Holiday Lights Recycling

Update: The Girl Scout office accepts light strings for recycling only during their office hours Dec. 27-30, so call 800-767-6845  before you try to drop them off.  Barb’s offer to pick up your lights before the 30th still stands (see her email below).

Do you feel guilty about sending those burned out strings of holiday lights to the landfill? Plus that extra weight in your garbage can will hurt Wallingford’s numbers in the “Think Green Recycling Challenge.”

Now is your chance to get those dim lights out of your house and to a better, greener end.

Point Defiance Zoo is continuing its holiday light recycling program this year. The program was started two years ago after a 10-year old girl suggested that the zoo recycle holiday light strings to raise money for their conservation fund.

No need to drive to Tacoma to donate your old light strings. Girl Scouts of Western Washington offer a Seattle donation location for the Point Defiance Zoo recycling program. Drop off your unwanted lights December 27 – 30 at the Seattle Girl Scouts office at 601 Valley Street (6th Ave N and Valley), in the block just west of Aurora Avenue on lower Queen Anne.

Or greener yet – if you email me at [email protected] before December 29, I’ll pick up your discarded lights from your Wallingford address, add them to my trunkload and deliver them for you. There’s at least one New Year’s resolution accomplished!

As far as a holiday schedule for garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup,  all will be on a normal schedule throughout the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

The City of Seattle’s Transfer Stations will be closed on Christmas Day, December 25 and on New Year’s Day, January 1.