Christmas Waste and Recycling Information
Where to...recycle your real Christmas tree
Around 250 tonnes of Christmas trees are thrown out after Christmas in the UK. These could have been recycled - please recycle yours. Download the Christmas recycling poster 
to have this information handy.
Place your real Christmas tree next to your brown bin for collection. Ensure all decorations, nettings, pots and stands are removed - these items do not compost so your tree will not be collected if these items are on it.
In partnership with local garden centres, we will also be collecting real Christmas trees at the following locations (during their opening hours):
• Bickerdikes Garden Centre 
Norton Road, Letchworth
• Tapps Garden Centre Wallington Road, Baldock
• Wyevale Garden Centre Cambridge Road, Hitchin
• Wyevale Garden Centre High Street, Codicote
Please take extra care with what you put in your brown bin over Christmas. At this time of year the amount of contamination from non-compostable packaging increases (e.g. plastic wrapping, polystyrene, metallic wrapping paper, sellotape etc), contaminating the final compost product. If there is contamination in your brown bin we will be unable to empty it.
Where to...recycle your cardboard
Cardboard that will not fit in your brown bin can be taken to special collection points. These will be held (weather dependent) on 30 December from 9.30am – 3.00pm at the following locations:
- Woodside Car Park Walsworth Road Hitchin
- Civic Centre Car Park St James Way, Royston
Please bring along any large cardboard items once you have removed any tape and internal packaging (e.g. polystyrene, plastic etc).
Where to...recycle your christmas cards
Place Christmas cards without glitter or items attached to them in your blue paper box or in a local paper bank. They can also be taken to:
- Asda (27 December – 16 January 2012)
- Marks & Spencer (TBC)
- Morrisons (TBC)
- Sainsburys (TBC)
Please note that Tesco and TK Maxx will not be running a scheme this year.
