With the help of  Whole Foods Market, Cenova landscapers, Queen Village Neighbors Association and our friends and neighbors in Bella Vista, Wash West, Society Hill, and South Street/Headhouse, greenlimbs chipped 338 trees on January 7.  The trees were chipped into mulch and donated to the South Philadelphia Older Adults Center.

Elswhere in Philadelphia…

• In Northern Liberties, 223 trees were saved from the landfill
• In Chestnut Hill, 153 trees were given new life as mulch
• UC Green took in 324 trees in University City
• At Passyunk Square, 385 trees were recycled
• East Mt. Airy Neighbors mulched 200 trees for their parks & walkways
• The Friends of Eastern State Penitentiary Park collected 472 trees from the Fairmount neighborhood
• NKCDC kept the holiday spirit alive by recycling 332 trees

(If you’re counting, that’s 2,227 trees diverted from landfills!)

We’re thrilled to be part of such a successful, citywide sustainability event and look forward to publishing more results.

And now, the winners of our raffle prizes: 

• There was a tie for guessing closest to the number of trees we would collect.  Each guessing 341 trees, tickets 543629 and  543641 will receive a $25 gift card to the Big Green Earth Store.
• Also winning $25 gift cards to Big Green Earth Store are raffle numbers 543689 and 543635.
• Ticket number 543207 will receive a $10 gift card to Red Hook Coffee & Tea.
• Ticket number 543558 will receive a $10 gift card to Shot Tower Coffee.

Thank you to  Ruthanne E. Ankney and the girls from  Digging Up Earth for providing musical entertainment and, of course, to all those who walked, biked, and wheeled their trees to our collection sites!