Recycling Christmas Lights

Keeping them out of landfills

6:45 on facebook live./// if you are looking through your christmas lights and think you need some new ones this year ?

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Communication s coordinator tony benson tells me it's important to keep old christmas lights out of landfills because of all the parts of a light strand.

When they recycle the christmas lights, they take them apart and distribute the pieces accordingly.

Rpu also wants you to remember energy efficiency when purchasing taking a look and finding old strands, old lights, that are not energy efficient.

What do we do?

We go to the store, we buy a new one.

So what we want to do is incentivise customers to buy the led bulbs, which are energy efficient, they last longer, they use a lot less electricity.

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Live in rochester, mary peters, rpu is accepting lights until january 29th.