Swat Tree Service
"Green" practices
Since we are a cut-and-carry tree service your property will not have a stack of tree trunks sitting at the curb, waiting days or sometimes weeks for pick-up. When we finish at your home everything that we cut will have been either chipped or loaded into one of our trucks and hauled to a green waste processing facility. "What is that?" you might ask.
Nothing that we chip goes to a landfill. Diversion from the traditional waste stream is very important to us. There is a network of facilities around Atlanta that process wood chips, turning them into repurposed valuable resources. Sometimes customers or neighbors desire to use the fresh wood chips as a mulch in their landscaping, and we are always willing to oblige, granted that they have a suitable location for us to unload.
Wood chips perform several very beneficial purposes when used as a direct mulch: they absorb rain, decreasing runoff; they shade soil and decrease temperatures, slowing evaporative loss of moisture; they suppress the germination of undesirable weed seeds; they act as a compost in-situ, slowly breaking down to increase the organic matter in your soil which in turn creates a better living environment for beneficial organisms, sequesters carbon and leads to future plantings in the area thriving from the resulting humus added to our Georgia red clay.
If you ever need a load (or more) of wood chips they are delivered completely free of charge when we are working nearby. Call or text to ask when we might be able to bring you some.
- Adam Horrigan
