Around Ealing Winter 2014-15 | Page 18

RECYCLING Tree tops the list Once Christmas has finished, there will be piles of cards, empty cardboard boxes and packaging lying around. In the corner of a room there will also probably be a tree looking a bit sad and bare. T here is no need for all of this to go to waste. You can recycle a lot of these leftovers. You can recycle your real Christmas tree, for a start. The council will collect your Christmas tree for recycling from your doorstep with your recycling in January. Of course, you can recycle any cardboard packaging in your green recycling box, or your white sack if it the packaging is plastic; while food waste can go in the food waste recycling bin. For more information about recycling visit www.ealing.gov.uk/recycling Christmas and the new year. Alternatively, old Christmas trees can be taken to one of the council’s parks and open spaces. Between Monday, 29 December and Friday, 16 January, real Christmas trees can be put out with your weekly refuse and recycling collections at your property boundary. Tree trunks must not exceed 20cm in diameter or 6ft in height (taller trees can be cut in two). And remember to remove all decorations. Alternatively, you can take your tree to any of the venues listed below in January: Christmas trees Parks and open spaces Once again this year the council is providing a doorstep collection of Christmas trees. On the same day as your usual refuse and recycling, the council will collect old Christmas trees for composting. Make sure you check on the back page of this magazine for any changes to your usual collection day over ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 18 around ealing Winter 2014/15 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Acton Green Common Acton Park Berkeley Fields (Berkeley Avenue) Churchfields, Hanwell (car park) Cleveland Park Ealing Central Sports Ground (Horsenden Lane South) Ealing Common (Junction of Grange Road and The Common) ■ ■ Elthorne Park (Boston Road) Islip Manor Park (Eastcote Lane car park) North Acton playing fields Perivale Park (Cowgate Road) Pitshanger Park Ravenor Park (Oldfield Lane South and Ruislip Road) Rectory Park (Parkfield Drive) Southall Park (Green Drive) Southfields Park Spikes Bridge Park (West Avenue) Springfield Gardens (Rosemont Road) Walpole Park (Lammas Park Gardens) Re-use and recycling centres ■ ■ Acton (Stirling Road, W3 8DJ) Greenford (Greenford Road, UB6 9AP).