Chipping branches for mulch or wood chips for compost & soil regenerating is an excellent method of recycling tree waste. A professional grade chipping machine can handle foliage and branches up to 18 inches in diameter, and produce a fine-grained, forest mulch.
A good company such as A-Local Tree Service will offer to remove the wood chips if you don’t require them, we chip mulch directly into the back of one of our trucks & take it away to be recycled into wood chip mulch.