"BRING ONE FOR THE CHIPPER”
    CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING

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Keep Georgia Beautiful, along with Davey Tree Experts, The Home Depot and 11Alive, will again sponsor the Annual “Bring One for the Chipper” Christmas tree recycling event. 

The purpose of this program, launched statewide in 1991, is to support the state “yard trimmings disposal ban “, by recycling trees, particularly the glut of “live” Christmas trees and greenery during the holiday season.  Since the program was begun, over 4,000,000 trees have been diverted from Georgia’s landfills and recycled into mulch or used as fish habitat in lakes and ponds.  Keep Bartow Beautiful participates through area appearances by Chipper, the state’s beaver mascot known for chipping Christmas trees into mulch.  Chipper will be riding in the Cartersville City Christmas Parade on December 7th and will also be available again this year to have his picture taken with the kids as they and their families shop for a Christmas tree on Saturday,  November 26th at the Cartersville Home Depot.  This annual event encourages citizens to recycle their live Christmas trees using several options... they can either drop it off at any of the Bartow County Landfill collection sites listed below to be made into mulch, compost or wild animal habitat, or recycle on their own and receive a live tree seedling (while supplies last).  The seedling give-away will be held on January 6, 2007 at the following locations:

All County Recycling Centers - (collections begin December 26  and continue through January 6, 2007.   Seedlings will be available only on Saturday, January 6, 2007)

• Bartow County Landfill Collection Center, 40 Allatoona Dam Road

• Ladd’s Collection Center, 1408 Burnt Hickory Road

• Industrial Park Collection Center, 48 Industrial Drive

• Cedar Creek Collection Center, 15 Cedar Creek Road

• Center Road Collection Center, 684 Center Road

• Five Forks Collection Center, 1214 Macedonia Road

• Stamp Creek Collection Center, 212 Stamp Creek Road

• Pine Log Collection Center, 3285 Pine Log Road

• Casey Lake Collection Center, 4792 J.F.H. Parkway

• Hall Station Collection Center, 638 Hall Station Road

• Hardin Bridge Collection Center, 281 Hardin Bridge Road

• Cartersville Collection Center, E. Carter Street

• Bartow County Recycle Center, 39 Allatoona Dam Road

All sites are manned by attendants.

 This program is supported locally by Keep Bartow Beautiful, Bartow County 4-H Clubs, and Cartersville’s Home Depot.  If you would like to order some of this mulch and can accommodate an entire dump load truck full, please call 770-387-5167.