Seeing a discarded Christmas tree in the gutter waiting for trash pickup only deepens the post-holiday blahs.
So instead of that fate, the once glorious tree that made your home beautiful for the holiday can be recycled to dress up your garden.
The Keep East Point Beautiful organization is running a chipper Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., to to turn trees into mulch. The drop off is at the Recycling Drop Center, next to the East Point Historical Society on Norman Berry Drive and Lester Street. Also, trees can be dropped ahead of time at East Point Hardware Store, 2891 Church St.
The same day is an electronic recycling day. Start 2010 by getting rid of dated, broken electronics. What is accepted?
Computers, monitors, laptops, servers, keyboards and mice, MP3 players, cell phones, PDA’s, fax machines, small copy machines, UPS batteries, over head projectors, type writers, scanners, VCR players, office shredders, tape players, telecommunication equipment (telephones, network switches, antennas, etc.) AC adapter, power supplies, surge protectors, switch boxes and calculators, wires and cables, docking stations, internal and external hard-drives, tape drives, external modems, electronic motors, transformers, sound equipment (such as receivers, amplifiers, CD/DVD players, etc), computer network equipment (hubs, routers, etc) banking equipment (such as counters, magnetic card readers, check printers, etc.) test equipment (oscilloscope, voltmeter, amp meter, power meter, voltage generators, etc.)
The is a $5 fee to get rid of TV because they have funky metals that need to be handled differently.
Volunteers are needed to help out. Please contact by phone or email:
404-762-5326 or email fkennedy@eastpointcity.org.
404-762-5326 or email fkennedy@eastpointcity.org.
Photo from Creative Commons. It isn't the East Point drop off.
