Recycle your tree and win a bin! (From Western Telegraph)

Recycle your tree and win a bin!

Recycle your Christmas tree this year and you could win one of six Rotol compost bins.

The bins are being offered by Pembrokeshire County Council as part of the Christmas Tree Recycling Campaign 2002.

This national competition, organised by Keep Wales tidy and Environmental Campaigns (ENCAMS), will award a trophy to the local authority which has been the most innovative in encouraging tree recycling.

Each of the countys six recycling sites will randomly choose one customer to receive the bins.

In 2001, more than a million trees were recycled, a 44% increase on 2000. However, with more than six million trees bought every year, there is still room for improvement.

TREES

Trees will be accepted at the following sites at any time after Christmas (excluding Boxing Day and New Years Day) until the end of January. Pembroke Dock Amenity Site, Waterloo Industrial Estate: 8 am to 5 pm (9 am to 5 pm at weekends).

Tenby Civic Amenity Site, The Salterns: 8 am to 5 pm (9 am to 5 pm at weekends).

Winsel Recycling Centre, Old Hakin Road, Merlins Bridge: 9 am to 5 pm (10 am to 4 pm at weekends).

Manorowen Recycling Centre, Cnwc, Sandy, Manorowen: 9 am to 5 pm (10 am to 4 pm at weekends).

Hermon Recycling Centre, Rhydian: 10 am to 4 pm every day. St Davids Recycling Centre, Near Henre Farm, Fishguard Road: 12 noon to 4 pm every day.

CARDS

Also, recycling bins for Christmas cards will be available in branches of Tesco and W. H. Smith from January 3rd and throughout February. Last years Christmas Card Recycling Scheme, run in conjunction with the Woodland Trust, resulted in over 800 tonnes of cards being recycled.