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.
The Treecycling process
STEP ONE
Remove all decoration from your tree and place outside your property for collection
STEP TWO
We collect your tree and transport them to our recycling facility for mulching into biomass pellets
STEP THREE
The pellets are then used as eco-friendly fuel for heating biomass boilers across homes in Scotland
Why use Treecycle?
Environmental Perspective
Reducing waste in landfills - Each January, around 160,000 tons of Christmas trees are dumped in the UK
Rotting trees - Rotting Christmas trees produce methane, which is 30 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2
Energy source - The wood from Christmas trees in the UK could fuel 16,000 homes for an entire year
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
Glasgow’s Perspective
Reduce waste in landfills - Between 60,000 to 80,000 Christmas trees are dumped in Glasgow each January
Saves council time and resources - Reducing clearing up costs decreases the burden on the council, freeing other resources
Promoting sustainability - Re-purposing trees as biomass for renewable energy contributes to Glasgow’s sustainability goals
Circular Economy - A local problem solved with a local sustainable solution
Hassle-free and time saving - We collect from outside your house, saving you trouble of disposal
Keeping you car clean and avoiding heavy lifting - No mess, no bugs, and no heavy lifting required. Leave it to use to deal with.
Environmentally conscious choice - Your Christmas tree gets a valuable second life as a source of sustainable energy
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.