They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.
It's a very simple program. Just dropping off the trees and they can be reused.
The volunteer groups are wonderful at taking care of the responsibilities.
The Sentence to Service workers transport the trees to the chipping site.
It's not a big problem, but people do it. We've even seen artificial trees, like we wouldn't know the difference.