- Investment to improve Barnes’ shopping scene
- One way cycling reminder
- Keeping our borough safe during the Olympics
- New powers sought to control mooring
- Dignity Action Day 2012
- Good Wood makes great art
- Would you like to run your local library?
- Improving graves at East Sheen cemetery
- Council agrees Capital Funding programme
- Outer London Funding – work still continue
- Tea and Tango in Twickenham
- Dance fever set to hit the borough
- Final reminder to reclaim wrongly issued PCNs
- Get ready to (street) party for Queen’s jubilee
- Schools grant greeted with delight by Council
- All aboard for Richmond station improvements
- Council to spend £10.4m to expand four primaries
- Uplift spotlight turns to Hampton North
- Green Flag Award hope for Crane Park
- Youth events to discuss Twickenham Youth provision
- Parents to have their say about Catholic Secondary School
- Bills cut by £80,000 in Low Carbon Zone
- Mouse droppings lead to £10k fine for baker
- Gritters ready for winter issued
- Royal Connections project call for volunteers
- New guide an essential tool to support local shops
- Green fingered grant for local charity
- Keeping Richmond warm this winter
- Mayor to celebrate Scots’ history
- Last chance to see Art in Motion exhibition at Twickenham Gallery
- Chance to get arty in Mortlake
- Call for local artists to open studios
- Did you resolve to get fit for 2012?
- Tangley is home to new family centre
- Young people asked about the future of Twickenham youth provision
- Latest move on Clifden School site
- Saved Windham Croft Centre 'back in business'
- Cracking down on Blue Badge fraud
- New Cabinet member announced
- Recycle Christmas trees
Release Date: 03/01/2012
Recycle Christmas trees and help save public money
When people take down their Christmas decorations they can use the Council’s free tree collection service to have it taken away and recycled and at the same time help to save public money.
The Christmas tree collection service for 2012 will run from 9 - 21 January, with trees being taken away on the same day as the usual recycling collection dates. Every tree collected during those dates will be recycled and not sent to landfill, helping to keep the Borough’s landfill costs down.
People who want a tree collected should strip off decorations stands or pots and leave the bare tree out on their usual collection day next to their recycling containers.
Cllr Virginia Morris, Richmond Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “I hope local people will use the collection service so we can recycle the trees. The Council has to pay around £100 per tonne for waste sent to landfill sites, so by recycling trees we can cut down how much we have to pay and the trees are recycled into a compost. We have committed to using every penny of public money as if it were our own, and this is an easy way residents can help us.”
Last year around 20,000 trees were recycled and due to demand it is unlikely all trees will be collected at the same time. Residents whose trees are not taken away the first time they are put out should put them out again on the next collection day.
Residents can also drop off trees for recycling at the Townmead Road reuse and recycling centre, or at Wickes car park in South Road, Twickenham or Squires Garden Centre, in Sixth Cross Road, Twickenham.
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