Save the Date for the Annual Christmas Tree and Electronics Recycling Event

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 on 875 Shugart road on Saturday, December 30, 2023. From 9:00 am to 12:00 pm 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 December 30, 2023 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

There is NO charge for trees and most electronics. The only fee is a $10.00 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.

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 onto recycling. Please make sure you wipe the data from laptops, phones, etc. before dropping off.

Participant 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, Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority, and The Home Depot.

For more information or if you want to volunteer at the event call 706-278-5001, or visit Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful online: http://www.keepdaltonwhitfieldbeautiful.org