Overview
- Munich’s waste service offers citywide temporary drop‑off sites from January 7 to February 4 alongside 11 permanent recycling centers, with limited school and daycare intake windows on January 7–9 and 12–13.
- Hamm begins curbside pickup on Wednesday, January 7, collecting by postal code through January 15, with only private trees up to two meters and without root balls taken if fully stripped of decorations.
- Dresden has more than 100 collection points operating through January 10, and residents can deliver trees to the recycling center free of charge until January 31.
- In Chemnitz, ASR collects de‑decorated trees up to two meters via the regular bio‑waste schedule from January 5 to 23, requires natural‑fiber twine for bundled decorative branches, and will send the dismantled market spruce’s greenery to the city zoo.
- Authorities warn against illegal dumping, with NRW guidance citing roughly €5–€30 fines for a single tree; additional options include Gladbeck’s free curbside pickup January 5–16 and Munich’s paid bulk pickup for 20+ trees from January 20 to February 28, while zoos generally do not accept previously decorated private trees.