Start 2025 with an eco-friendly gesture by recycling your Christmas tree.
As every year, the City of Paris provides Christmas tree collection areas in public gardens, from which emanates a delicious scent of conifers. This system aims to prevent unscrupulous Parisians from abandoning their Christmas trees in the street, which unfortunately happens all too often.
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Placing your tree at these collection points is an ecological gesture because municipal agents recycle Nordmann and other spruce trees. The conifers are crushed and transformed into mulch, then used to protect the base of plants in Parisian public gardens.
This crushed material is all the more useful as it improves soil life, limits water evaporation and serves as an ecological weedkiller.
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In 2024, 110 fir trees were collected in this way, to the great delight of the city's gardeners.
Fir collection areas are present until January 20. After this date, it is possible to dispose of your tree with household waste. It will be collected by dump trucks. However, if it measures more than 2,5 meters, the conifer must be cut in half.
- 3e district
Temple Square – Elie Wiesel 64, rue de Bretagne
Square Émile Chautemps – 98 bis, boulevard de Sébastopol
Square Léopold Achille – 5, rue du Parc-Royal
- 4e district
Square Louis XIII – 1, place des Vosges
Albert Schweitzer Square – 10, rue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville
Square Henri Galli – 9, boulevard Henri-IV Accessible 24 hours a day
Square Barye (Ile Saint-Louis) – 2, boulevard Henri-IV Accessible 24 hours a daySaint-Jacques Tower Square – 1, bis rue Saint Martin
Text: Katia Barillot
09.01.24
Updated 09.01.25
