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Trees transformed (PR 1135)

Ealing residents are being urged to give their Christmas trees a second lease of life by recycling them.

During January people can recycle real Christmas trees at 18 different parks and open spaces around the borough as well as at the three re-use and recycling centres.  They will be shredded, turned into compost and mixed with soil to make the borough's parks and open spaces bloom next Spring.

Residents are asked to remove all decorations and pots and leave trees at the entrances to the sites listed below:

Christmas tree recycling sites include:
 
Elthorne Park (Boston Road entrance)
Churchfields (car park)
Southall Park (Green Drive entrance)
Spikes Bridge Park (West Ave entrance)
Ravenor Park (Ruislip Road entrance)
Rectory Park (Parkfield Drive entrance)
Islip Manor Park (Eastcote Lane car park)
Berkeley Fields (Berkeley Ave car park)
Ealing Central Sports Ground (Horsenden Lane South entrance)
Perival Park (Cowgate Road entrance)
Pitshanger Park
Ealing Common (Junction of Grange Road and The Common)
North Acton Playing Fields
Acton Park
Acton Green Common
Cleveland Park
Southfields Park
Walpole Park (Lammas Park Gardens entrance)

Alternatively residents can visit one of the borough’s re-use and recycling centres at Stirling Road, Acton; Gordon Road, Southall or Greenford Road, Greenford.

Councillor Will Brooks, Cabinet Member for Environment and Street Services, said: “As a borough we have never recycled so much green waste, last year we recycled over 8,500 Christmas trees, this year we hope to divert even more from landfill’.

“We are asking everyone with a real tree to either replant it, compost it at home or bring it to one of the listed locations for composting.  The compost will help us keep our parks and open spaces looking beautiful in 2008.”

The weekly garden waste home collection service is not able to collect Christmas trees.

However, residents are reminded that they can recycle other garden waste using free re-usable sacks which are currently being distributed across the borough.  Residents that haven’t had the sacks yet are urged to continute to use biodegradable pink sacks available from all libraries and the council’s customer service centre, Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, Ealing.  Alternatively residents can order sacks including free postage from ECT Recycling on 020 8813 3193/3194.

For further information on recycling in the borough visit www.ealing.gov.uk/recycling or telephone 020 8825 6000.