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Discarded Xmas Trees ( Already)

Walking along Felsham Rd this morning & couldn’t help noticing Dumped Xmas Trees all across the Pavement!Any Blind or Partially Sighted persons would walk straight into them.There are some very Stupid people in this area!!

Vic Condon ● 2510d16 Comments

What are the Council's instructions?I agree and I have never understood how so many people manage to get their trees home so easily bit can't/won't take proper responsibility for the safe and legal storage and disposal of their trees.  It should be the same with anything you buy.

Philippa Bond ● 2509d

The Council's colections begin next Monday, 6 January.

Leslie McDonnell ● 2508d

Ours has gone back into the loft!

Simon Knight ● 2508d

Jesus, are you a heathen, or what?Everyone knows that Christmas trees stay up until the 6th. of January, the epiphany, when the three kings bring gifts to Jesus.Have you no shame!

Paul Doorly ● 2507d

Yep a shameless heathen who wanted his living room back to how it was before the tree took over (it didn't look so big in John Lewis).

Simon Knight ● 2507d

I havae to admit mine is coming down tomorow, like Simon to allow me to get my lounge back.

Leslie McDonnell ● 2507d

Oh dear, you sound like a ‘treemoaner’.As a committed treemainer I reject the early exit from Xmas!You got to hang in till the three Kings swing by.

Paul Doorly ● 2507d

Love it - I am a treemainer as well. Want to enjoy the full 12 days of Christmas and agree can’t disappoint the Magi after they have travelled all that way

Ruth Pates ● 2507d

Not forgetting the three wise women 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2507d

Very good, I'd go with the casseroles and wine for a week.Could always send the diapers on to Downing Street, I'm sure Boris could use them for one of his kids (who weren't taken island hopping with him at Christmas).If his kids don't need them, he could just shove 'em on his head to see if it stems the ceaseless flow.

Paul Doorly ● 2507d

@RuthAt last, a cultured member of our community.Phew, I was getting worried there.

Paul Doorly ● 2507d

Richard Carter ● 2504d

Back to the original topic, this one in Woodlands Way looks like an accident waiting to happen- particularly as the website insists on rotating it 90 degs!

Michael Ixer ● 2504d

Please leave your  Christmas Tree on your own property and not blocking the pavement causing a dangerous hazard obstructing the way for pedestrians, buggies, mobility scooters etc.Christmas trees can be blown around the pavement and across into the road when it is windy and may cause accidents.  Some Councils have collection points in local parks where they are later chipped and then sent on for composting etc.  This allows residents to tske them somewhere local by foot as well as by car/sledge depending on weather.  The Smugglers Way option that exists won't be close by for many.

Philippa Bond ● 2504d

This was in this Felsham Road today,and it's still two days before Twelfth Night: too many trees to count accurately, but there were at least a dozen in this one spot alone. Quite apart from the obstruction of the pavements, there is the effect on the environment of this criminal waste of good trees - and the British Christmas Tree Growers' Association estimates that around **seven million** trees are bought each year in the UK. That's why we only have artificial, reusable Christmas trees, and I wish more people would do the same.

Richard Carter ● 2503d

This was in this Felsham Road today,and it's still two days before Twelfth Night: too many trees to count accurately, but there were at least a dozen in this one spot alone. Quite apart from the obstruction of the pavements, there is the effect on the environment of this criminal waste of good trees - and the British Christmas Tree Growers' Association estimates that around **seven million** trees are bought each year in the UK. That's why we only have artificial, reusable Christmas trees, and I wish more people would do the same.

Richard Carter ● 2503d