Christmas Tree Recycling Southwark Council

[LFCSE22]

Does anyone know the deal with Christmas tree recycling this year? Will Southwark still collect for free / when will that happen. Thanks so much for reading / helping. Happy new year!

[Castleton]

If you have a brown garden waste bin, put it in there?

[DuncanW]

From LB Southwark's website

Christmas tree recycling

Please recycle your real Christmas tree once you're finished with it. Simply remove all decorations including any pot or stand and do one of the following:

if you have a food and garden waste collection, real Christmas trees can be collected as part of your garden waste subscription collection - simply leave it by your bin on collection day, please note that trees over 6 foot long should be cut in half

if you do not receive a food or garden waste collection, email environment@southwark.gov.uk stating your name and full address to request a real Christmas collection - then leave your Christmas tree for collection outside your property at ground floor level in a place that does not cause an obstruction to pedestrians or vehicles, please note that trees over 6 foot long should be cut in half

if you live on an estate or in a block of flats, leave your real Christmas tree by the bin areas or bulky waste collection areas, please make sure your tree is easily accessible and not behind a locked gate or in a bin store

alternatively book a permit and bring you real Christmas trees and plastic Christmas trees to the Reuse and Recycling centre on Devon Street (off old Kent Road)

There is no charge for disposal of Christmas trees by any of the above methods.

[Nigello]

Please don't leave splayed out on the pavement, nor prop up with the vain wish it will stay like that: people who are blind/poor sighted, have children/prams, etc. etc. can find it hard to navigate our footpaths at the best of time. Best practice is to strip the branches off and put in the brown bin (ask a neighbour if you have not got one), remove the wooden base.

[staplemeg]

Does anyone know if it?s just this week they?ll be collecting trees?

[ed26]

I put mine outside on the 6th last year and it was there for almost 2 weeks before it was collected, so I would think you have a few weeks' window.

[Jenijenjen]

Collection isn?t restricted to normal collection days either. The guys who drive around in the truck with a cage are on the look out for them and will pick them up. So if you?re on their regular route the tree will go sooner.

[legalalien]

I put mine out yesterday for our regular Monday collection but it wasn't picked up - fingers crossed for some guys with a truck/cage!

[Rockets]

Same today with the Tuesday collections - everyone has put them by their brown bins but none have been collected.

[malumbu]

Our Lidl one is going back in the garden, so have no personal interest in recylcing.

Think that Lewisham are collecting them for example in parks, as yesterday I cycled past Mayow park and there were piles of them just inside the gates. I was a bit worried when I saw a few people carrying them, it wasn't quite like the army on maneuvers but did seem like an extreme bit of camouflage.

Here's one from another time

https://www.listal.com/viewimage/8418061

[ED Light]

Tree pick up today

[ed_pete]

https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,2254041

Does he just put them outside his own house and charge you a fiver ?