During Christmas and New Year, help reduce the amount of waste our borough generates by reusing and recycling items wherever you can.
Christmas trees
Between Monday 5 and Friday 16 January, you can recycle real Christmas trees for free through the council, providing:
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all decorations and pots are removed
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trees taller than 6 foot are cut in half.
Collections from houses
- If you live in a house, place your tree at the edge of your property boundary (and visible to collectors) by 6am on your collection day.
- Use our collection day lookup to see what day your tree will be collected on.
Look up my Christmas tree collection day
Collections from flats
- If you live in a flat, collections can be booked by emailing wastesupervisor@hillingdon.gov.uk.
- Please ensure trees are placed next to your bin store or collection point for waste bins, ensuring access to the bins is not blocked. Do not put trees inside the communal bins.
Artificial trees
Artificial trees should be taken to one of our waste and recycling centres or disposed of using our bulky waste collection service.
Cards, paper and catalogues
In your dry mixed recycling (clear bags), you can recycle greeting cards, wrapping paper and catalogues.
Please note: Glitter and foil cannot be recycled and will contaminate materials during the recycling process. If something has glitter or foil on it, remember to put it in your general waste.
Food waste
Don't throw away leftovers - why not freeze them or try out a new recipe and create a new dish?
Food waste can also be recycled using our food waste recycling scheme.
During these cold winter months, if you line the caddy with compostable corn starch bags or newspaper, it will help keep the caddy clean and stop the food from freezing to the inside of the caddy.