Hospice offers to recycle Christmas trees

A hospice is encouraging households in Wolverhampton to make a donation to have their Christmas trees collected and recycled.

Compton Care has teamed up with the city council to collect and shred real Christmas trees and turn them into biofuel to be used by farmers.

For a suggested minimum donation of £20 and registering online, the trees will be collected from any WV postcode between 9 and 12 January, the charity said.

"It's a help for Compton Care and there's a small donation which goes a long way and we environmentally recycle your tree in a real positive way," Ian Groom, from the hospice, said.

The charity offers free palliative and bereavement care for people with life-limiting conditions and their families in Wolverhampton and parts of Staffordshire, Shropshire and the Black Country.

Its cost the charity about £14m a year to deliver its services and about 60% was funded through donations, he said.

He said the tree-cycling service was "a win, win".

A team of volunteers will collect the trees and some businesses and the council are supporting them by giving them access to arbour facilities to shred them.

"It's a real community approach really with lots of us getting together to do it," he added.

"I did it last year and it's a real nice fun thing to be involved in."

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