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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Bring Christmas Trees for Recycling This Month

As part of the "Bring One for the Chipper" program Lilburn residents can drop off trees at local fire stations, and the city's maintenance shop.

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful is asking you to bring your old tannenbaums to their annual "Bring One for the Chipper" tree recycling campaign. From Dec. 26, 2012 until Jan. 18, 2013, Gwinnett County residents can take their undecorated Christmas trees to one of several locations for recycling. In Lilburn, they are: Click here for other locations across Gwinnett County. On Jan. 26th the collected trees will be taken to Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville, where they will be shredded. Much of the mulch will then be used to help keep Gwinnett County Parks beautiful. In addition, city of Lilburn residents can bring their trees to the City of Lilburn Maintenance Shop, located at 107 Railroad Avenue. Residents may bring trees here until Jan. 31. City …

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Recycle Your Christmas Tree, Save Landfill Space

Bring One for the Chipper program is collecting, mulching trees through Jan. 15.

Thanks to the annual Bring One for the Chipper Christmas tree recycling program, giving can continue well past Dec. 25. According to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, since 1984 Gwinnett residents have dropped off more than 1 million trees after the holidays to be recycled into mulch. That's around 20 million pounds of trees that didn't end up in a landfill. And much of the mulch was used to beautiful county parks. Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful estimates that one out of every three Christmas trees recycled in Georgia came from Gwinnett. More than 30 sites in Gwinnett — including four in the Lilburn area — are collecting trees through Jan. 15. Local sites: Gwinnett Fire Station 2: 12 Harmony Grove Road. Gwinnett Fire Station 3: 4394 Five Forks-…

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