{"id":174361,"date":"2025-12-08T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:34:10","slug":"dublin-welcomes-artificial-christmas-tree-recycling-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174361\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin welcomes artificial Christmas tree recycling programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running from now until 31 January 2026, Project reTREE is an initiative that aims to recycle artificial trees in Ireland for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial trees without lights attached are often considered general waste at end-of-life, while artificial trees with lights attached are considered electronic waste, making both a significant environmental challenge for consumers and for the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, a collaboration between Balsam Hill, D\u00fan Laoghaire\u2013Rathdown County Council, South Dublin County Council, WEEE Ireland, Thorntons Recycling, Panda and bring-centre teams, means that Dubliners can carry out responsible recycling.<\/p>\n<p>A dedicated drop-off centre is now available in D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown at the Ballyogan Recycling Park. All artificial trees, regardless of brand, will be accepted free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/001f1e8b-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>David Duff of Thorntons Recycling said in a statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working together with DLRCC and SDCC, we are leveraging existing local collection infrastructure and transport systems to collect and prepare for recycling artificial Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leveraging technology that is already used to recycle Christmas light strings, Balsam Hill&#8217;s knowledge of how to recycle artificial Christmas trees and their contacts with processing facilities in Europe are critical to the success of this pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that this pilot will serve as a roadmap for future waste management and encourage the development of recycling infrastructure for artificial Christmas trees in Ireland, the UK, in Europe, in the USA and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Running from now until 31 January 2026, Project reTREE is an initiative that aims to recycle artificial trees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-174361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}