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Christmas tree collection service

Residents are reminded that Aberdeen City Council will again be providing a Christmas tree collection service, which will start tomorrow [Friday 06 January].

The service will operate as follows:

• Households with wheeled bins – Friday 06 January until Thursday 19 January. Trees should be put out alongside black wheeled bins by 7am on the usual refuse collection day.

• Communal bins (on and off street) – collections begin on 06 January from the following streets and all streets south of them: Beach Boulevard; Justice Street; Castlegate; Union Street; Albyn Place; Queens Road; and Skene Road. Collections begin on Tuesday 10 January from streets north of the aforementioned roads. Trees should be left by the communal bin or beside the communal bin enclosure, but should not prevent the use or emptying of bins.

Those who receive the garden/food waste collection service also have the option of putting their Christmas tree in their brown bin, but it must be cut to fit so the brown bin lid can close.

Residents should ensure trees are at the kerbside by 7am. The trees are being collected for composting and will be lifted separately from black bin waste. This means there will be two different vehicles in operation – one emptying bins and the other collecting trees – and it is likely that these collections will be done at different times.

There will be a fee for the uplift of Christmas trees outwith this period.

Christmas trees can also be recycled at any of the city’s four household waste and recycling centres at: Greenbank Crescent, East Tullos; Pitmedden Rd, Dyce; Perwinnes Moss, Scotstown Road; and Sclattie Disposal Works, Bankhead Avenue.

For further information visit www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/wasteawarexmas email wasteaware@aberdeencity.gov.uk or call 08456 080919.

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