{"id":66122,"date":"2016-01-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bb77bb8a610f37225f238ddb2ae88aea"},"modified":"2016-01-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:59:00","slug":"press-release-communities-minister-urges-households-to-treecycle-over-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66122","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Communities Minister urges households to "treecycle" over the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the trees come down and the decorations are packed away for another year, Communities Minister Marcus Jones urged people to reduce, reuse and recycle their Christmas rubbish today (6 January 2015).<\/p>\n

Local authorities estimate that households generate nearly a third more waste over the festive season than any other time of the year \u2013 with the Local Government Association estimating it costs the taxpayer nearly \u00a3100 for every 40 Christmas trees sent to landfill.<\/p>\n

Mr Jones highlighted the innovative and creative alternatives to the bin for people\u2019s Christmas waste, praising councils that had set up new schemes for dealing with it.<\/p>\n

Communities Minister Marcus Jones said:<\/p>\n

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From Christmas trees to the dinner with all the trimmings, we can often be left a lot of waste to get rid of.<\/p>\n

Councils across the country offer great initiatives to ensure we are donating our unwanted goods to a good home, meaning we don\u2019t face a depressing January dodging old Christmas trees and overflowing bins on our pavements.<\/p>\n

My message to households is simple: find out what schemes are running in your area so you can reduce, reuse and recycle your Christmas rubbish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Treecycling over the festive season<\/h2>\n

Councils across the country are running a series of schemes to reduce, reuse and recycle Christmas waste this year. They include:<\/p>\n