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Recycle your Christmas tree

Take your real Christmas tree to a Recycling Centre or put it by your brown bin on garden waste collection dates in January or February.

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Household recycling collections are now weekly

New weekly recycling service for East Lothian households began from 15 November.

Make your vote count 20 January 2022. Published on behalf of the Returning Officer.

By-election 20 January 2022

Read about the by-election for the election of one councillor in Ward 2: Preston/Seton/Gosford.

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