You can find information below on recycling real and artificial trees, where our recycling points are, and how to arrange collections. .
You can recycle real or dispose of artificial Christmas trees at our Household Waste Recycling Sites.
If you're signed up to our garden waste service, you can chop up your tree and put it inside your brown bin. We will not collect waste left outside the bin.
Make sure the trunk is in small pieces no more than 10cm wide or long.
Do not leave trees on the pavement, road or beside a communal bin. This is fly-tipping and you could be fined.
If you have a real tree, you can leave it at any of our 23 Christmas tree recycling points across the city.
Before leaving your tree, remove it from its pot and make sure you've taken off all decorations.
Every real tree is turned into soil improver or compost. You can buy this soil improver from our recycling centres.
Our Christmas tree recycling points will be open from Monday 30 December 2024 until Friday 31 January 2025.
Find your nearest Christmas tree recycling point
Christmas can be a challenging time for those suffering bereavement and you can make a real difference to them by supporting AtaLoss, the UK’s bereavement signposting and information service. They offer comprehensive, online signposting to over 2000 vetted services via their website and through the award-winning The Bereavement Journey® a UK wide programme of expert led community support.
You can support them by having your real Christmas tree, (with the decorations removed), collected from outside your door.
AtaLoss are co-ordinating the Christmas tree collections through Just Helping.
They will collect trees on:
They will recycle every tree into wood chippings.
You can register for a tree collection on the Just Helping website. Registrations are open now and will close on Wednesday 8 January at 6pm.
If you use a company or individual to recycle or dispose of your Christmas tree, we recommend that you check they hold a waste carrier licence from the Environment Agency. If you don’t, as the waste owner, you may be investigated and fined or have court action taken against you.
We recommend that you take a photo or a copy of the waste carrier licence as proof that you have verified the company or individual.
If there are any issues with a site, please let us know using our report a problem and request a clean-up online form.