Victoria Cambron started the first Christmas Lights Recycling Project over five years ago in order to keep unwanted lights and wires out of the landfills and turn trash to cash for non-profits.
She has issued a call to the community to help continue the project by turning in broken, outdated, or simply unwanted lights instead of throwing them away in the garbage. Don’t know what to do with those old or no longer-working strings of holiday lights? Making the switch to energy efficient LED holiday lights? Recycle them!
Switching to LED Christmas lights helps the environment and lowers your energy bill. ENERGY STAR certified LED holiday lights are 75 percent more energy efficient than incandescent lights. They last approximately 20 years, which is seven times longer than incandescent holiday light strings. They don’t heat up, and they’re extremely durable, too, making LED lights a safer option for Christmas decorating.
And LED technology is quite advanced. The LED Christmas lights include types that have the same warm colors you’d expect from old incandescent lights.
This year all proceeds from the recycling will go to St. Gerard House and Flat Rock Playhouse.
In order to participate, bring lights to:
The Flat Rock Playhouse box office, or
St. Gerard House.