Real Christmas tree recycling points
Westminster has over 25 recycling points for real Christmas trees. You can take your tree to a drop-off point from the start of Thursday 26 December 2024 to the end of the day Sunday 19 January 2025.
Opening hours are 8am to 8pm unless they are in parks, which close at 4.30pm.
Please remove all decorations, stands and netting from the tree before bringing it to a recycling point. Only trees taken to recycling points will be recycled and turned into woodchip and soil improver.
A map displaying all our real recycling tree recycling drop-off points will shortly be live.
Changes to your rubbish collections over Christmas
Find out more about changes to collections over Christmas and New Year
Tips for a greener Christmas
There are so many things you can do to have a more sustainable Christmas. Our partners at Veolia have shared some of their top tips:
- Reuse your wrapping paper and cards by cutting them up to make gift tags for next year.
- All your jars, from cranberry sauce to mincemeat, can be recycled. Just give them a rinse and recycle with your other glass. No need to remove the labels, they will come off in the recycling process.
- Save on wrapping paper by wrapping your gifts within a gift with decorative scarves or cutting squares out of old garments that would have otherwise ended up in the bin.
- Not sure if your wrapping paper can be recycled? Try the scrunch test. Simply scrunch the paper into a ball and if it stays scrunched up pop it in your recycling bin.
