Turn Your Pine into Power with Treecycle

This Christmas, our goal is to recycle 10,000 Christmas trees across Glasgow to prevent them from filling up our parks and landfills. Join us in giving your tree a second purpose, reducing our city’s environmental impact, and supporting a more sustainable Glasgow.

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The Treecycling process

STEP ONE

Remove all decoration from your tree and place outside your property for collection

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STEP TWO

We collect your tree and transport them to our recycling facility for mulching into biomass pellets

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STEP THREE

The pellets are then used as eco-friendly fuel for heating biomass boilers across homes in Scotland

Why use Treecycle?

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Environmental Perspective

  1. Reducing waste in landfills - Each January, around 160,000 tons of Christmas trees are dumped in the UK

  2. Rotting trees - Rotting Christmas trees produce methane, which is 30 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2

  3. Energy source - The wood from Christmas trees in the UK could fuel 16,000 homes for an entire year

  4. Reducing carbon footprint - Christmas is a wonderful time which unfortunately produces a lot of waste. Recycling your Christmas tree will help reduce its environmental impact

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Glasgow’s Perspective

  1. Reduce waste in landfills - Between 60,000 to 80,000 Christmas trees are dumped in Glasgow each January

  2. Saves council time and resources - Reducing clearing up costs decreases the burden on the council, freeing other resources

  3. Promoting sustainability - Re-purposing trees as biomass for renewable energy contributes to Glasgow’s sustainability goals

  4. Circular Economy - A local problem solved with a local sustainable solution

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  1. Hassle-free and time saving - We collect from outside your house, saving you trouble of disposal

  2. Keeping you car clean and avoiding heavy lifting - No mess, no bugs, and no heavy lifting required. Leave it to use to deal with.

  3. Environmentally conscious choice - Your Christmas tree gets a valuable second life as a source of sustainable energy

  4. Keeping christmas sustainable - Christmas trees are wonderful for families to create lasting memories. Recycling your tree will help these memories have a positive impact by giving it a second life.

Your Perspective