Volunteers from Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful, Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority help a resident unload their tree for recycling
Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful’s Annual Bring One for the Chipper event will be held in January. Over the years, this event has recycled hundreds of live Christmas trees and tons of electronics, officials said.
Residents will be able to recycle live, natural undecorated Christmas tree after the holiday season, and used electronic devices and flattened cardboard boxes, at The Home Depot at 875 Shugart Road on Saturday, Jan. 4. From 9 a.m.-noon, volunteers will be on site to collect natural trees and electronics for recycling.
There is no charge for trees and most electronics.
The an optional suggested donation of $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 results in a higher cost.
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 devices before sending them on to recycling. Make sure to wipe the data from laptops, phones, etc. before dropping them off.
Participants have their pick of seed packets while supplies last, and a selection of native tree seedlings.
Event organizers are, Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful, Whitfield County Public Works, Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority and The Home Depot.
For more information or to volunteer at the event, call 706-278-5001 or visit Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful online at http://www.keepdaltonwhitfieldbeautiful.org.