Christmas Tree Collection

For the past 30 years the City of Lethbridge and local youth groups have partnered to ensure that Christmas trees continue to give after the Holiday Season. Over 1.5 million kilograms or approximately 95,000 Christmas trees have been diverted from the landfill since the program began.

This years collection will take place ​​January 20th, 2024. Please note, we have postponed this from the original collection of January 14th due to extreme cold weather.

We want to remind all residents their trees need to be placed by 7:00am on the day of the collection. They should be in your alley or front of house, based on where your garbage is collected. The fundraising youth groups follow maps based on that information.

All decorations, tinsel, plastic and tree stands need to be removed. The trees must be totally bare to be ready for the chipper. We instruct the fundraising groups to leave these trees so they do not damage the equipment.

Lastly, sometimes human error (missed trees) happen. While we expect the youth groups to be thorough, we also recognize that they're not professional operations crews. Please contact 311 if this is the case.