Christmas Tree Recycling in Barnet & Hertfordshire: Your January Options
Drop-off points, council collections and our own January collection service - every way to recycle a real Christmas tree around Barnet and Herts.
A real Christmas tree only stays the greener choice if it's recycled - chipped into mulch or composted - rather than sent to landfill. Around Barnet and Hertfordshire you have three good options each January.
1. Our collection service (the no-needles-in-the-car option)
Add January Collection & Recycling to your order at checkout and we'll come and take the tree away in the first half of January, then chip it for mulch. No dismantling the back seat, no trail of needles down the hallway and through the car boot. It's available across our whole delivery area - Barnet, North London, Enfield, Hertfordshire and West Essex. Details on our collection and recycling page.
2. Council collection and drop-off points
Most local councils - including Barnet, Enfield, Hertsmere and the Hertfordshire districts - run January tree recycling, either as a kerbside garden-waste collection or via drop-off points in local parks. Schemes change year to year, so check your council's website in late December for that January's arrangements. Two tips that apply everywhere: strip off all decorations, lights and tinsel, and never leave the tree in a plastic bag.
3. Charity collection schemes
Several hospices and charities around London and Hertfordshire run donate-and-collect schemes in early January - you make a donation and volunteers collect your tree for chipping. They're a lovely way to turn the tree's last act into a good one; local hospices usually announce their schemes in December.
What about pot-grown trees?
Nothing to recycle - that's the point. A pot-grown living tree goes back outside in January and comes in again next year. If you're tired of the January tree shuffle entirely, it's the answer.
Whatever you do - don't landfill it
A landfilled tree decomposes without oxygen and gives off methane, multiplying its carbon footprint several times over. Chipped or composted, the same tree's footprint is tiny. One small January errand makes the whole real-tree choice properly green.