If you are one of the first 50 people taking your Christmas tree for recycling to either Hook Garden Centre or one of the Household Waste Recycling Centres on Saturday 8th or Sunday 9th January 2000 you can claim two bags of Hampshire's 100% recycled soil conditioner, Pro-Grow, for the price of one.

All trees will be chipped by Hart Council's grounds maintenance contractor, TFM Estates Ltd, and taken to a centralised composting site, Little Bushy Warren Copse near Basingstoke, where they will be composted by Hampshire Waste Services. Pro-Grow is made all year round at the site from Hampshire residents garden waste collected at the HWRCs. It is sold back to residents at the HWRCs and garden centres such as Hook Garden Centre.

Colin Barrett from Hook Garden Centre said, "This is the third year that we have recycled Christmas trees here. Not only do people get a chance to help the environment by preventing their Christmas trees from ending up in a landfill site, they can also close the recycling loop by buying a product made from the garden waste and Christmas trees recycled in Hart."

Christmas trees can still be taken to Hook Garden Centre for recycling until Sunday 16th January and to the HWRCs at Springwell Lane, Hartley Wintney, Eelmoor Road, Farnborough and Wade Road, Basingstoke at any time.

10 December 1999