This December our district is participating in the Recycle Your Holidays™ program. The Education Service Center at 4148 Winnetka Ave N in New Hope is an
official drop-off location for your old and broken holiday light strands. You
can drop off lights in the lobby 7:30am - 5:00pm weekdays.
The Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM), in partnership
with the Clean Energy Resource Teams, started this first-of-its-kind effort in
the country back in 2009. This program employs over 200 individuals with
developmental disabilities at vocational centers throughout the state of
Minnesota. Every bulb of the light strand is dismantled by vocational center
clients and then properly recycled in Minnesota. Every part of the strand is
recycled, even the little lights are recycled by another project partner, Green
Lights Recycling.
Over the past three years, Recycle Your Holidays™ has saved 4.27
million kWh with 460,000 pounds of lights recycled because recycling is more
efficient than creating new metal from scratch. This amounts to a bit over
$350,000 in avoided energy costs!
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