What to do with a bare Christmas tree will be the question of the moment in a few weeks' time.
Although the city council no longer offers free collections, except for those in its garden waste collection scheme, it has arranged six collection sites across the city where real Christmas trees can be taken.
The collection dates are Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11, and the trees will be shredded and used in the city's parks or sent for composting just outside Exeter.
Christmas trees put out for normal rubbish or recycling collections will not be collected.
The drop-off sites are:
Mincinglake Valley car park; Holman Way car park, Topsham; Heavitree Pleasure Ground; Exwick Playing Fields (Western Road entrance); recycling centre, Exton Road; and the recycling centre, Pinbrook Road.
These sites have been chosen to ensure that there is a drop-off point within a couple of miles of as many addresses in Exeter as possible.
If you subscribe to the city council's garden waste scheme you can have your Christmas tree collected free when the collections recommence on February 2 – the garden waste collection will be the same week as the recycling collection.
