Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Recycling your Christmas Tree + 2011 dead Christmas Tree spotting competition
I know, I know, you haven't even got the tree up yet, let alone had time to think what you are going to do with afterwards. However, if you are lucky enough to be the winner of 6 foot tree, courtesy of HOL, we are also happy to offer the advice on the best places to recycle it after Christmas.
There are three possible ways to recycle your Christmas tree in Haringey, but before you use any of them please remember to remove all lights and decorations.
1. If you receive a green garden waste collection, you can cut your tree into smaller pieces (maximum length 1 metre or 3 feet) and put it out for collection. It is essential that your tree is cut into smaller pieces, otherwise it cannot be collected.
2. Christmas trees can also be taken to Haringey's Reuse and Recycling Centres
Hornsey Reuse and Recycling Centre is open:
Monday to Friday: 8.30am to 4pm
Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 4pm
The Centre is closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday.
Hornsey Reuse and Recycling Centre is located at:
35 High Street
Hornsey
N8 7QB
The entrance is along a driveway between Myddelton Road and Cross Lane, roughly opposite Greig City Academy school.
3. Alternatively, you can take them to designated sites in the following parks from Saturday 1 January 2011 until Sunday 16 January 2011:
Our two closest are
Finsbury Park (staff yard), Endymion Road, N4
The Gardens Community Garden, Doncaster Gardens, N4.
And don't forget, from January, you can join the annual dead Christmas trees spotting competition
UPDATE: The 2011 dead Christmas Tree spotting competition is now open.
Please post your entries below with photographic evidence.
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by 3dabemynv2wyk on
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Is there a council pickup? we don't have a car to transport the tree to the recycling centre
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Claire, do you have a Green Waste collection?
If yes, number 1 is your option: Cut your tree into smaller pieces (maximum length 1 metre or 3 feet) and put it out for collection.
If not, then you may have to carry it to one of the parks collection points-hopefully you are near one.
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i think we do have green waste collection, thanks
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Liz, let's not forget your 'find' last year: New York's Christmas Treecycle Mulchfest.
Looking at New York's webpage for 2011, it seems that their treecycling schemes are similar to Haringey's. Except that:
● Ours run a lot longer
● Given the relative size of our borough and a New York borough, we run many more.
● One interesting difference is that New York takes some collections into city squares.
● New York's webpage specifically invites volunteers to help with the schemes
Going purely by the online information, the biggest difference may be the flamboyance with which New York publicises their schemes. For example, their update for 2011 includes a very short video animation.
Hopefully, this website is not blocked to Haringey staff by the "Web(non)sense" software. Though there are several Mulchfest videos on YouTube which will be caught by the block. For example - a 2008 video from the Friends of Brook Park in the South Bronx .
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Thanks Liz - this was a very helpful post. We have green waste collection and no car so I sawed up the tree in the front garden on Monday feeling very impressed that I wasn't cutting off my own fingers as I did so (I was not known for my abilities in woodwork when at school!).
Sadly, I didn't read your post properly so thought it had to be in 1 foot chunks rather than 3... I was sawing for quite a long time...
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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Very glad that Haringey Council is actually taking trees away with the green waste - I was looking into this recently and the number of boroughs not doing it (and forcing people to take their own trees to recycling points, car or no) is pretty shocking. Camden was one of them - I bet a lot of people won't bother!
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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If people dont have cars to take trees back to somewhere useful, how did they get the tree to their house in the first place?
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I think the Christmas spirit helps them find the energy from somewhere! By now, all that's probably gone the same was as the turkey and decorations.
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We lugged ours by hand from green lanes - almost killed my husband! Don't think I could convince him to tackle it again to drag it to the tip!! lol
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We'd left our Xmas tree in the front garden (not cut up) but they just took it on Friday with the rest of our rubbish and recycling anyway. Woohoo! Thanks Harringay bin-men! : )
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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On my Health Walk in Priory Park this morning I saw the council gardeners chopping/mulching several large Christmas Trees presumably to become compost for the parks in the borough. Is this another service that will be cut due to budget restraints next Christmas I wonder?
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