Get all the details here.

Christmas tree collection

The council can collect your tree from your home for free! Put your tree out by Monday 6th January and it will be collected as soon as possible.

If you have a garden waste collection you can also cut it up and recycle it as part of your usual service.

Christmas tree drop off

You can drop off your tree at the Household Reuse and Recycling Centres.

Get all the details here.

2025 plans TBC.

Check the council website for more details.

Christmas tree collection
Between Monday 6 January and Friday 24 January 2025, those who use the black and blue wheeled bins can leave their real trees on the front edge of their property for collection.

Trees will be collected on the same day as your revised rubbish collection (black bin) each alternate week. Tree trunks must not exceed 20cm in diameter, or be more than six feet tall (taller trees can be cut in two).

Christmas tree drop off

If you live in a flat or use a communal bin service you will have to take your real tree to one of the councils parks or open spaces. This runs until Friday 24 January 2025.

• Acton Park
• Berkeley Fields (Berkeley Avenue)
• Churchfields Hanwell (car park)
• Cleveland Park
• Ealing Central Sports Ground (Horsenden Lane South)
• Ealing Common (Junction of Grange Road and The Common)
• Elthorne Park (Boston Road)
• Islip Manor Park (Eastcote Lane car park)
• North Acton Playing fields
• Perivale Park (Cowgate Road)
• Pitshanger Park
• Ravenor Park (Oldfield Lane South and Ruislip Road)
• Rectory Park (Perkfield Drive)
• Southall Park (Green Drive)
• Southfields Recreation Ground (Southfield Road)
• Spikes Bridge Park (West Avenue)
• Springfield Gardens (Rosemont Road)
• Walpole Park (Lammas Park Gardens)

Or you can take your real christmas tree to Greenford reuse and recycling centre. The centre will be closed on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, but will otherwise remain open during the Christmas and New Year period. Please remember to book your visit before attending.

For full Christmas tree recycling details, have a look on the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

If you have subscribed to the garden waste collection service, you can place your real Christmas tree out for collection on your scheduled garden waste collection day. You must remove all decorations, pots and turf from your tree as these cannot be recycled. If your tree is taller than 6ft, please cut it into smaller pieces (otherwise it cannot be collected) or take it to one of the parks listed below.

This year North London Hospice are introducing a free Christmas tree recycling service to selected postcodes in Enfield. For more information visit North London Hospice.

Christmas tree drop off

Until 12 January 2025, trees can be taken to:

• Firs Farm Park, Firs Lane
• Albany Park
• Bury Lodge Gardens
• Bush Hill Park
• Durants Park
• Grovelands Park
• Jubilee Park
• Tottenhall Sports Ground
• Town Park
• Trent Park

Please leave trees inside the park gates for collection.

Christmas trees can also be taken to Barrowell Green Recycling Centre and the Edmonton Eco Park. Booking may be required – please check online.

For all the Christmas service information, check here.

The council can collect your tree as part of your weekly collection! Just place the tree outside the front your home before 6am – not in your green bin.

If you live in a block or estate with communal bins, leave it by the bin store – not in the bins!

For full details, check here.

Christmas tree collection

If you are subscribed to the garden waste service, the collection team will collect your Christmas tree on your regular garden waste collection day. After removing decorations, place your tree at the front of your property by 6am

If you live in a block with garden waste collections, place your tree next to the garden waste bin making sure you do not block access to the bins

You can also arrange a collection through the bulky waste service from 27 December.

Christmas tree drop off

Double check details and opening times on the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

If you normally get an on-street rubbish collection, simply leave your tree where you’d leave your rubbish.

Please make sure your tree is clearly visible and not obstructing the pavement

Please put your tree out for collection before 7am on your regular collection day

Drop-off points:

You can also take your tree to one of the following drop-off points:

• Bishops Park
• Cathnor Park
• Fulham Palace Road Cemetery
• Loris Road Community Gardens
• New Kings Road
• Normand Park
• Ravenscourt Park
• South Park
• Wormholt Park
• Wormwood Scrubs car park

For full Christmas service information, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection
Street collections

We can collect your tree for free. Leave the tree in a visible and accessible location in your front garden on collection day, ideally next to your bin(s). Our food/garden waste collection crews will pick it up.

Trees over 3 feet long (1 metre) should be cut in half otherwise we cannot collect them, as they will damage the vehicles.

Communal bins

Leave your tree next to your communal waste container. You can do this until the end of January.

Trees over 3 feet long (1 metre) should be cut in half.

If you live in a block with a communal chute, please do not put your Christmas tree down the chute.

Christmas tree drop off 
You can also drop-off your Christmas trees at the following parks from 26 December 2024 – 12 January 2025.

• Bruce Castle Park
• Downhills Park
• Finsbury Park
• OR Tambo Recreation Ground
• Priory Park

Christmas trees can also be taken to Haringey’s Reuse and Recycling Centre in Wood Green – Western Road, N22 6UG. Visits have to be booked in advance. You can do that here.

The Gardens community garden will have a Christmas tree recycling point where you can recycle your whole tree from Thursday 2 January to Friday 24 January 2025, 9am to 4pm.

For more Christmas service details, have a look at the council website here.

The council doesn’t collect trees or set up drop-off points. Instead, you can take your tree to the tip or book a bulky waste collection.

Check the tip’s page here

Book a bulky waste collection here

Christmas tree collection

Donate and recycle with Saint Francis Hospice. Call 01708 753319 or visit the Saint Francis Hospice website.

Christmas tree drop off

You can drop off your tree at Gerpins Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre. Check the site rules before visiting here.

For more Christmas service details, have a look at the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

If you’ve signed up to the garden waste service, your tree will be collected on your usual bin day in January.

If you live in a flat, collections are available between Monday 6 and Friday 17 January – email wastesupervisor@hillingdon.gov.uk to book. Trees should be placed next to your bin store or collection point for waste bins, ensuring access to the bins is not blocked. Please do not put trees inside the communal bins.

Christmas tree drop off

You can take your tree to one of the borough waste and recycling centres or arrange a bulky waste collection.

For full Christmas service information, have a look at the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

The council are collecting from Monday 6 January to Friday 17 January on the scheduled garden waste collection week for your road. This will same day, but the alternate week, as your usual scheduled black wheelie bin (rubbish) collection. You can use this table to find your Christmas tree collection day.

The council only collect Christmas trees from properties that have a black wheelie bin collection. If you live in a flat, please contact your managing agent or resident association. They need to arrange a single bulk collection of Christmas trees at their development or block of flats through us. They should email customerservice@hounslow.gov.uk.

Christmas tree drop off

From Friday 20 December 2024 to Friday 24 January 2025 you can drop your real Christmas tree off for free at a designated collection point.

The collection points are:

• Hanworth Air Park
• Hounslow Heath
• Redlees Park
• Bedfont Lakes
• Space Waye
• Turnham Green

For more detailed Christmas service information, have a look at the council website here.

2025 plans TBC

The Reuse and Recycling Centre at Hornsey Street accepts green waste and Christmas trees all year round.

Christmas tree collection

If you live in a house/flat in a house, the council will collect your Christmas treee on your rubbish and recycling collection day, between Thursday 2 January and Friday 17 January 2025.

If you live on an estate, in a mansion block or in flats, and use communal bins and mixed recycling banks, you can take your real tree to the Christmas tree recycling points listed below.

Alternatively, your housing provider may also have a separate collection in place. You can check with your caretaker or property manager and make sure to ask if the trees will be composted, and won’t be thrown away as rubbish.

Christmas tree drop off

There are many drop off points available to use between Thursday 2 January and Sunday 19 January 2025

The best way to recycle your real tree for free, is at one of our drop-off points. This helps keep our pavements and streets clear. You can use the drop off points below, between Thursday 2 January and Sunday 19 January 2025.

Get all the details here.

2025 plans TBC

Check the council website for full Christmas service details here.

Christmas tree collections

To get your real Christmas tree collected, leave it next to your bins on your collection day. The council can only collect a limited number each day so if your tree is not collected, please take it back in and leave it next to your bins again on your next collection day.

Estates

If you live on an estate, please leave your real Christmas tree by the bin areas or bulky waste collection areas.

Christmas tree drop off

You can also book a slot to take your tree to one of our recycling sites:

• Smugglers Way Recycling Centre
• Vale Street Reuse and Recycling Centre

Alternatively, you can bring your real Christmas trees to the collection point in Clapham Common, off Windmill Drive.

For full Christmas service details, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

If you have a garden waste subscription, you can recycle your tree as part of your usual collection. Just cut it into pieces no bigger than 10cm thick and 50cm long.

Christmas tree drop off

If you don’t have a garden-waste service, you can recycle your tree at the following drop-off points (2025 dates TBC)

• Hilly Fields
• Blythe Hill
• Deptford Park
• Telegraph Hill
• Talbot Place
• Mountsfield ParK
• Sydenham Wells Park
• Forster Memorial Park
• Northbrook Park
• Mayow Park
• Chinbrook Meadows
• Manor House Gardens

For full service information, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

Put your real Christmas tree out by Monday 6 January 2025 and it will be collected as soon as possible. Place it close to the front boundary of your property, visible to collection crews but not blocking the pavement.

Alternatively,if you subscribe to the garden waste collection service, you can also cut it up and put it in your garden waste bin.

If you live in a flat with shared bins, put your tree outside your bin store but don’t block access.

Christmas tree drop off

Book a visit to the Garth Road Household Reuse and Recycling Centre and place it in the garden waste container.

For more details, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

Arrange for a garden waste collection, and put the chopped up tree into a bag on your collection day. Book a collection here.

Christmas tree drop off

Make a booking at Jenkins Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre.

Christmas tree collection

The council can collect your tree from home for free! Simply put your tree out by 6am on Monday 6 January and it will be collected by 17 January.

Christmas tree drop off

Alternatively, you can take your Christmas tree and other items to Chigwell Road Reuse and Recycling Centre, just remember to check opening hours over the festive period on this page.

Get all the details here.

Christmas tree collection

Christmas tree collections will run from Monday 6 to Friday 17 January 2025, on the garden waste collection day for your street.

This service is free and you do not require a garden waste contract to have your tree collected and recycled.

Christmas tree drop off

If you live in a flat, you can take your Christmas tree to one of these drop off points between Friday 27 December 2024 and Friday 24 January 2025.

• Barn Elms Sports Centre
• Squire’s Garden Centre Car Park
• Old Deer Car Park
• Ham Street Car Park
• Nelson Road Car Park
• Hampton Library Car Park
• North Lane Car Park

Or you can take your tree to Townmead Road Re-use and Recycling Centre – remember you must book an appointment to visit.

For more Christmas service information, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

The council will collect and recycle your real Christmas tree for free. Trees should not be taller than 5ft – you should chop any taller trees into smaller pieces.

Put your tree with your garden waste containers on collection day or reques a free collection if you do not have a garden waste collection. If you’re in a flat, it outside your block at the kerbside (not in with your communal bins)

Christmas tree drop off

You can take it to the Reuse and Recycling Centre

For all the details, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

The council’s real Christmas tree collection service will operate from Monday 6 January to Friday 17 January. We aim to recycle as many trees as possible.

Put your tree out on your scheduled general and garden waste collection day during this 2 week period. Place your tree as close to the front boundary of your property, visible to the collection teams and not blocking the pavement.

If you live in a flat, place your tree outside the bin store but do not block access to it.

If you have a garden waste subscription, cut it up and place it in your garden waste recycling bin.

Christmas tree drop off

Take it to the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) to be composted. Don’t forget to book your visit to HRRC.

For full details, check the council website here.

You can recycle your tree as part of your food and garden waste collection (if this is part of your standard service). Simply leave out for collection on your usual bin day.

If you don’t have food and garden waste collections, please contact your property landlord or management company who can arrange collections from communal collection points.

For full Christmas service information, check the council website here.

Christmas tree collection

The council are offering a free collection service for real Christmas trees from Tuesday 2 January.

To have your real Christmas tree collected it must not be larger than 6 foot / 1.8 metres and the stem no bigger than 4 inches / 10 cm

For houses with two-wheeled bins

Please place the tree out the evening before your brown garden waste bin collection day and ensure the tree is within the boundary of your property and visible to the crew from the road.  To find out when the brown bin collection day is, use the ‘find out when your bin should be collected button above’.

Please do not place the real Christmas tree inside of the brown bin.

For communal properties with communal bins

Please book a real Christmas tree collection using your My Account. Your tree will be collected from the communal bin area.

For properties on a sack collection

If you are on a thrice weekly sack collection service please book a real Christmas tree collection using your My Account.

Christmas tree drop off

You can also take it to a recycling centre in Chingford or Walthamstow.

For more details, check the council website here.

Christmas tree recycling collections will start from Monday 6 January 2025 and will run throughout the month.

Christmas tree collection

Your tree will be collected on the same day as your rubbish and recycling, but by a different vehicle so this may not be at the same time as other collections.

Trees should be left out after 6.30pm on the day before the collection is due, and by 6.30am on the collection day.

Where to leave your tree

If you have a front garden – put your tree out for collection next to your rubbish and recycling bags, on your usual collection day – not on the street.

If you do not have a front garden – put your tree just outside your front door on the pavement taking care not to block where people walk.

If you live in a block of flats – leave your tree near to your rubbish or recycling bin store, making sure you do not block access to the bins.

Christmas tree drop off

To make it easier to dispose of your real Christmas tree as well as leaving it out for collection, you can take it to one of the following drop-off points from Thursday 26 December 2024 until Friday 31 January 2025:

• Acanthus Road, Battersea
• Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Car Park
• Battersea Park, Chelsea Gate Car Park
• Nuffield Health Car Park, Burr Road
• Tooting Common, Dr Johnson Car Park
• Tooting Leisure Centre Car Park

You can take your tree to Smugglers Way reuse and recycling centre. Remember you must book a slot to visit Smugglers Way.

For all the details, check the council website here.

Westminster has over 25 recycling points for real Christmas trees. You can take your tree to a drop-off point from the start of Thursday 26 December 2024 to the end of the day Sunday 19 January 2025. Opening hours are 8am to 8pm unless they are in parks, which close at 4.30pm.

Find your nearest Christmas tree recycling point