Sustainably recycle your Christmas Tree
Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity has launched its annual Christmas tree recycling service sponsored by Waste Management Facilities.
The charity has now been collecting Christmas Trees from the local community to be sustainably recycled to raise money for the disability charity for over 10 years.
Bookings are now being taken to have your Christmas tree collected between Thursday 8 January and Sunday 11 January 2026 from Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset and Ringwood.
Francesca Potton, community fundraiser at Diverse Abilities, commented: “We’re thrilled to see the return of our Treecycling service for another year. It’s one of our biggest fundraisers of the year, and a real community effort. By booking to have your Christmas tree collected by Diverse Abilities you can help us raise vital funds to run our services that support children and adults with disabilities across Dorset.”
Collections can be booked online for a suggested £10 donation, and the charity’s team of volunteers will take to the roads of Dorset over the collection weekend in January to ensure the trees are disposed of sustainably and recycled into wood chippings.
Lisa Delahunty, managing director at Waste Management Facilities Limited, commented: “We’re thrilled to continue working with Diverse Abilities on their Treecycling project again. We will be helping over the collection weekend with the logistics and providing a volunteer team, to collect Christmas trees and raise money to support programmes for children and adults with disabilities across Dorset.”
Diverse Abilities is also recruiting volunteers to help the Treecycling team to collect and recycle Christmas trees. Families and businesses with access to vans, pickup trucks, or buses should contact Francesca on 01202 718266 to discuss how to get involved and help make a difference for the charity.
Visit diverseabilities.org.uk/trees for a full list of areas that Christmas Trees can be collected from, and to book your collection for January.