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‘Bring One for the Chipper’ Christmas tree recycling begins

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Keep Cobb Beautiful’s annual “Bring One for the Chipper” Christmas tree recycling event started on Christmas day and continues through Jan. 9.

You can bring your tree to several Home Depot locations—including two in East Cobb, and at two Cobb County Parks, one of which is Fullers Park.

Here’s more from Keep Cobb Beautiful about the recycling event and its flyer with details on when and where to drop off your tree:

Flocked trees will not be accepted as they are harmful to wildlife. Trees must have all decorations, mesh, lights, stands and strings removed prior to drop off. Free mulch is available upon request and free saplings will be available, while supplies last, at participating locations 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9.

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East Cobb Christmas Tree dropoff locations; pickup services

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Keep Cobb Beautiful’s annual Bring One for the Chipper Christmas Tree recycling program starts Christmas Day and ends next Saturday, Jan. 4.

Starting Christmas Day and continuing through Jan. 4, you can drop off trees at the Home Depot stores at Providence Square (4101 Roswell Road) and Highland Plaza (3605 Sandy Plains Road).

On Saturday, Jan. 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the following county parks in East Cobb will serve as drop-off locations:

  • Fullers Park (3499 Robinson Road)
  • Sewell Park (2055 Lower Roswell Road)
  • Noonday Park (489 Hawkins Store Road)

When you bring a tree you’ll get a free sapling, as long as supplies last.

No flocked trees will be accepted, and all trees must have decorations, mesh, lights, stands, strings and other items removed.

Free mulch also is available; for more information, call 770-528-1135 or visit keepcobbbeautiful.org.

An East Cobb boy scout troop is collecting trees this Saturday, Jan. 28, and next Saturday, Jan. 4, as a fundraising project.

It’s Troop 565, which meets at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, and they’ll be making curbside pickups those days starting at 8 a.m. within the Walton, Wheeler, Pope, Lassiter and Sprayberry attendance zones.

The cost for the retrieval is $25 a tree, and they’re asking that you sign up here for the service. The donations are tax-deductible and the proceeds go toward troop programs.

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Bring One for the Chipper recycling program returns to East Cobb locations

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Christmas is still another week or so away but Keep Cobb Beautiful is getting out word now about the return of its Bring One for the Chipper recycling program that will take place on Jan. 5.

Live undecorated Christmas trees will be accepted from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on that day at the following locations in the East Cobb area :

  • Home Depot, 4101 Roswell Road
  • Home Depot, 3605 Sandy Plains Road
  • Noonday Creek Park 489 Hawkins Store Road
  • Fullers Park, 3499 Robinson Road

All decorations, mesh and strings must be removed prior to dropping off.

Here’s more information information that’s being sent out via KCB:

The chipper program involves the entire community and countless volunteers. Since its inception, the program has recycled an estimated 5.9 million Christmas trees statewide.

The mulch from these trees has been used for playgrounds, local government beautification projects and individual yards.

You can support the chipper program by bringing your live undecorated Christmas tree to a designated drop off site or volunteering with your local coordinator to collect trees.

As a Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation affiliate, Keep Cobb Beautiful works with sponsors to organize the recycling event for Cobb County. These sponsors include Home Depot, Davey Tree Expert Company, TAG Grinding Services Inc. and Cobb County PARKS.

Numerous local sponsors and volunteers also make contributions and provide in-kind services.

 

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Lassiter-Pope-Kell NJROTC recognized by Keep Cobb Beautiful

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Photo and info from the Cobb County School District:

Because of their dedication to community beautification, students in the Lassiter-Pope-Kell (LPK) NJROTC program earned the title of Adopt-a-Mile Youth Group of the Year by Keep Cobb Beautiful. 

Capt. Jim Minta (USN, RET) and First Sgt. Lorenzo Cox (USMC, RET) recently paired the NJROTC unit with the Keep Cobb Beautiful initiative by adopting Shallowford Road in front of Lassiter High School. Once a quarter, cadets, armed with plastic gloves, trash bags, and neon vests, spend a morning picking up trash along the mile stretch.  

Knowing that individuals are far less likely to desecrate a well-maintained community motivates the Cobb students to keep their community beautiful. The student volunteers are not only helping the local community, but they are also helping the environment. 

Ever since the unit’s involvement along the road, litter within the area has decreased dramatically, according to the students’ NJROTC leaders. The reduction of litter mitigates the effect of pollutants flowing into the surrounding water basins. Both the Lassiter High School campus and the area surrounding it appear healthier and cleaner than ever. LPK’s NJROTC cadets plan to continue to set an example with their clean-up efforts in their East Cobb community.  

 

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Keep Cobb Beautiful recycling grant to expand list of plastics in pilot project

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Thanks to a $50,000 grant, selected Cobb County residents will soon be able to recycle some plastic items that now get sent to landfills. Keep Cobb Beautiful

The Hefty EnergyBag program will allow Keep Cobb Beautiful, an agency of Cobb County government, to divert currently non-recyclable plastics—including a variety of basic household items—for recycling.

The grant, awarded by Keep America Beautiful and Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, was announced last week, and implementation details are still to come, including a timeline for the start of the program. Cobb County and Boise, Idaho were selected as local governments to receive the grant funding.

KCB will purchase orange Hefty EnergyBags that will be distributed to households participating in the pilot project. Plastics that are now commonly thrown out with general trash—such as chip bags, juice pouches, frozen vegetable bags, pet food bags, candy wrappers and utensils—will be collected in the bags and set aside for curbside pickup with regular trash bags.

Instead of being sent to a landfill, however, the orange bags will be delivered to a WestRock materials facility in Marietta, and recycled plastic items will be converted into renewable energy resources. Other participants in the Cobb program include the hauling company American Disposal and other local groups to be announced later.

The Hefty EnergyBag program was launched by Dow in 2014 and the first full-scale program got underway in Omaha in 2016.

“Keep Cobb Beautiful Inc. is excited about this innovative program and is looking forward to bringing plastic recovery options and technology to Cobb County residents,” Kimberly White, executive director for Keep Cobb Beautiful, said in a statement.

 

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Keep Cobb Beautiful tree recycling date is Jan. 6, includes 4 East Cobb locations

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Christmas is over, but you’ve still got time to enjoy your tree before Keep Cobb Beautiful’s annual free recycling event.Keep Cobb Beautiful Bring One for the Chipper

The date for “Bring One for the Chipper” is next Saturday, Jan. 6, and there’s one East Cobb location change from previous years.

Sewell Park is not a drop-off point due to the construction of the new library and road entrance that’s still being finished.

But four other locations in East Cobb return as venues. Two of them are Cobb public parks:

  • Fullers Park, 3499 Robinson Road;
  • Noonday Creek Park, 489 Hawkins Store Road.

The other locations are the Home Depot stores at Providence Square Shopping Center, 4101 Roswell Road, and at Highland Plaza, 3605 Sandy Plains Road.

The times to drop off trees at all locations are between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Chipper program includes free mulch; only trees with all decorations removed will be accepted.

 

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Cobb volunteers, officials honored at Keep Georgia Beautiful awards

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Release from the Cobb County Communications Office, dated Dec. 2:

Cobb County’s tireless efforts to keep the county clean were recognized at the Keep Georgia Beautiful Awards Ceremony in Atlanta. The county’s Keep Cobb Beautiful organization was recognized a half dozen times during the ceremony at the Marriott Century Center.

Erin Mulgrew was recognized as the Keep Georgia Beautiful “Woman of the Year.”  Mulgrew was appointed to the Keep Cobb Beautiful Board by Commissioner JoAnn Birrell.

Barry Krebs, appointed to the Keep Cobb Beautiful Board by Commissioner Lisa Cupid, was named the organization’s “Man of the Year.”

The annual program honors individuals and organizations working to improve Georgia’s environment.

Commissioner JoAnn Birrell was recognized as the “Elected Official of the Year,” an award that honors a state or local elected official that strongly supports environmental and community improvement activities. Birrell had served on KCB’s Board for ten years before she was elected to the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.

KCB was also recognized with a Waste Reduction and Recycling Award, the South Cobb Lions received the 2nd place award in the Litter Prevention category, and the local organization received first place recognition as a Keep Georgia Beautiful affiliate.

Created in 1978 by Governor George Busbee, the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation is based on a fundamental premise that the environmental interests of the state of Georgia and the people who live here are best served when public and private interests work hand-in-hand to achieve common goals.

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Bells Ferry Road cleanup project includes Cobb police chief

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Cobb Police Chief Mike Register (third from left) and commissioner JoAnn Birrell (center) with members of the Bells Ferry Civic Association at Saturday’s Keep Cobb Beautiful project. (Cobb Police Department photo)

Press release:

Commissioner JoAnn Birrell, Police Chief Mike Register, and about a dozen of his officers joined a group pounding the pavement to clean up the Bells Ferry Road corridor on Saturday.
 
The county leaders joined members of the Bells Ferry Civic Association in the effort. The Association keeps tabs on the stretch of Bells Ferry near I-575 as part of the “Adopt-a-Mile” program. Keep Cobb Beautiful runs the “Adopt-a-Mile” program.
 
The group spent several hours cleaning up the shoulders and curbs, finding everything from cigarette butts to car parts to bottles and cans.  In the end, they filled nearly 30 bags of trash.
 
This was the second time Chief Register brought his officers to a community cleanup. “It’s not all about catching criminals,” Register said.  “It’s that partnership with the community that is very valuable and very precious and doing things like this brings us closer together as a community.”
 
“It means a lot to the community to keep our county clean, and we’re happy to show we’re willing to contribute to that,” said Commissioner Birrell.