Bring One for the Chipper to take live Christmas trees, electronic waste

Christmas is over, and an opportunity to start 2026 out right will be available this weekend.

Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful will offer its annual live Christmas tree recycling program, Bring One for the Chipper, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, at The Home Depot, 1833 Veterans Blvd.

For those who cannot wait until then to drop off their live, undecorated Christmas trees, they will have the chance to drop them off in a rolloff bin that will be placed in the parking lot of The Home Depot on Dec. 26. 

“I like the fact that we are repurposing the trees,” said Chip Wilson, with KDLB. “Most of these trees at The Home Depot will be put through the shredder.” 

Boy Scout Troop No. 65 will be on hand to help unload the trees and handout seedlings. Electronic waste also can be brought to this event. 

People can also take their live trees to one of the following six county collection centers: Parker Dairy Road, Nathaniel Drive, Valambrosia Road, Bethlehem Church Road, Rentz/Dexter Road and Old Hawkinsville Road. Wilson said people will be allowed to bring their live trees to the collection centers until Jan. 10.

“The people at those collection centers know people will be bringing (live) trees and they will show them where to drop them,” Wilson said. “I will get some of the Scouts to help me and possibly the folks at the Hugh Gillis Pond to help me. These will make fish habitats in the ponds that people will be able to enjoy, including the fish.” 

Wilson thanked Georgia Power, Georgia Forestry Commission, Boy Scout Troop 6 5, the city of Dublin, The Courier Herald and State Broadcasting for promoting the event.