Discover Pines and Needles London Christmas Tree Removal Services. From the highs of Christmas to the lows of January, nothing screams ‘back to work’ more than a Christmas tree left to wither in the back garden.
And while we know all good things must come to an end, we’re here to make life easy by offering a number of collection and recycling options for our London based customers. Unfortunately we are unable to offer this Christmas Tree Removal Service to our Nationwide Customers who live outside of our London Christmas Tree delivery areas.
Outdoor Removal + Recycling from £31.00
Indoor Removal + Recycling from £36.00
Indoor Undressing + Removal + Recycling from £86.00
FAQs
Council Christmas Tree Recycling
Your local Council may take your tree away free of charge. In all the Councils listed below, only real trees are recycled and all decorations, lights and stands must be removed beforehand.
Real Christmas trees placed at the boundary of your property will be collected on Saturday 11 or Saturday 18 January. Please ensure your real Christmas tree has all decorations and tree lights removed, is cut in half and put at the boundary of your property by 6am
Real Christmas trees will be collected from households that have signed up to the garden waste collection service. Make sure you've removed all decorations, cut the tree in half and placed it next to your garden waste bin ready for collection. This service is suspended over the Christmas period and restarts January 2025.
Residents who have not signed up to the garden waste service can take their real Christmas tree to one of the two waste and recycling centres at Thames Road in Crayford and Maidstone Road in Foots Cray for recycling.
Bromley Council will open temporary green garden waste sites for Christmas tree recycling in 2025 on Saturday, January 11 from 11 AM to 4 PM
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Saturday 11 January 2025: 11:00am to 16:00
- Bromley: Norman Park, Hook Farm Road (off Bromley Common)
- Green Street Green: Salt Depot, Shire Lane Spur (off Sevenoaks Road)
- St Paul’s Cray: Cotmandene, Crescent car park
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Sunday 12 January 2025: 8:00am to 12 noon
- Biggin Hill: Charles Darwin School, Jail Lane
- Beckenham: Unicorn Primary School car park, Creswell Drive (off South Eden Park Road)
Christmas trees can also be recycled at Waldo Road and Churchfields Road reuse and recycling centres (closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day) - please bring your waste disposal permit. Residents who are members of the green garden waste wheelie bin collection service can use this service to recycle their real Christmas trees. Trees must be put in the bins for recycling and broken down if necessary.
Christmas trees can be recycled at recycling points across Camden. The recycling points will be open from 2 to 12 January 2025. Visit the website to find your nearest recycling point.
Croydon
Put your real Christmas tree out by Monday 6 January 2025 and we will collect it as soon as possible. You must remove all the decorations and place your tree as close to the boundary of your property as possible.
You can also take your tree to be recycled at one of the council’s household reuse and recycle centres or if you subscribe to the garden waste collection service you can cut the tree down and put it in your garden waste.
Enfield
If you have subscribed to the garden waste collection service, you can place your real Christmas tree out for collection on your scheduled garden waste collection day. You must remove all decorations, pots and turf from your tree as these cannot be recycled. If your tree is taller than 6ft, please cut it into smaller pieces (otherwise it cannot be collected) or take it to one of the parks listed below.
This year North London Hospice are introducing a free Christmas tree recycling service to selected postcodes in Enfield. For more information visit North London Hospice.
Christmas tree recycling at parks
Until 12 January 2025, trees can be taken to:
- the car park at Firs Farm Park, Firs Lane
- Albany Park
- Bury Lodge Gardens
- Bush Hill Park
- Durants Park
- Grovelands Park
- Jubilee Park
- Tottenhall Sports Ground
- Town Park
- Trent Park
Please leave trees inside the park gates for collection.
Christmas trees can also be taken to Barrowell Green Recycling Centre and the Edmonton Eco Park. Booking may be required – please check online.
Greenwich
Greenwich Council will collect real Christmas trees as part of the weekly collection service. To arrange for collection, place the tree outside the front of your home before 6 AM. If you live in a block or estate with communal bins, leave the tree by the bin store 2025.
Trees will be collected from your home from December to March 2024 on your rubbish and recycling day. Put your tree out on the front boundary of your property by 6am, with all decorations removed. If you live in a block or estate, leave it next to your communal bins (not inside them), making sure you do not block access to the bins. If you don’t have garden waste collections you can take your tree to one of four drop-off points from 2 to 31 January 2024:
- Bishops Park (next to cafe, Bishops Park Road/Stevenage Road entrance)
- Cathnor Park (next to the play area, Greenside Road)
- Fulham Palace Road Cemetery (opposite Queensmill Road)
- Loris Road Community Gardens (Batoum Gardens)
- New King's Road (on edge of Eel Brook Common)
- Normand Park (opposite Lillie Road entrance)
- Ravenscourt Park (by football pitch, access by foot via Ravenscourt Park Road)
- South Park (hard standing next to cricket nets, access by foot via Woolneigh Street)
- Wormholt Park (Sawley Road entrance)
- Wormwood Scrubs car park (off Scrubs Lane)
Real Christmas tree collections
If you are subscribed to the garden waste service, the collection team will collect your Christmas tree on your regular garden waste collection day. You must:
- remove all decorations
- place your tree at the front of your property by 6am
If you live in a block with garden waste collections:
- place your tree next to the garden waste bin
- make sure you do not block access to the bins
You can also arrange a collection through the bulky waste service from 27 December.
Drop-off locations for real Christmas trees
From 2 January to 31 January, you can drop off your real Christmas tree at any of the following locations:
Clissold Park
Drop-off point:
- recycling bay by Queen Elizabeth entrance
Opening hours:
- 7:30 am to 5pm every day
No vehicle access.
- car park
Opening hours:
- 7am to 4:30pm every day
- car park
Opening hours:
- 7.30am to 5pm every day
- Millfields Road, E5 0AR, by the front entrance
Opening hours:
- Monday to Friday, 8am to 3pm
- Saturday, 8am to 12pm
- Downs Road entrance, by the railway line
Opening hours:
- open 24 hours a day
No vehicle access.
Free Christmas tree recycling collection
If you normally get an on-street rubbish collection, simply leave your tree where you'd leave your rubbish.
Please make sure:
- it is a REAL tree
- it is clearly visible
- it is not obstructing the pavement
- all decorations and pots are removed.
Please put your tree out for collection before 7am on your regular collection day between Thursday 2 January and Wednesday 22 January 2024.
Designated Christmas tree drop-off points
Or you can take your tree to one of the designated drop-off points below.
- Bishops Park (next to cafe, Bishops Park Road/Stevenage Road entrance)
- Cathnor Park (next to the play area, Greenside Road)
- Fulham Palace Road Cemetery (opposite Queensmill Road)
- Loris Road Community Gardens (Batoum Gardens)
- New Kings Road (on edge of Eelbrook Common)
- Normand Park (opposite Lillie Road entrance)
- Ravenscourt Park (by football pitch, access by foot via Ravenscourt Park Road)
- South Park (hard standing in front of the wildlife area, access by foot via Woolneigh Street)
- Wormholt Park (Sawley Road entrance)
- Wormwood Scrubs car park (off Scrubs Lane)
We can collect your tree for free. Leave the tree in a visible and accessible location in your front garden on collection day, ideally next to your bin(s). Our food/garden waste collection crews will pick it up.
Trees over 3 feet long (1 metre) should be cut in half otherwise we cannot collect them, as they will damage the vehicles.
Communal bins
Leave your tree next to your communal waste container. You can do this until the end of January.
Trees over 3 feet long (1 metre) should be cut in half.
If you live in a block with a communal chute, please do not put your Christmas tree down the chute.
Western Road reuse and recycling centre
You can take your tree to Haringey's reuse and recycling centre in Wood Green.
If you are going to the centre in a van or trailer, you need to pre-book your visit. See the North London Waste Authority website for detailsExternal link.
Opening times:
- Monday to Sunday – 9am to 4pm
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day – closed
Drop-off sites in Haringey parks
You can take your tree to designated sites in the following parks from 26 December 2024 to 12 January 2025:
- Bruce Castle Park – staff depot near Lordship Lane entrance
- Downhills Park – Downhills Park Road/Keston Road entrance
- Finsbury Park – Endymion Road entrance (on left of entry)
- OR Tambo Recreation Ground - Bidwell Gate (backing onto Sunshine Garden Centre)
- Priory Park – at the old bowling green, Priory Road main entrance (see the Priory Park location on Google MapsExternal link)
Please only drop off your Christmas trees at the designated site within the park (marked with signs).
The Gardens Residents Association (GRA) community garden
The Gardens community garden will have a Christmas tree recycling point where you can recycle your whole tree.
Opening times: Thursday 2 January to Friday 24 January 2025, 9am to 4pm.
Address: The Gardens Community Garden (GRA), Doncaster Gardens (off Stanhope Gardens), N4 1HX
In Hillingdon, you can recycle your real Christmas tree between Monday, January 6 and Friday, January 17, 2025:
- How to book: Email wastesupervisor@hillingdon.gov.uk to book a collection
- Where to place: Put your tree next to your bin store or collection point, making sure it doesn't block access to the bins
- What not to do: Don't put your tree inside the communal bins
- Taking waste and recycling to the council's civic amenity site in Harefield
- Taking advantage of the West Drayton waste weekends at Tavistock Road
- Using the council's low-cost bulky waste home collection service
Christmas tree collections
We are collecting real Christmas trees from properties in early January 2025.
We're collecting from Monday 6 January to Friday 17 January.
You can also take your Christmas tree to a collection point if you wish.
We are collecting on the scheduled garden waste collection week for your road. This will same day, but the alternate week, as your usual scheduled black wheelie bin (rubbish) collection. You can use the table below to find your Christmas tree collection day.
You need to:
- remove lights and decorations
- place your tree at the boundary of your property, not on the pavement, by 7am on your collection day
You tree should be no taller than 6ft and a manageable width for our collection staff.
Christmas tree collection points
If you wish, you can drop your real Christmas tree off for free at a designated collection point.
You can do this from Friday 20 December 2024 to Friday 24 January 2025.
The collection points are:
- Hanworth Air Park: Car park opposite Hounslow Road TW13 6AA
- Hounslow Heath: Car park opposite, Staines Road TW4 5AR
- Redlees Park: Worton Road car park TW7 6DW
- Bedfont Lakes: Clockhouse Lane car park TW14 8QA
- Space Waye: North Feltham Trading Estate, Pier Road, Feltham TW14 0TH
- Turnham Green: opposite the church, Town Hall Avenue, W4
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CollectionIf you have a door-to-door recycling service, Islington Council will collect your tree. If you live in a street property, you can put your tree at the edge of your property for collection on your recycling day after January 6. Flats above shops should put their tree out at the normal recycling collection point on January 6.
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Drop-offYou can bring your tree to a drop-off point at one of the following parks:
- King Square Gardens
- Barnard Park, Charlotte Terrace
- Rosemary Gardens
- Highbury Crescent, near playground entrance
- Elthorne Park
- Wray Crescent (park end)
- Spa Fields (off Northampton Road)
- Tufnell Park, Campdale Road
- Paradise Park, Lough Road/Mackenzie Road entrance
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Household Reuse and Recycling CentreYou can recycle your tree at the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre, Hornsey Street, which accepts green waste and Christmas trees all year round.
The best way to recycle your real tree for free, is at one of our drop-off points. This helps keep our pavements and streets clear. You can use the drop off points below, between Thursday 2 January and Sunday 19 January 2025.
North of the borough
- Emslie Horniman Park (Kensal Road side) W10
- Sainsbury's, Canal Way (off Ladbroke Grove) W10
- Little Wormwood Scrubs (opposite Brewster Gardens) W10
- Kensington Memorial Park (St Helen’s Gardens entrance) W10
- All Saints Church (at the top of Colville Gardens) W11
- Cornwall Crescent (junction with Clarendon Road) W11
- Tavistock Road (junction with Basing Street) W11
- Pembridge Square (entering from Pembridge Villas) W2
- Kensington Park Road (junction with Convent Gardens) W11
- Bramley Road (junction with Whitchurch Road) W11
- Avondale Park (Walmer Road East entrance) W11
- Holland Park car park, Abbotsbury Road W14
- Palace Gate (junction with Kensington Gate – near the sculpture) W8
- Campden Hill Road (outside Kensington Town Hall, between Phillimore Walk and Upper Phillimore Gardens) W8
- Lexham Gardens (opposite Lexham Walk) W8
- Redfield Lane (start of pedestrian walkway leading to Cromwell Road) SW5
- Ifield Road (junction with Finborough Road) SW10
- Onslow Gardens (junction with Ensor Mews) SW7
- Halsey Street (junction with Cadogan Street) SW3
- Cremorne Gardens, Lots Road SW10
- Hans Place (southern end) SW1
- Royal Avenue (junction with St. Leonard’s Terrace) SW3
- The Boltons (south side of the church) SW10
- Robinson Street (pavement area, opposite the church) SW3
- Dovehouse Green SW3
- Westfield Park (Tetcott Road North entrance) SW10
- Kempsford Gardens (next to Warwick Road) SW5
Don't forget to remove any decorations and pots first.
If you cannot take your tree to a drop-off point, we can collect it on your rubbish and recycling collection day, between Thursday 2 January and Friday 17 January 2025.
Before we collect it, make sure you:
- know your rubbish and recycling collection days
- put it out before 7am on your rubbish and recycling collection day
- have removed all decorations and pots
- place the tree where it is clearly visible and does not obstruct the pavement
Kingston
Real Christmas trees will be collected from households over a two-week period from Real christmas tree collections will start from Monday 8 January 2025. If you want your tree to be recycled, please place it out on Monday 8 January and leave it out until it is collected. It should be gone within two weeks.
Lambeth
- Remove the tree from any pot and decorations, as these cannot be recycled.
- If you live on an estate, leave your tree by the bin areas or bulky waste collection areas.
- If your tree is not collected, take it back in and leave it next to your bins again on your next collection day.
- Lambeth Council will collect a limited number of trees each day, so trees take up a lot of space.
- If your collection day is on or after Christmas and New Year's Day, Lambeth Council will collect your bins the day after.
- Blackheath: Changing room car park
- Mayow Park: Mayow Road, café entrance
- Sydenham Wells Park: Wells Park Road, main entrance
- Telegraph Hill: Kitto Road/Pepys Road entrance
- Blythe Hill: Codrington Hill entrance
Free kerbside collection service 2025.
Put your tree out by 6am on Monday 6 January 2025 and it will be collected as soon as possible. We aim to recycle as many trees as possible. Remove all the decorations and remove the tree from its pot.
From 27 December 2024 until 14 January 2025, you can book your FREE Christmas tree collection. In Newham, your tree can be collected as part of the garden waste removal service.
- Cut your tree into sizes that are easy to handle.
- Prepare the green waste by leaving it in tied bundles are normal black bin bags so you know how many bags the council needs to collect.
- Apply online and the tree will be collected within 2 working days of your request.
In Redbridge, Christmas trees will be collected between January 6 and 17, 2025. To ensure your tree is collected, you should place it at the boundary of your property by 6 AM on Monday, January 6.
Designated collections days based on your area. Check the website for when your street will have their trees collected. You can also take your tree to one of the drop-off points between Wednesday 27 December 2024 and Friday 19 January 2025. Alternatively there are drop off points around the borough at the following locations:
- Barn Elms Sports Centre, SW13 0DG (opposite Barnes Rugby Centre)
- Squire's Garden Centre Car Park, Sixth Cross Road, TW2 5PA
- Old Deer Car Park, TW9 2RA
- Ham Street Car Park, TW10 7RS
- Nelson Road Car Park, TW2 7BB
- Hampton Library Car Park, TW12 2AB
- North Lane Car Park, TW11 0HJ
- Barn Elms Sports Centre, SW13 0DG (opposite Barnes Rugby Centre)
Southwark
In the past, Southwark council has collected trees on the normal waste collection day. Check their website for more information closer to Christmas about what plans they have for tree collection in 2025.
Real Christmas tree collections
Our dedicated real Christmas tree collection service will operate from Monday 6 January to Friday 17 January. We aim to recycle as many trees as possible.
- Put your tree out on your scheduled general and garden waste collection day during this 2 week period.
- Take your tree out of the pot and remove all decorations otherwise we won't be able to collect it.
- Put your tree as close to the front boundary of your property, visible to the collection teams and not blocking the pavement.
- If you live in a flat, place your tree outside the bin store but do not block access to it.
Alternative ways to dispose of real Christmas trees
- Cut it up and place it in your garden waste recycling bin if you have a subscription.
- Take it to the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) to be composted. Don't forget to book your visit to HRRC.
- Leave it next to your brown bin: If you have a kerbside brown bin collection, you can leave your tree next to your bin on collection day.
- Take it to a waste and recycling center: You can take your tree to a local waste and recycling center.
- Arrange a large item collection: You can arrange a large item collection.
- Acanthus Road, Battersea: Parking bays at the end of the road next to Grayshott playground, SW11 5TY
- Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Car Park: Albert Bridge Road, SW11 4NU
- Battersea Park, Chelsea Gate Car Park: Carriage Drive North, SW11 4NJ
- Nuffield Health Car Park: Burr Road, Wandsworth, SW18 4SQ
- Tooting Common, Dr Johnson Car Park: SW17 8JU
- Tooting Leisure Centre Car Park: Greaves Place, SW17 0NE
Westminster has over 25 recycling points for real Christmas trees. You can take your tree to a drop-off point from the start of Wednesday 27 December 2024 to the end of day on Wednesday 10 January 2025. Opening hours are 8am to 8pm unless they are in parks, which close at 4.30pm. You can use the map on their website to check the exact location of the recycling drop-off points.
