Overview
- Madrid opened its abeto collection through January 31 at El Retiro and Casa de Campo, accepting only live trees with cohesive, moist root balls and reiterating that replanting in the wild is prohibited under regional and national rules.
- Barcelona activated 227 drop-off points from January 7 to 17 to convert trees into mulch after last season’s 10,268 collected trees produced 195 m³ of material for city green spaces.
- Mexico City’s SEDEMA began receiving natural trees and poinsettias on January 6 through mid‑February at sites including Bosque de San Juan de Aragón and Xochimilco, requiring items free of plastics, cables, nails and other residues for composting and vegetal cover.
- Mérida’s six Mega Puntos Verdes run January 5–February 9 to shred trees for compost in municipal nurseries, with Escobedo operating nine collection centers since January 5 and Rosarito placing a container beginning January 7.
- Ecatepec will start its “Recicla y Transforma” program on February 7 to shred trees into compost and offer a nursery plant to participants as an incentive.