Woodstock Hosts Bring One For The Chipper Event

WOODSTOCK, GA — If you still are at a loss as to how to dispose of your Christmas tree, the city of Woodstock on Saturday will offer a unique way to recycle the tree as part of the state's efforts to bolster the environment.

The city's annual Bring One for the Chipper event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6 at Olde Rope Mill Park.

Sponsored by the city and Keep Georgia Beautiful and the Woodstock Stormwater Department, the event includes free tree seedlings, coffee and donuts as you drop off your trees for recycling. Woodstock's event runs concurrently with its Christmas Tree Chip n Dip initiative, which ends Monday, Jan. 15. Residents can stop by the park from 8 a.m to dusk to dip into the mulch with a shovel for free.

If you're dropping your tree off for recycling, you should note the city will not accept decorations, stands or flocked trees.; flocked and painted trees are poisonous to the river and animals in the park.

Bring One for the Chipper is part of a statewide effort to reuse Christmas trees. Keep Georgia Beautiful and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs have joined with corporate sponsors: The Home Depot, 11 Alive and the Davey Tree Expert Company to sponsor this recycling program.

Information for all drop-off areas is available by zip code on the initiative's website. Since 1991 Bring One for the Chipper has collected more than six million trees and provided over one million tree seedlings to participants. More than 250,000 trees were recycled last year during the program, the state says produces tangible environmental benefits.

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

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