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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 13, 2010

QUESTION NO. 19

QUESTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

To ask the Manager if he will advise if the Council will provide a Christmas Tree Re-Cycling Service, with tree collection points located throughout the County, in early January 2011, as it has provided in recent years?

REPLY:

The Christmas Tree Recycling Programme was subject of reply under Item No. 25426 to the November Meeting of the County Council

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Following representations from the Elected Members regarding the operation of a Christmas Tree Recycling Programme for the county, the situation has now been reviewed and it has been decided to run a programme on this occasion. However, the diversion of resources to Christmas tree recycling will impact negatively on other work programmes within the Parks Department, specifically the Tree Planting and Maintenance Programme.

It should be noted that the brown bin is ideal for the disposal of Christmas trees and would save residents from having to bring the trees to any other location and enable the speedy disposal of the trees as the first brown bin collection in 2011 is the week commencing 10th January. The cost of operating this programme will be reviewed in terms of any future programme.

The 2011 Christmas Tree Recycling Programme will be presented under H-I 9 at todays meeting.