From charity ‘treecycling’ to garden waste collections: How to dispose of your real Christmas tree in Suffolk once the festive season is over
Real Christmas trees are the centrepiece for many homes over the festive season, but what is the best way to get rid of them when the decorations come down?
From charity recycling schemes to local authority green waste collections, we have rounded up some of the ways Suffolk residents can dispose of their tree in January.
Read on for more information.
SARS Suffolk’s Emergency Medical Charity
SARS, Suffolk’s Emergency Medical Charity, is offering tree recycling this year to help raise funds.
It is suggesting a donation of £5 – which it says could pay for live-saving consumables for clinicians to use when voluntarily attending serious medical and traumatic incidents – for trees to be collected and taken for recycling.
St Nicholas Hospice Care
The St Nicholas Hospice Care house clearance team is offering its Christmas tree recycling service, with collections between January 9 and 17 in the postcode areas: IP24; IP27; IP28; IP29; IP30; IP31; IP32; IP33; CO10; B8; CB9 and IP14.
Collections must be booked before noon on January 6.
Suggested donations of £10 will go to the hospice.
TCL Landscapes and Grange Farm Christmas Trees are supporting the initiative.
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) and St Elizabeth Hospice
EACH and St Elizabeth Hospice are working in partnership with Just Helping, which allows people to register for tree collections for recycling and make a voluntary donation.
Registration is open until January 5, with collections on January 9 and 10.
For the first time this year, collections from the postcodes NR29; NR30; NR31; NR34 and NR35 will help to support care in Waveney and Great Yarmouth, under St Elizabeth East Coast Hospice.
St Elizabeth Hospice is working with East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) to cover Suffolk postcodes for treecycling, available in the postcodes: IP1; IP2; IP3; IP4; IP5; IP6; IP7; IP8; IP9; IP10; IP11; IP12; IP13; IP14; IP15; IP16; IP17; IP18 and CO11.
For more information and to register for a collection, click here or click here.
Babergh District Council
Residents with a garden waste (brown) bin during January can leave their real Christmas tree, without decorations, beside their brown bin on collection day.
Large trees – trees over 7ft tall or with a trunk thicker than 7cm – cannot be collected.
East Suffolk Council
Residents who subscribe to the garden waste collection scheme in East Suffolk can place their real Christmas tree in their bin for collection.
The tree needs to be cut up so the bin lid is closed. Branches must not be any larger than 4cm in diameter.
Ipswich Borough Council
There will be no brown bin collections on or between December 23 – January 3. Brown bin collections will resume from January 7.
Residents can leave real Christmas trees (without decorations) next to their brown bin ready for the next collection.
Mid Suffolk District Council
Those with a garden waste (brown) bin can, during January, leave real Christmas trees, without decorations, beside their brown bin on collection day.
Large trees – trees over 7ft tall or have a trunk thicker than 7cm – cannot be collected.
West Suffolk Council
Residents who subscribe to the garden waste collection service can put their real tree in the brown bin to be removed on scheduled collection days.
The bin lid must be closed or it may not be collected – cut the tree if necessary.
Recycling centres
Real Christmas trees can be recycled in the green container at any of Suffolk's 11 recycling centres.
Recycling centres are in: Bury St Edmunds; Felixstowe; Foxhall; Hadleigh; Haverhill; Ipswich; Leiston; Lowestoft; Mildenhall; Stowmarket and Sudbury.
