{"id":211303,"date":"2026-01-01T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:29:06","slug":"how-to-recycle-christmas-trees-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211303\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recycle Christmas trees in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tidings of great joy if you live in Cherwell, Fareham, Gosport, Portsmouth, Rushmoor or Winchester &#8211; those councils will collect your tree for free from your home, even if you do not subscribe to the garden waste service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, dates vary and so do conditions &#8211; for example, you may have to register for collection or cut the tree into pieces &#8211; so it is best to check the council website for details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many councils set up temporary drop-off points for trees in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These include Basingstoke and Deane, Hart, New Forest, Oxford, Reading, South Oxfordshire, Test Valley, Vale of White Horse, West Oxfordshire and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the rest, it will have to be a trip to the household waste and recycling centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Or you can have the tree collected if you subscribe to the council&#8217;s garden waste service and you have chopped it apart &#8211; check sites for details again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tidings of great joy if you live in Cherwell, Fareham, Gosport, Portsmouth, Rushmoor or Winchester &#8211; those councils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-211303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}