NBR - Old Christmas Lights - Don't throw them out!

Recycle them!  This was in my company newsletter today, thought I would share...

Christmas Lights ? Don?t throw them out!!!

There are many organizations that offer recycling of Christmas Lights instead of throwing them out and having them end up in a landfill.  One such program, the Christmas Light Source Recycling Program, has partnered with a local recycling company who will take broken/unusable lights and recycle the copper, glass and plastic. They pay a small amount per pound of lights - like the money you get for aluminum cans ? and use the proceeds to purchase Usborne books that will be donated to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.

Since Usborne Books offers a 50% match on donations, for every $100 in proceeds from Christmas lights recycling, $150 in fun, educational children's books will be purchased and donated to the Dallas/Fort Worth Marine Toys for Tots center.

Here's how you can participate in this program to get your lights recycled, get a discount on an order of Christmas lights and benefit children at Christmas time:

1. Take your old, broken Christmas lights and box them up in as small a box that will accommodate the lights and send them in the cheapest and slowest way to:

Christmas Light Source Recycling Program
1923 6th Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76110