Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing

A total of 227 collection points have been set up around the city’s ten districts, where people can leave Christmas trees and vegetal decorations between 7 and 17 January. Remember to remove plastic decorations from trees so everything can be recycled as vegetal waste.

Leaving trees at collection points avoids the anti-social act of dumping them in public space and means they can be used as a natural resource to improve maintenance around the city’s garden spaces.

Municipal cleaning services will take the trees away, with the city’s garden services transferring them to the municipal nursery so they can be shredded and left to mature before being turned into mulch for the city’s green spaces, a process that takes two to three months. Mulch helps retain humidity and aerate the soil. It is spread on the top of the ground inside parks, gardens and garden spaces in the city.

In all, 9,526 Christmas trees were recycled in Barcelona last year. This produced 183 cubic metres of mulch, which was used for green spaces in the city during the first half of the year.