"Community" chipper and log splitting

Instead of branches and yard waste and trees downed as a result of storms ending up in the traditional waste stream, shouldn't they go into a separate operation where they can be chipped/created into mulch?

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We are in the process of acclimating to our new house, and are still working towards creating a vegetable garden as well as a compost pile. This weekend we took down a "shrub" that through a few decades of lack of maintenance grew into about a 20 foot high shrub of at least 9 feet in diameter.

I could just take all the branches to the dump. But that isn't what I'd like to do. And there is far too much for a compost pile, even if we had one.

I don't know if DC has what we might think of as a community "chipper" but we should. Including at the dump, where it would then be a great way to reduce the the waste stream.

For about a year, I lived in Mt. Rainier, and there, Mondays are bulk trash and yard waste day. I presume that the yard waste is separately streamed and mulched.

Any ideas?

After a storm around the first week of June, a number of trees were downed in my new neighborhood. I will say that the city dealt with the problems--blocked roads, etc.--pretty quickly.

But I got to thinking, after seeing a small log splitter at a friend's house in Rockville (she is a ceramicist and so she needs a lot of wood to fire her kiln), that the city could also go around and make usable wood/a revenue stream out of what might merely be thought of as trash. Image from Kaiser Tree Preservation Company. Our friend came out with her chain saw and helped us take down the aforementioned "shrub."