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Recycle your Christmas tree

Don't let your Christmas tree go to waste. Check where you can recycle your real or artificial Christmas tree.

How to recycle your Christmas tree
Christmas trees.

Gritting, salt and winter services

Get information on gritting routes, service changes, staying warm and more during cold weather.

Get information on winter services
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Money, debt and benefit advice

Find resources and advice to help with your benefits, including Pension Credit. You can also find support if you can't afford your energy bills, money or debts.

Get help and advice on money, debt and benefits
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Changes to plastic recycling

From Monday, 14 October 2024, you can put a wider range of plastics in your mixed recycling bin.

Check what can go in your mixed recycling
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Translation and accessibility tools

To make our website usable for as many people as possible, we've added the Recite Me toolbar. You can use this to do things like translating the text to another language, have the text read aloud and more.

More on the Recite Me toolbar
The Recite Me toolbar.

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Fostering in the borough of Rochdale

Fostering is a way of caring for other people's children and young people away from their family home. Take your first step to giving childhood a chance.

You can chat with our friendly Fostering Team about the fostering process and ask any questions you might have.

Find out more about fostering

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A vision for positive change

We’re preserving our heritage and creating a borough brimming with life, leisure and culture.

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