How To Recycle Your Christmas Tree In Woodstock

WOODSTOCK, GA — The city of Woodstock is now accepting your live Christmas trees to be recycled for mulch. The city's annual Chip n Dip initiative kicked off Wednesday, Dec. 26 at Olde Rope Mill Park and will run well into 2019.

Here's how it works: drop your tree off at the park and the city will feed them into its chipper. The following week, you can return to the park with a shovel from 8 a.m. to dusk to dip into the free mulch. Christmas Tree Chip n Dip continues through Jan. 15, 2019.

If you'd rather keep your Christmas Tree up to celebrate the New Year holiday, the city will host a Bring One for the Chipper event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 at the park. Sponsored by the city and Keep Georgia Beautiful, the event includes free tree seedlings and refreshments as you drop off your trees for recycling. Please note that the city will not accept decorations, stands or flocked trees. Flocked and painted trees are poisonous to the river and animals in the park.

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Bring One for the Chipper is a statewide effort to reuse Christmas trees. Since its inception, the program has recycled an estimated 6 million Christmas trees. The mulch from these trees has been used for playgrounds, local government beautification projects and individual yards.
Keep Georgia Beautiful and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs have joined forces with the following sponsors to hold the 2019 installment of the program: The Home Depot, 11 Alive and the Davey Tree Expert Company.

For questions or more information, contact Marybeth Stockdale at 770-592-6000 ext: 1952.

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