HOUSEHOLDS thinking about taking down the Christmas decorations are being urged to have their tree recycled – for a good cause.

Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is taking bookings for its annual Christmas tree recycling service sponsored by Waste Management Facilities.

The charity will be celebrating 10 years of collecting trees from the community to be sustainably recycled while raising money for the charity.

Diverse Abilities will collect trees from Thursday, January 9, until Sunday, January 12 from Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset and Ringwood.

Francesca Potton, community fundraiser, said: “We’re thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of Treecycling. We were the first charity in the area to introduce this scheme, and it’s become one of our most important fundraisers of the year and allows us to raise vital money and truly makes a huge difference in our efforts to continue supporting more than 1,600 children and adults with physical and learning disabilities across the county.”

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, added: “We’re thrilled to continue working with Diverse Abilities on this exciting project.

“We will be helping throughout the period with the logistics and providing a volunteer team, to collect Christmas trees after the festive period and raise money for the children and adults supported by the charity.”

Visit diverseabilities.org.uk/trees for a full list of areas that trees can be collected from, and to book a collection.