Last call to recycle Christmas trees

If your Christmas tree is still languishing outside your back door with all its needles falling off, there’s still time to give it a new lease of life. You can take it to the car park at Cherry Hinton Hall for recycling into mulch until this Sunday January 20th.
 Alternatively, you can chop it up and [...]

5 things you didn’t know about Cambridge’s open spaces

The avenues of London Plane and Horse Chestnut trees on Jesus Green were planted over 100 years ago.
Paradise Local Nature Reserve is home to Butterbur, a plant species first recorded 400 years ago, and which has been used by Native Americans to treat headaches for centuries.
There are over 10,000 daffodil bulbs planted in the grass [...]

Recycle your Christmas tree

Don’t forget to recycle your Christmas tree this year. Real trees can be taken to Cherry Hinton Hall after Christmas until January 20, to be chipped and made into mulch for parks and allotments. Alternatively cut up your tree and put it in your Green Bin (make sure the lid closes!).

Recycle for Africa

Cambridgeshire waste chiefs have launched a ‘Trees for Cans’ campaign in partnership with the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). For every tonne of aluminium recycled in the county, a fruit tree will be planted in Malawi, helping to rebuild woodlands and tackle poverty and malnutrition at the same time. All you need to do to [...]