Christmas trees given a new lease of life

Each year approximately eight million Christmas trees are bought in the UK and of that number as many as six million, enough to stretch end to end from London to the North Pole and back, are incinerated or dumped.

This year Wychavon had a fantastic response to their Christmas tree recycling scheme with nearly 16 tonnes of Christmas trees composted.

Denise Ditchburn, Promotions & Monitoring Assistant at Wychavon said “Thanks to all residents who took the time to recycle their Christmas trees this year we’ve had a fantastic response!”

Residents took their real Christmas trees to one of 8 centres throughout the district, where they were shredded into large skips and taken to the composting facility at Hill and Moore near Pershore. The end result is good quality compost. This can be purchased in 40lt bags for £2.00 from any of Worcestershire’s household waste sites.

Larger volumes of compost can be bought direct from the Hill and Moor household waste site at Throckmorton, Pershore, Monday -Saturday  8am-6pm, Sunday 9am-1.30pm and depending on suitability of trailer or vehicle you can have the compost loaded loose for £2.50+VAT per tonne or you can fill your own bags for £1 a bag.

Denise continued “But it doesn’t just stop with Christmas, if you have extra garden waste why not think about home composting. It’s really simple and very satisfying knowing your plants are benefiting from your compost, by putting nutrients back into the soil and it’s extremely environmentally friendly as there is no transport needed. Great as we look forward to getting out into our gardens ready for spring.”

For more information visit http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/ or call 01386 565197 or e-mail clientservices@wychavon.gov.uk

Each year approximately eight million Christmas trees are bought in the UK and of that number as many as six million, enough to stretch end to end from London to the North Pole and back, are incinerated or dumped.

This year Wychavon had a fantastic response to their Christmas tree recycling scheme with nearly 16 tonnes of Christmas trees composted.

Denise Ditchburn, Promotions & Monitoring Assistant at Wychavon said “Thanks to all residents who took the time to recycle their Christmas trees this year we’ve had a fantastic response!”

Residents took their real Christmas trees to one of 8 centres throughout the district, where they were shredded into large skips and taken to the composting facility at Hill and Moore near Pershore. The end result is good quality compost. This can be purchased in 40lt bags for £2.00 from any of Worcestershire’s household waste sites.

Larger volumes of compost can be bought direct from the Hill and Moor household waste site at Throckmorton, Pershore, Monday -Saturday  8am-6pm, Sunday 9am-1.30pm and depending on suitability of trailer or vehicle you can have the compost loaded loose for £2.50+VAT per tonne or you can fill your own bags for £1 a bag.

Denise continued “But it doesn’t just stop with Christmas, if you have extra garden waste why not think about home composting. It’s really simple and very satisfying knowing your plants are benefiting from your compost, by putting nutrients back into the soil and it’s extremely environmentally friendly as there is no transport needed. Great as we look forward to getting out into our gardens ready for spring.”

For more information visit http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/ or call 01386 565197 or e-mail clientservices@wychavon.gov.uk

Remember there are Green Waste Skips available all year round at the Household Waste Sites, so garden waste can be composted there as well.