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The Accidental Zoo wants your Christmas Tree so it can give its animals a treat to eat this New Year!
Grow Limited is also offering collections with a donation to the charity, or the Zoo, the only fee to take away your fir tree and put it to good use.
Both organisations offered collections last year too, and The Accidental Zoo said it was such a success that they're doing it again to raise funds to feed and care for the animals, as well as using the trees themselves as feed for some of their residents.
The zoo is charging a £10 per tree collection cost, and you can select your own pick up date from this weekend onwards.
Anyone who wants to further support the work of The Accidental Zoo or pay it a visit on one of its open days should follow its Facebook account where pictures of the animals are uploaded and details about future visiting times are made public.
Grow is also offering a collection service from tomorrow, with donations also of £10 per tree. That money will go towards supporting the work of the occupational charity which employs people affected by learning disabilities.
To book a collection you should contact the charity directly with details above.
There are also a number of places where Christmas Trees can be dropped off for free to be recycled.
These include: Queux Plant Centre, Le Friquet Garden Centre, Chouet Green Waste site and the Longue Hougue Waste Recycling Facility.
Those trees will be shredded and then composted along with all of the island’s other green waste before being processed into a soil conditioner. The soil conditioner will then be available for anyone to collect, free of charge to use at home.
"The trees will certainly be put to good use and we hope that as many people as possible will consider recycling them. Not only is it great for the environment, it is also a very convenient way to dispose of them and we hope that having so many drop-off points makes this as easy as possible," said States Recycling Officer, Tina Norman-Ross.
"This could even make a great opportunity to spread good will by offering to recycle your neighbour’s tree at the same time!"
Christmas tree recycling service is free to use: "Just remember to remove all your tinsel, baubles and trimmings before dropping them off," said Mrs Norman-Ross.
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