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Christmas Tree Recycling


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For those of you that didn't know already, Southwark Council will collect and recycle your Christmas Tree as part of the Garden Waste collection scheme. You can find your garden waste collection day here

[Waste Collection Day Lookup]


From their website..


Christmas trees

From January 6 to 27 2008, we will be providing a free Christmas tree recycling service. Households on our garden waste collection scheme can have their trees collected by putting them out on their garden waste collection day. Households who are not part of the garden waste scheme can take their trees to designated areas at: Manor Place recycling centre, Burgess Park, Belair Park, Southwark Park and Peckham Rye Park.

We will also offer an assisted collection service for elderly or disabled residents; just contact us on 020 7525 2000 from the beginning of January to arrange for collection.

All the trees we collect will be reprocessed to make mulch that will help bring shrub and flowerbeds back to life in the spring.

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  • 11 months later...

Dont forget to remove the decorations first!


I will be slinging my 18ft tree over my shoulder and heading down to Peckham Rye park recycling on Monday night safe in the knowledge that the needles will be made into mulch to fertilise Southwarks green spaces. And the tree trunks cut into tiny matchsticks to make little toys for all of the orphans of the area. Er well...Perhaps not that bit.


But I will be doing this for the first time this year. I'm getting a lot of recycling statisfaction these days. Especially when I managed to cut my weekly black bin bag fulls by 50% (although I can do much better). And I started thinking that if everyone did that....

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Hmmmm



Ideally, we would have some kind of visual record. I'm thinking along the lines of a Tim Burton film where the camera is 200 feet in the air, Danny Elfman soundtrack playing, and you can see scores of people descending Barry and Friern Rd, scores more from East Dulwich Grove, Adys Rd etc, all looking like Oompah Loompas from this distance - before they all shrug a now-lifeless tress on the pyre


Actually it sounds more like Farenheit 451 (the book) crossed with Lemmings (the game) when I put it like that but still



I'm thinking about this too much - I'm aiming to hit the Rye at 8 and the pub as soon thereafter as possible

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S & MrB - we may just join you in that.. OUrs has been out the front since the 27th (had to make room for two aussie girls as you know) and I cant bear to look at it anymore and the prospect of it not being collected so will get the lovely jaws to help me (ok carry for me) the tree to the park and then we will stop in for a quickie ;-)
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