Of course, it is not yet clear whether this January there will be a record collection like in the past two years.

There are still only a few unrigged Christmas trees on the streets.

But on the one hand, the turn of the year was only a few days ago, and on the other hand, those responsible at FES, Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH, cannot assess whether more Frankfurters may have left the city again for this first post-pandemic Christmas party and went abroad to visit family or went on vacation and therefore often did without their own Christmas tree, as in the pre-Corona period.

Mechthild Harting

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The disposal company will see more clearly at the end of January.

Until then, his employees will be driving their daily special Christmas tree tours through the Frankfurt districts and collecting trees from Monday, January 9th up to and including Friday, January 27th according to a fixed schedule.

If you want to use this service, you have to decorate your Christmas tree, but you don't have to saw it up into small pieces as you would when throwing it away in the compost bin.

On the day of collection, the trees only have to be clearly visible and accessible at the property boundary.

Many advantages for the FES

For the FES, the collection campaign, which is being held for the eighth time this year and which the waste disposal companies believe is now well established, offers many advantages: In this way, many of the conifers end up in the organic composting plant and not with the household waste in the waste-to-energy plant.

In the plant in the Osthafen, the trees are chopped up before they decompose into compost and also generate electricity, heat and biogas in the process.

The tours start next Monday in the east of the city in Bergen-Enkheim, Fechenheim and am Riederwald, then lead to Seckbach and Bornheim on Tuesday, January 10th and to Oberrad and the Ostend on Wednesday.

In the following week, Niederrad and Sachsenhausen North are on the tour plan on Thursday, followed by Sachsenhausen South and Schwanheim, including Goldstein, on Friday.

In the third week of January, the tour starts on Monday in Gallus, Gutleutviertel and Griesheim.

The detailed plan can be found on the FES website.

If you want, you can also bring your Christmas tree directly to the organic composting facility or to the recycling centers of the FES.