How to recycle Christmas trees

ROYAL BOROUGH: Now the festive season is over, it’s time to recycle those Christmas trees.

If you live in the Royal Borough, you can drop off your tree at any of the collection sites around the borough until Sunday, January 19: Windsor and Ascot

■ Recreation Ground car park, Victoria Road, Ascot.

■ Datchet Village Hall car park, Allen Way, Datchet.

■ Recreation ground car park, Haywards Mead, Eton Wick.

■ Church Road allotments, Old Windsor.

■ Recreation ground, Robin Willis Way, Old Windsor.

■ Broomhall recreation ground, Broomhall Lane, Sunningdale.

■ Victory Fields recreation ground, London Road, Sunninghill.

■ Community Centre, Hanover Way, Windsor.

■ The Green car park, Wraysbury. If you have a green bin, Christmas trees can be left next to the bin on collection day for recycling.

Trees more than 7ft tall should be cut in half.

Green bin collections resumed on Monday for week one collections and are collected the same day as other bins.

Slough

Trees can be chopped up and put into the green bin along with any other garden waste. Small stumps can be cut up and put in the bin, larger ones need to be taken to Household Waste and Recycling centres in Langley and Burnham.

Slough Borough Council has also reminded residents not to put wrapping paper or Christmas cards in the red recycling bins. These need to go into the black bins instead.

South Bucks

Stoke Poges memorial gardens in Church Lane will be recycling Christmas trees until today (Friday) free of charge.

Residents can drop their trees off by the big oak tree near the main entrance.