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Holiday Light Recycling

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Keep those burned out, inefficient, or just plain tacky holiday lights out of the landfill. This holiday season there are a few options for recycling your old strings of lights near the ‘hood:

Whole Foods Markets:  all locations

Maple Leaf Ace Hardware

Girl Scouts of Western WA, collecting for Point Defiance Zoo:  601 Valley Street (just west of Aurora)

When you donate holiday lights, remove all packaging, twist-ties and rubber bands. Place lights directly in the collection bin, with no bags or other extra material.

For other neighborhoods in Seattle and King county, check out the county Solid Waste Division website about holiday light recycling.

Photo at right is of holiday lights recycled by Wallyhood readers last year.

 

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barbbsea

Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.

This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. Meredith November 30, 2012

    What happens to the submitted lights? How was they recycled?

  3. JN December 4, 2012

    You don’r need to worry about recycling lights when thieves around Wallingford steal yours. Not nice.

  4. John Sammons December 5, 2012

    Apparently NOT Roosevelt Whole Foods, according to their Customer service desk person:
    ” not this year, we don’t have a resource; we would just throw them away.”

  5. Barb December 5, 2012

    Maple Leaf Ace Hardware instead of Whole Foods, then.

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