Old Christmas trees chipped, not dumped

MURRAYVILLE - At compactor sites across Hall County, they &#34;Brought One for the Chipper&#34; Saturday.<br> <br> For people who chose to bring their old Christmas trees to Hall County compactor sites and the Hall County Resource Recovery site in Gainesville, the reward was a tree seedling.<br> <br> &#34;You make mulch out of them and people use the mulch,&#34; said Billy Little, who was at the Murrayville compactor site. &#34;If you throw your tree out with the trash, it&#39;s gone, nobody <br> gets any use out of it.&#34;<br> <br> Little said he saw plenty of trees and the stack grew bigger and bigger at his compactor.<br> <br> Donna Fisher of Hall County dropped off her tree and said there was another good use for them.<br> <br> &#34;A lot of people take them and dump them in the lake,&#34; Fisher said. &#34;With a bunch of those trees in the lake, the fish spawn.&#34;<br>

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