Here are some wonderful reuse options that will keep the festive spirit alive:
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Leave the evergreen in your backyard to help provide shelter for wildlife and improve your soil as it decomposes.
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Use trimmed branches as garden stakes and supports for vegetable vines, flowers and bushes.
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Use branches or pieces of tree trunk to make rustic garden edging.
Donate it
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Bring your tree to the National Capital Commission Christmas Tree drop off so that it can be used along the Rideau Canal Skateway. The drop off location at the Colonel By parking lot (south of Bronson avenue).
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Reach out to the Vanderlaand Barnyard Zoo who accept Christmas trees for their animals to enjoy.
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Help create a windbreak at Kichi Sibi Winter Trail! Donated trees are accepted at Remic Rapids, 351 Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway from December through to February 28.
You can also place your Christmas tree out with your green bin for collection. We ask that you remove all decorations from your tree and place it at the curb with your green bin no later than 7 am on your scheduled collection day. Remember, trees will not be collected if they are wrapped in plastic bags, frozen in snowbanks or have decorations. Once collected, Christmas trees are taken to the City’s contracted organics processing facility or to the Trail Road Waste facility. They are put through a composting process or are mulched and used to cover the garbage at the landfill
