Recycle Your Tree and Cards

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The green way to clear up Christmas clutter

Wondering what to do with your Christmas tree and cards now that January is here?

Hammersmith and Fulham Council is running a free door-to-door tree collection service until Friday, January 15. Just leave your tree in your front garden or outside your property where it is clearly visible and does not cause an obstruction on the pavement, by midday on your usual collection day.

You can also drop off your tree at one of the counci'ls collection points, until this Friday, January 8. The points are:

1. New Kings Road: On the edge of Eel Brook Common, by the recycling banks, opposite the junction of Perrymead Street.

2. Fulham Palace Road Cemetery: Next to the recycling banks, opposite the junction of Queensmill Road.

3. Normand Park: Lillie Road Entrance.

4. Loris Road Community Gardens: Hammersmith.

5. Ravenscourt Park: By the football pitch, at the bottom of Ravenscourt Park cul-de-sac.

6. Wormwood Scrubs Car Park: The entrance off Scrubs Lane.

The council says all Christmas trees collected will be sent for composting at a facility in Rainham, Kent.

The Woodland Trust is once again running its annual Christmas card recycling campaign, which last year collected nearly 60 million cards. To take part, simply drop your used cards into special bins which will be in branches of Marks and Spencer, T K Maxx and WH Smith throughout January.

The campaign is being supported by celebrities including actress Judi Dench and Casualty star Colin Wells and his family, actress wife Joanna Macleod and children Rachel, 12 and six year-old Joseph.

The cards will be collected and recycled into newspapers, paper towels and writing paper and the Woodland Trust aims to use the money raised to plant 12,000 new trees.

The Christmas card recycling scheme is now in its 13th year, and the Trust says during those years it has recycled 659 million cards and planted 155,000 trees.

January 4, 2010