Keep Douglasville Beautiful To Hold 'Bring One For The Chipper'

DOUGLASVILLE, GA – Bring One for the Chipper is Georgia's annual Christmas tree recycling program. Each year, Keep Georgia Beautiful works with private sponsors to organize the recycling event. These statewide sponsors include The Home Depot, The Davey Tree Expert Company, Georgia Forestry Commission and WXIA-TV. Numerous local sponsors and volunteers also make contributions and provide in-kind services across the state.

Keep Douglasville Beautiful will be assisting with this year’s local Chipper Event held at the Home Depot located at 7399 Douglas Boulevard, Douglasville, GA 30135. Christmas tree drop off begins on Dec. 26 and runs through Jan. 4, 2019 for drop-off donations (unmanned); Jan. 5, 2019 there will be volunteers onsite from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Keep Douglasville Beautiful asks that all trees be free of lights and ornaments.

“Keep Douglasville Beautiful is proud to offer this opportunity to local residents for the 17th consecutive year,” Keep Douglasville Beautiful Executive Director, Chan Weeks, said. “By keeping trees out of our landfills, where they make take several years to decompose, the Christmas trees get a new life by being turned into mulch. This mulch is available free to residents by calling our Public Works department at 770-920-3005. We hope families will make “tree-cycling” part of their holiday tradition this year and for years to come.”

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The trees will be recycled into mulch for playgrounds, city landscaping projects, and individual home use, and will also be used to provide habitats for fish and other animals. In addition, Christmas tree recycling programs like Bring One for the Chipper support wider eco-friendly holiday efforts. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, for each tree harvested, one to three seedlings are planted in its place. Nearly 350 million Christmas trees currently grow on U.S. farms, absorbing carbon dioxide, emitting fresh oxygen, stabilizing soil, protecting water supplies, and providing refuge for wildlife.

“As an organization, we’re committed to making Georgia a cleaner, greener, more beautiful place to live,” said Natalie Johnston-Russell, executive director of Keep Georgia Beautiful. “Bring One for the Chipper allows communities to start the year off right by putting discarded Christmas trees to good use and learning how they can be good stewards for the environment throughout the year. We would like to thank the volunteers and families across the state that make this program possible.”

Keep Douglasville Beautiful, Inc., is driven by passion, hard work and collaborative support toward a vision of a cleaner, greener, more beautiful community. With a mission to practice, promote and encourage environmental stewardship through public education and community-based projects within the City of Douglasville, KDB is making a lasting difference in our community’s future. For more information about Keep Douglasville Beautiful, visit their website at www.keepdouglasvillebeautiful.org.

Graphic courtesy City of Douglasville