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 Keep
Atlanta Beautiful, Keep Georgia Beautiful, The Home
Depot, and The Davey Tree Expert Company participated in
the 17th annual “Bring One for the
Chipper” and recycled 834 Christmas trees on January
6, 2007. Atlanta
residents brought their trees to the Home Depot parking
lots on Ponce de Leon Avenue and Sidney Marcus Boulevard
to be chipped into landscaping and water-saving mulch by
the Davey Tree Expert Company. Keep Atlanta Beautiful
acknowledges the media of V103, 1380, WAOK, 97.5 FM, and
640 AM for publicizing this event.
This effort was accomplished by 55
volunteers donating 304 volunteer hours pulling the
trees off car roofs and out of vans from 1251
environmentally conscientious Atlanta citizens. Ten loads of mulch were delivered to Piedmont Park, and 100
loads were delivered to Midtown Green.
Since its inception, the program
has recycled more than 4 million Christmas trees.
The mulch from these trees has been used for
playgrounds, local government beautification projects,
and residential yards. Just as important, our already
over-burdened landfills were not further burdened with 4
million trees.
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During this 2007 Christmas tree recycling season, Davey Tree
mulched a total of 8,600 trees that were brought to both
city sites. That's a lot of landfill space saved by
this endeavor!
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