Everyone is getting their trees up and stringing their lights now, but do you have a plan for that tree and old electronics after Christmas? Save the date for Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful’s Annual Bring One for the Chipper event. Over the years this event has recycled hundreds of live Christmas trees and multiple tons of electronics.
Recycle your live, natural, undecorated Christmas tree after the holiday season, your used electronic devices and cardboard at the Home Depot at 875 Shugart Road on Saturday, Dec. 30. From 9 a.m. to noon volunteers will be on-site to collect your natural trees and electronics for recycling.
There will be a second drop-off site for trees only at Edwards Park, also on Dec. 30 from 9 a.m. to noon.
There is no charge for trees and most electronics. The only fee is a $10 fee for CRT, or cathode ray tube, television sets and computer monitors. Typical CRT TVs have four to eight pounds of lead in them, requiring them to have extra-special handling when they are being recycled and resulting in a higher cost.
Please remove all ornaments and the base from your trees. Electronics will be sent to a third-party recycler. Volunteers will not be removing any data from your devices before sending them on to recycling. Please make sure you wipe the data from laptops, phones, etc., before dropping off.
Participants have their pick of seed packets while supplies last.
Thank you to the following event sponsors and organizers: Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful, Whitfield County Public Works, the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority and Home Depot.
For more information or if you want to volunteer, call (706) 278-5001 or visit Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful online: http://www.keepdaltonwhitfieldbeautiful.org.