Recycle Your Christmas Trees Through Jan. 16

The Christmas and New Year’s Eve holidays will soon be a memory. And once the Christmas tree comes down, you can give it new life by helping keep Gwinnett County beautiful.

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful is asking residents to donate their trees to its annual "Bring One for the Chipper" tree recycling campaign. The trees will be turned into mulch to use in parks and other facilities throughout the county.

From Dec. 26 through Jan. 16, Gwinnett County residents can take their undecorated Christmas trees to one of several locations for recycling. In Duluth, they include:

• Fire Stations #5 at 3001 Old Norcross Road
• #7 at 3343 Bunten Road
• #19 at 3275 North Berkeley Lake Road

For a list of other locations in Gwinnett County, click here.

On Saturday, Jan. 21, the collected trees will be taken to , where they will be shredded. Much of the mulch will then be used in Gwinnett County Parks.

Volunteers are needed for the big shred Jan. 21 from 8 a.m.-noon. Anyone over the age of 14 can sign up on Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful's website.

Also, Duluth city residents can bring their trees to the Department of Public Works at 2450 Chattahoochee Drive and place them in dumpsters designated for tree limb and yard debris disposal. Trees dumped here will not be recycled, but they will be disposed of properly.